Eating at regular intervals essential to good health and less diabetes
July 24, 2008 by Kendra James, RN
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
There are so many diets and crazy plans out there to lose weight. You know the cabbage soup diet, the Adkins diet, the peanut diet- yes that is real- and they all say when to eat and how often. What we need to remember is that how frequent we eat is almost as important as what we eat.
People who eat at irregular times run a greater risk of developing insulin resistance and ultimately diabetes. Metabolic syndromes also can be triggered by such intake. Here is what one study found…
The participants that said that they rarely ate a regular breakfast, lunch …read more
A Prickless Device That Measures Blood Sugar
May 13, 2007 by Kendra James, RN
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
A team of Hong Kong scientists have come up with a nifty little device. A machine that can test your blood sugar without actually pricking your finger. Yee ha! A painless sugar check.
This beautiful little device is about the size of a cell phone and uses infrared beams to penetrate the skin and read the blood sugar.
Out of the many components in the blood, the beam is able to identify bits of glucose through the frequency, or wavelengths, they transmit and the amount of blood sugar present would be displayed on the instrument in 10 seconds.
It blows …read more




