Carbohydrate Counting for People with Diabetes
CARBOHYDRATE COUNTING FOR PEOPLE WITH DIABETES Carbohydrate Counting is a meal-planning tool for managing your blood glucose levels. Any Carbohydrate food you eat is digested into glucose. It is important to eat carbohydrates throughout the day because they provide energy and essential nutrients for your body. CARBOHYDRATE CHOICES AND PORTION SIZES A “carbohydrate choice” is a portion of food, like slice of bread that has 15 grams of carbohydrate (1 carbohydrate choice = 15 g
10 Tips to Start Your 2015 Fitness Journey
Do you participate in new years resolutions? If you are like myself and many others, you come up with an unrealistic goal in an unrealistic amount of time and within a few weeks you don’t see the results you want and give up. According to Forbes just 8% of people achieve their New Years resolution goals. There is actual science behind why our brains cannot handle New Years Resolutions shown through an experiment done at Stanford by Professor Baba Shiv. A group of undergradu
