Oatmeal Pancake Recipe Great For Diabetic and Heart Disease Patients

Today, I want to share a recipe that I think is a wonderful way to control your AM blood sugars and keep your cholesterol low.  It’s a breakfast pancake recipe that is made using oatmeal and let’s you create a higher fiber meal with little to no effort or change in taste.  These are delicious! […]

January Is About Resolutions

  In this month’s video, I talk about why your resolutions are not absolutes but just goals to get you started in the right direction.  Don’t let failure get you down, make sure you are making steady progress toward your goals and don’t stop just because you had a bad day!

Top 3 Ways To Make Health Your New Year’s Resolution

It’s January, and we all see it as a time to start anew.  Forget how we did last year, we are going to do it right this year.  No matter what. I see that happen in my own life as well.  It’s like we turn the page and it’s a brand new life.  I can […]

Resolve to Take Your Life Back One Step At A Time

It’s the New Year tradition, to make some resolutions and then possibly follow them for a few days, weeks or months, then they are forgotten. But I don’t necessarily do “resolutions”, I feel like you should stop trying to make such huge changes that they are impossible to continue to do.  Your new year’s changes […]

Tricks To Get The Most Out Of Your Trip To The Farmer’s Market

Day three of learning to shop at the farmer’s market.  I hope you have found this series valuable, and I want to give you some more valuable farmer’s market tips that will allow you to get the most out of your trip. Before, we have talked about how to get the right information and getting […]

More Tips On Going To A Farmer’s Market On A Diet

In this second part of the blog post series on shopping at a farmer’s market, I am going to talk about how to know what to choose and come home with foods that are healthy for you. We just talked about the first 3 lessons in the previous blog post.  They were tips that allow […]

How To Shop At A Farmer’s Market On A Diet

You know that healthy food is most likely the freshest food that you can find. While frozen and canned foods can be healthy, it’s best to eat the least processed food available.  One way to do that is to go to your local farmer’s market while fresh fruits and vegetables are in season. Learning what […]

What a Low Sugar Diet Can Do For Your Health

It’s great to take control over your eating and eliminating as much of the added sugars that are contained in our everyday foods.  Sugars tend to make us eat more and almost crave more of those types of foods. You can see in the video below, which is by a registered dietitian, some suggestions for […]

Using Specially Made “Free” Labeled Foods Is Not Always The Best Idea

I am going to rant a bit about the “free” foods that you and I see everywhere. The abundance of these types of food is what is partially responsible for our current epidemic of obesity.  Yes, I know that you and I eating these foods is really what causes the problem, but the perception is […]

A Diabetes Meal Plan Should Include Eggs

A Diabetes Meal Plan Needs Foods Low in Carbohydrate One of the best foods that you can have in a diabetes meal plan is an egg.  Why?  I heard eggs are bad for your heart… Well, the amount of cholesterol in an egg is higher than most people should eat in one setting.  But the […]