by Julie Wood | Feb 19, 2022 | Healthy Living
Exercise is the ONE BEST THING WE CAN DO FOR OURSELVES EVERY DAY. Exercise is any movement that will raise the heart rate. Each person’s ability to exercise is quite different. For some, exercise must be done in a chair or bed for mobility or safety. ...
by Julie Wood | Feb 11, 2022 | Diabetes
Why do those with diabetes seem more vulnerable to COVID infections and complications? Health care providers and scientists are aware that the two most common characteristics among many of those who are losing their battle with COVID is being overweight or obese and...
by Julie Wood | Jan 30, 2022 | Healthy Living
Would you like to live to be 100 years old? Most of us would pause as we think about the quality of life at that age. In America, to be a centenarian is rare and typically someone in poor health and needing must assistance from others. A Danish study on...
by Julie Wood | Jan 6, 2022 | Diabetes
Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) is an epidemic around the world. Currently, one out of every ten people are living with T2D. That number has been growing tremendously in the past 50 years and there is no sign of slowing down. There are currently more than 30 million American...
by Julie Wood | Dec 21, 2021 | Diabetes, Healthy Living
As we bring 2021 to a close, let’s look at innovations that improve the lives of those living with diabetes. Affordable long-acting insulin. Semglee manufactured by Viatris is a biosimilar insulin that is medically identical to Lantus or glargine. Semglee is priced...
by Julie Wood | Dec 19, 2021 | Healthy Living
Fasting in the broadest sense is willfully not partaking of something to eat or drink for a period or intermittently. It can be a pattern that involves regular, short-term fasts or periods of minimal or no food or drink consumption. Intermittent fasting,...
by Julie Wood | Dec 19, 2021 | Healthy Living
Fasting in the broadest sense is willfully not partaking of something to eat or drink for a period or intermittently. It can be a pattern that involves regular, short-term fasts or periods of minimal or no food or drink consumption. Intermittent fasting,...
by Julie Wood | Dec 19, 2021 | Diabetes, Healthy Living
How Do I Know if I am a Diabetic? I get asked this question quite often. The real question here is ‘how do I know my glucose is controlled?’ The measure of glucose can be done in many ways. BLOOD GLUCOSE MONITORS There are many brands of glucose monitors which...
by Julie Wood | Dec 19, 2021 | Healthy Living
Eat your vegetables. How many times did we hear that as a child? The US dietary guidelines recommend a minimum of 3 cups of vegetables and fruits every day but ideally, we should eat 6 to 8 cups to be healthy. Sadly, less than 3% of Americans do this. What vegetables...
by Julie Wood | Dec 19, 2021 | Healthy Living
We have probably all said that. But do we really know what we are asking? In 1886, John Pemberton who was a Confederate Colonel and physician was wounded in the American Civil War. He became addicted to morphine and in an attempt to find a substitute for the...
