Diabetes

You have been trying. You swapped the soda for juice, the butter for the ‘heart-healthy’ spread, the pastry for a bowl of instant oatmeal and a banana. You read the front of the box, saw the word ‘natural,’ and felt good about it. Then your meter, or your doctor, tells you your numbers are still

If you’ve been told you have prediabetes or type 2 diabetes, you’ve probably been handed a list of foods to cut. Less bread. Less rice. Less pasta. Fewer potatoes. And if you’re like most people, you tried for a while, felt deprived, and slid back to eating the way you always have. I’m not going

More than 2 in 5 American adults have prediabetes, and most don’t know it. Here’s what the landmark Diabetes Prevention Program proved, and a simple, realistic plan to get your blood sugar back to normal.

If you’ve been handed a diabetes or pre-diabetes diagnosis, you’ve probably also been handed a list of things to cut out. Less bread. Less sugar. Less of whatever you actually enjoyed eating. Nobody hands you the other list — the one that tells you what to actually put on your plate instead. That’s the list

Somebody at your doctor’s office, or maybe a well-meaning friend, has probably told you to “watch the glycemic index.” And then they moved on to the next topic like that phrase actually meant something useful to you. It doesn’t, not without an explanation, and I’m tired of watching people nod along to advice they don’t

You’ve done everything right today. You watched your carbs. You skipped the bread basket. You even took a walk after dinner. And your blood sugar reading is still higher than it should be. Here’s what almost nobody tells you when you’re first managing type 2 diabetes or prediabetes: food isn’t the only thing driving your

You’ve probably been told to watch your carbs, get moving, and manage your weight to control your blood sugar. All true. But there’s a fourth lever that gets almost no attention, and it might be undoing everything else you’re doing right: how much you actually sleep. If you’re waking up at 3 a.m. and staring

You just finished dinner. Your body is flooded with the carbohydrates you ate, your blood sugar is climbing, and your instinct is to sit down, relax, maybe watch some TV. That instinct is working against you. There’s a simple, free, almost embarrassingly low-effort habit that can blunt that post-meal blood sugar spike more effectively than

If you’ve been told that fighting type 2 diabetes means cardio, cardio, and more cardio, you’ve only heard half the story. Strength training — actual resistance work, even with light dumbbells or a resistance band — has some of the most consistent evidence behind it for improving blood sugar control in people over 50. And