Go to Source   To help you Mind Your Body after age 45, take a look at health news highlights from the past week.   When you have diabetes, the body doesn’t properly process food for use as energy. The body either doesn’t make enough insulin or can’t use its own insulin as well as it […]

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Go to Source   One of the best things about the summer is the opportunity it gives you to relax – to sit back, stop worrying, and take the time to read that book you never got around to reading or start that project you always wanted to do. The only problem with most summer […]

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Go to Source SAN FRANCISCO — Adding canola oil to the diet improved glycemic control and reduced cardiovascular risk in type 2 diabetes in one study, while an overall healthier diet reduced risk of developing diabetes in another.   An extra ounce of the vegetable oil daily, incorporated into bread, cut hemoglobin A1c by 0.47% […]

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Go to Source Researchers from Cambridge University, with the backing of the Wellcome Trust, the British Heart Foundation and the National Institute of Health Research, investigated the efficacy of a newly developed so-called ‘tomato pill’. The pill is being produced by a company called CamNutra but the study was conducted independently.   The researchers asked […]

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Go to Source By T. Jared Bunch, MD   Most of us will try a diet some time during our lives. Often when I talk about steps needed to treat a heart disease, patients will say they know they need to lose weight and plan to start a diet. In my clinic patients bring in all […]

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Go to Source   NEW YORK, June 17, 2014 /Nassau News Live/ — Mediterra® (www.MediterraNutrition.com), the first company to introduce all-natural nutrition bars inspired by the Mediterranean Diet, today launched six new unique flavors including truly savory-flavored bars that contain healthful ingredients such as sundried tomatoes, olives and basil.   Featuring various fruits, vegetables and […]

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Go to Source   Maria Menounos is fitter than ever at 36, thanks to a low-carb Mediterrean-style diet and intense workouts, Health reported.   Amazingly, the superfit Menounos was once 40 pounds heavier, but has maintained her impressive weight loss for more than a decade, owing to her fitness-minded lifestyle.   Maria piled on the […]

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