Staying Active
In addition to eating high-quality foods, physical activity can help you reach and maintain a healthy weight. Getting regular physical activity is one of the best things you can do for your health. It lowers the risk of heart disease, diabetes, stroke, high blood pressure, osteoporosis, and certain cancers, and it can also help control stress, improve sleep, boost mood, keep weight in check, and reduce the risk of falling and improve cognitive function in older adults.
Physical Activity
Exercise Can Help Control Weight Obesity results from energy imbalance: too many calories in, too few calories burned. A number of factors influence how many calories (or how much “energy”) people burn each day, among them, age, body size, and genes. But the most variable factor-and the most easily modified-is the amount of activity people get each day.
Protein
Protein is found throughout the body—in muscle, bone, skin, hair, and virtually every other body part or tissue. It makes up the enzymes that power many chemical reactions and the hemoglobin that carries oxygen in your blood. At least 10,000 different proteins make you what you are and keep you that way.
Fats and Cholesterol
When it comes to dietary fat, what matters most is the type of fat you eat. Contrary to past dietary advice promoting low-fat diets, newer research shows that healthy fats are necessary and beneficial for health.
Fun Fitness Activities To Get Kids Moving
Getting children to exercise can be challenging. But there’s no need to stick to run-of-the-mill, boring exercises like jumping jacks, push-ups and sprints. Here is a list of some fun and creative fitness activities for kids that will get them moving in no time at all
Carbohydrates and Blood Sugar
Carbohydrate metabolism is important in the development of type 2 diabetes, which occurs when the body can’t make enough insulin or can’t properly use the insulin it makes. When people eat a food containing carbohydrates, the digestive system breaks down the digestible ones into sugar, which enters the blood.
Measuring carbohydrate effects
Is what you eat slowly killing you? Overtime the food you are eating has an impact on blood sugar and can lead to Type 2 diabetes. Understanding carbohydrate effects and glucose management not only can help you be happier and healthier it can save your life. The glycemic index helps understand the impact food has on blood glucose levels. Blood sugar levels above normal are toxic and can cause blindness, kidney failure, or increase cardiovascular risk.
Carbohydrates
The amount of carbohydrate in the diet – high or low – has less of an effect than the type of carbohydrate in the diet.
Whole Grains
Whole grains offer a complete package of health benefits. A growing body of research shows that choosing whole grains and other less-processed, higher-quality sources of carbohydrates, and cutting back on refined grains, improves health in many ways
Preventing Diabetes
Type 2 diabetes are rates skyrocketing globally and occurring at younger and younger ages. The good news is it is highly preventable