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Bentley Thompson - EzineArticles.com Expert Author  

Bentley Thompson works with an engineering consulting firm but is very passionate about health and healthy living. In his spare time he reads about health and religious issues. His hobbies include computer networking, the Internet, and music.

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  • How to Make Your Type 2 Diabetes Diet Enjoyable and Effective
    [Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] You don't need to change your type 2 diabetes diet if you enjoy counting calories while watching the rest of your family eat up all the "good" stuff. That would be strange. Sure you don't! And no one loves to think that they have no other option than to take pills and insulin for the rest of their lives, or die. But do we have to take diabetes pills and insulin shots for the rest of our lives? How about eliminating the potential side effects by redesigning your diabetes diet?


  • Four Steps to Lower Your Cholesterol in As Little As 14 Days
    [Health-and-Fitness:Heart-Disease] You want to lower your cholesterol. All this hassle about what you should eat, what you need to avoid, the various medications and their list of side effects compound the problem. Plus, you are overweight as well and you read everyday that cardiovascular diseases kill more people than anything else - even though we have more medicines, more medical information, and more medical technology than 20 years ago.


  • The Fine Print of Cholesterol Medications and Why it Takes Seven Years to Understand Them
    [Health-and-Fitness:Heart-Disease] How many people listen to the part of the ad that says, "drug X is not for everyone?" I call it the "fine print". Now, if you are able to read or hear it all, it continues, "If you have liver problems [already], are pregnant, or plan to become pregnant, you should not take drug X".


  • Are Nuts Fattening For Type 2 Diabetics?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] Food marketers and nutrition research publication could do much more in answering simple questions such as these. Instead we are being made to believe by subtle and suggestive advertising that foods that have been "enriched", processed, and packaged by modern food processing techniques are best for us.


  • What Causes Diabetes and Why This Global Problem Worsens
    [Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] The American Diabetes Association (ADA) says it does not know what causes diabetes. However, even though many major players appear to be pro-economic rather than pro-diabetic, the ADA gives a good piece of advice in their publication, that all diabetics need to pay attention to. It says, "The cause of diabetes is not known, but there are things you can do to treat yourself." - Diabetes A to Z.


  • Get Normal Blood Glucose Levels in Four Stress-less, Diabetically-Proven Steps
    [Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] If you have type 2 diabetes you can get normal blood glucose levels in a matter of days. By combining just 4 almost-forgotten, underrated, but time-tested and proven principles, anyone can safely lower and stabilize their blood glucose level. If you are willing to make a "superbowl" type effort you will be surprised at the results.


  • Your Symptoms of Diabetes Can Be a Blessing If You Reverse Them Instead of Control Them
    [Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] The symptoms of diabetes are not permanent conditions in the case of type 2 diabetes. They are signs from your body that you are doing something wrong. I have yet to see someone who remove the cause of type 2 diabetes still experiencing persistence of the symptoms. No, those signs will go away.


  • Is Diabetes Research Focussed on the Right Goal?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] When reporting results of diabetes research, it is acceptable to say, "new diabetes drug shows promise." You are (however) not allowed to say that ancient practice of using certain natural dietary supplements limits incidence of type 2 diabetes among Mayan descendants. This fact shows the tilt of the play field - not towards the sufferers of this degenerative disease, but towards the drug manufacturing industry.


  • FDA Approves Drug That Treats Diabetes Through the Brain - I Think
    [Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] There is an interesting idea for a new diabetes drug. Only now, they are going after my brain! In 2006, Januvia was the new drug of promise. By 2009, we learn that it has been suspected of causing pancreatitis. Oh man, what if over the next 3 years we learn that there is more dementia - thanks to Cycloset?


  • Why the Talk of a New Treatment For Diabetes is a Scary Thing to Me
    [Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] Reports about new treatments for diabetes keep popping up all the time and most people take this as "good news". There is always a need for developing new therapies because none of the existing unnatural interventions seem to help the body work naturally to combat this disease. These treatments seem just to "mask" symptoms of diabetes at best. We have done so well at keeping sick people alive, but far less in preventing them from getting sick in the first place.


  • Early Symptoms Diabetes - There's No Pre Stage - Either it is Here Or Has Been Prevented
    [Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] If you experience the early symptoms of diabetes (commonly called pre-diabetes), it means it is too late for its prevention. However, reversal of those symptoms is possible with aggressive intervention and lifestyle modification. Proper control means reversal of the syndrome, and is possible even in later stages of this debilitating disease.


  • Try My Diabetic Sample Diet of High Fiber Complex Carbohydrates, Antioxidant Rich Healthy Foods
    [Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] Until several months after I had been diagnosed, I could not use this diabetic sample diet without problems. It contains high fiber complex carbohydrates, high antioxidant, zero cholesterol foods - just what every diabetic needs - and no snacks.


  • Considering Obesity - Ten Things I Would Not Do If I Were Fat
    [Health-and-Fitness:Obesity] While the obesity statistics for America and the rest of the industrialized world are growing grimmer every day, scientists are suggesting a lot of things to do to stop the epidemic. I realize how easy it is to get caught up in the hysteria and overlook the basics... so, here are 10 things I would definitely not do if I were fat.


  • Statin For the Statin Makers - A Satirical Reaction
    [Health-and-Fitness:Medicine] Gretchen Becker makes me laugh. In her January 13, 2009 article, "Suggestions for Obama" she listed 10 satirical tips the new president could take in tackling the broken healthcare system in America. However, the one that almost made me fall of my chair was the 8th.


  • Crestor Reduces the Risk of Cardiovascular Events For Much Fewer Than One Hundred Twenty of Us
    [Health-and-Fitness:Heart-Disease] Those cholesterol numbers can be tricky, and so are the reports and advertisements you hear. The makers of statin medications want all of us to take statins, whether or not we are "sick", i.e. even if our cholesterol level is normal. This is the aim of the study called "Justification for the Use of Statins in Prevention: an Intervention Trial Evaluating Rosuvastatin" or JUPITER study.


  • Why Doctors Think Cholesterol Lowering Drugs Will Solve My Problem and How I Know They Won't
    [Health-and-Fitness:Heart-Disease] Let's start with the money. Cholesterol lowering drugs are the top earners for the pharmaceutical industries. In 2004 Pfizer netted $10.9 billion in sales from their cholesterol-lowering drug atorvastatin (popularly known as Lipitor). It beats their other wonder drug - Viagra!


  • When Walk Wins Run
    [Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Walking is less abrasive, less impacting or shocking to your joints. Why would we want to repeatedly lift our body weight and thrust it down on our knees and ankles? Why would we let our body weight fall with each step on each leg - one at a time. Running can be cruel, especially when we are overweight.


  • High Cholesterol and the Unmentioned Statistic
    [Health-and-Fitness:Heart-Disease] There was an unmentioned statistic in results from studies on a drug to treat high cholesterol. A cardiologist points to the fact that this is common practice in the pharmaceutical industry. But would you feel the same way about your medicine if you were told this little secret?


  • How to Manage Diabetes Symptoms in Catch-22 Situations Harmlessly
    [Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] Managing your diabetes symptoms can be hilarious, especially in hindsight. But you only get to see how funny the catch-22 situations are after you have re-taken control at little or no cost. I hope you won't laugh too hard as I share my experience.


  • Lifestyle Affects Diabetes Control - Can You "A1c" My Point?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] I just got my results from my medical check last week. From past experience, I know that I don't get a call from my doctor's office within a couple days after the tests, then there is nothing "unusual" in the results. It has been over a week.


  • How to Get Better Sleep Using These Ten Tips
    [Health-and-Fitness:Sleep-Snoring] Have you ever had this problem? You want to get better sleep at nights. However, no sooner than you drift off into slumber land, you are awake again. Maybe you have to go to the bathroom. You're still so tired, so you say, OK.


  • The Vegetarian Protein Supply and How to Complete Your Beans
    [Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Legumes are deficient in the essential amino acid called methionine. If soybeans (used to make tofu) is a major source of protein, how can total vegetarians avoid being protein deficient.


  • Four Lessons I Have Learned From Developing Type 2 Diabetes
    [Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] I read like crazy. What I began to find was encouraging. While most literature never talked about a cause, let alone a cure for type 2 diabetes, I remember a few articles talked about reversing the disease. I was "gullible" and I swallowed the news.


  • How to Avoid Dieting and Weight Loss the Wrong Way
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Dieting and weight loss may be a lifelong event for many of us, but it should not be our main occupation. With the right changes in lifestyle and habits we won't need to fall to the psychological fallacies of modern advertising.


  • Why The American Diabetes Diet Does Not Work
    [Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] The American or Western diabetes diet is a carb-counting educational exercise that doesn't let it's subjects graduate. To break the diabetes syndrome you have to take another course.


  • How to Play the Weightloss Game
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] In many cases, our weightloss efforts seem like a losing game. However, weight control should be part of a well-balanced lifestyle, instead of it's primary occupation.


  • Seasonal Allergies and Your Immune System
    [Health-and-Fitness:Allergies] Pollen-induced seasonal allergies or allergic rhinitis affect very many Americans as Spring breaks each year. An ex-coworker named Lori claims she got rid of her seasonal allergy by using a seaweed supplement. Many others make similar claim. Could it be a rediscovery of the joy of spring?


  • Exercise Beyond Gadgets
    [Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] So many gyms, so many tools, this essential heal habit has become scary - almost! Well, how about doing it your way without the gadgets and taking your health beyond the bars?


  • What Happened When My Father Died?
    [News-and-Society:Religion] Every time I go to a funeral I am reminded of several things: the pain of losing a loved one, that I (too) am mortal, and also of the conflicting beliefs about what happens when a person dies. This discovery is surprizing, yet comforting. Join me.


  • In The Bible - Not One Big Bang, But Two
    [News-and-Society:Religion] One popular theoretical explanation of the origin of the universe is that there was a productive cosmic explosion called the "Big Bang" somewhere between 10 and 20 billion years ago. There also could be another "Bang" and Genesis might hint at them both.


  • Don't Miss the Signs on Your Weight Control Trail
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] It seems we are always ignoring the signs on our weight control trail. Even though we have seen what this behavior has done to fellow drivers on the same road, human nature, it seems, keeps most of us spell bound to killing ourselves.


  • Walking to Lose Weight
    [Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Walking in order to lose weight holds more benefits than is readily recognized. Apart from being one of the healthiest weight loss options, how many other benefits can you think of?


  • Weight Loss by the FOLO Principle
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] It doesn't seem fair that the area on your body where you noticed your first sign of being overweight is usually the last place from which the fat disappears. But can you do anything about it? Find out.


  • Lose Thirty Pounds of What?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] When next you hear someone say that you can "lose 30 lbs in as many days," just ask yourself what are they losing.


  • Exercise Pays Cash Too
    [Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] It is universally acknowledged that physical exercise pays healthy dividends. The medical documents on the subject list improvement of cardiovascular functions, toning and strengthening of muscles, weight control, longevity, among other things. But would you expect actual cash to be included in those "other things?"


  • Vitamin Supplements We Do Not Need
    [Health-and-Fitness:Supplements] What did people take for vitamin supplementation before they discovered how to manufacture pills? Or even before that- How did people live before they discovered vitamins? This begs the next question: do we actually (really) need to take multivitamin supplements?


  • Let Them Debate, But You Decide: Low Carb or Low Calorie?
    [Food-and-Drink:Low-Calorie] There is a continuous debate over whether people with type 2 diabetes benefit from low carb diets. Naturally, the friends of the drug makers say no, but the low carb diet makers say yes. If you have diabetes or are predisposed to developing this disease then you had better decide now. But how?


  • Turn Up the Heat for CFS Relief
    [Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] Who would have thought that infrared sauna therapy could get chronic fatigue syndrome patients back to work?


  • Does Sweating During Physical Exercise Make You Lose Important Minerals?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Many people find excessive sweat embarrassing. Some do not like to sweat at all. However, does your body lose important trace elements when you sweat profusely during exercise?


  • Overlooked Antiaging Skin Care Agents
    [Health-and-Fitness:Anti-Aging] If photoaging is caused by UVR, how could the sunlight be an overlooked antiaging skin care agent? The answer lies in the realization that sunlight itself is not bad for the skin, overexposure is.


  • Why I Prefer Infrared Saunas Over Hot Water Ones
    [Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] Who should really care about the preference of infrared saunas over hot water saunas? Well, lots of people, **including** you, of course. In fact, everyone should be concerned. Here's why...


  • Weight Loss For Those Who Hate Fitness Clubs
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Does your weight loss program make you struggle shamefully around your neighborhood? Do you often feeling the eyes of your neighbors silently mocking your struggle to lose the extra pounds? There is a way to exercise without moving a muscle.


  • Childhood Obesity Statistics and Diabetes
    [Health-and-Fitness:Childhood-Obesity-Prevention] What childhood obesity statistics predict about diabetes. Which ethnic group of our kids is the "largest" and does this mean more diabetes supplies inthe future?


  • Natural Weight Loss - A Diabetic Perspective
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] For natural weight loss, you don't need special diets. You need the tortoise mindset and, very possibly, a new wardrobe.


  • Mr. Boomer's Exercise in Pain Alley
    [Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Sometimes it is difficult and painful to maintain an exercise routine. What encourages a Baby Boomer, for example, who can no longer command his/her muscles as they used to do in their teens and twenties?


  • Weight Loss Tip: How to Use Fat For Fuel
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Regular physical exercise (e.g. walking) and a healthy high fiber complex carbohydrate diet are all you really need to normalize and stabilize your weight. The associated benefits of toning, strengthening, and general health improvement that come with this method of fat burning is a huge payoff.


  • Listen to Your Heart
    [Health-and-Fitness:Aerobics-Cardio] Most of us do not think of our heart until the doctor tells us that our cardiovascular health has been compromised. Let's pretend that your heart could talk to you... What would your sweet heart have to say to you?


  • What If Your Doctor Said You're Obese?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Obesity] Being obese is a big problem, but a small investment of time and disciplined action can bring a lasting solution.


  • Do Nutritional Supplements Heal or Harm?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Supplements] Many nutritional supplements are actually processed foods which may be less beneficial for us than natural whole foods. How do we know whether they heal or harm us?


  • Blame it on the Carbs
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] The low carbohydrate option to weight loss has become so popular that we could begin to feel that carbohydrate is bad for our health. Afterall, if it were not so, why do we banish it from our diet?


  • Are You Nuts? Get Answers to 10 Important Nutty Questions
    [Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] In their natural forms, nuts are more difficult to use as food compared to fruits. But nuts are some of natures most powerful foods. Here are 10 important questions and answers about nuts and our diet.


  • Healthy Eating - Is This Practical in America?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Everybody knows that healthy eating is a key factor in our fight against sickness and disease. However, one has to ask the question, "How well are we doing?"


  • Walking as Exercise: Who Told You That You Have to Run?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Whether you're looking to shape up, tone up, or stay fit, walking is great exercise. If you have a lot of weight to lose, don't even try running... you may "run out of steam" before your scale gives you the right number!


  • Diabetes Is Starvation
    [Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] Diabetes is starvation at the cellular level. If we could only find a way to make the cells pick up their supply of glucose again the problem would be solved. I believe, to a large extent, we can.


  • Are You Using a Shortcut to Weight Loss?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] The pace of modern life itself dictates that we take the shortcut to weight loss. It is quite natural for us to want to lose the extra pounds as fast as possible. The irony is, "Rome wasn't built in a day," and it may be dangerous to our health.


  • Use the Glycemic Index List to Help With Meal Planning
    [Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] It is an odd thing when you find you have to start "counting" your food when you are told you have diabetes. Oh yeah! Count the carbs. Well, the glycemic index list is another thing to worry about if you wish to fight diabetes and obesity.


  • Weight Loss And The "Cause And Effect" Principle
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] What if we could find the real cause of obesity and eliminate it? Being on a weight loss program nowadays is almost everybody's pasttime. However, understanding the "cause and effect" principle behind the problem can solve it.




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