Category: Food & Nutrition

Eat Your Winter Vegetables

I know it's important to include raw vegetables in my diet, but as the winter wears on I find myself eating fewer and fewer green salads. When I'm feeling cold, I prefer cooked vegetables and one of our favorite ways to prepare winter vegetables is in the oven. Almost every night we eat baked cauliflower, which is as filling as potatoes but won't make your blood sugar spike.
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Almonds May Improve Insulin Sensitivity

Consuming an almond-enriched diet may help improve insulin sensitivity and decrease LDL-cholesterol levels in those with prediabetes, a new study shows. In the study, published in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition, the authors tested the hypothesis that in adults with prediabetes,an almond-enriched American Diabetes Association (ADA) dietimproves measures of insulin sensitivity and other cardiovascularrisk factors compared with an ADA nut-free diet.
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Almonds May Prevent Type 2 Diabetes

A recent study shows that incorporating almonds into your diet can help treat and possibly prevent type 2 diabetes.The study, published in the June 2010 Journal of the American College of Nutrition, is one of the first of its kind to quantify prevention data...
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