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Why Meal Planning Works For Chronic Health Conditions
There are two things that you will hear stressed time and time again when you are diagnosed and treated for any chronic health condition. Those things are regular exercise, and diet control. This is...
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Eating Breakfast Is a Healthy Start to a Healthy Day
Everyone has heard the saying that “breakfast is the most important meal of the day”. It is an ideal that has heard time and time again, starting at childhood. How true is this old adage, though? Why,...
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Navigating a Barbecue with High Blood Pressure
Living with certain health conditions, such as high blood pressure, can make navigating certain situations a little more difficult than usual. Family outings and get-togethers, for example barbecues,...
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Are Salt Substitutes Actually Good For You?
High blood pressure issues require some restrictive dietary needs. Omitting or seriously moderating your sodium intake is one of the most common dietary restrictions for patients with high blood...
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The Rules of Fruit with Diabetes
Diabetes, as well as many other chronic illnesses, comes with its own struggles and questions. In many cases, there is no straight answer, or no solution that works across the board. This is because...
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The Building Blocks of a Great Breakfast
Breakfast is indeed important, and should not be skipped. Skipping meals, especially breakfast, leads to overeating later in the day and can hurt your blood sugar levels as well. After a long night of...
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Vegetarian Diet for High Blood Pressure
Living with chronic health conditions can often result in major changes to your diet and lifestyle. These changes are usually for the better; however, as your diet can often affect your condition as...
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Eating Healthy When You Have No Support
Sometimes the hardest part about changing your lifestyle for the better is dealing with the people around you. Just because they see you struggling to better yourself does not mean they automatically...
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What to Do When the People around You Won’t Eat Healthy
There is no doubt about it, making major changes to your diet and lifestyle can sometimes be difficult. Despite all of the perks of eating a healthy diet, such as looking and feeling your best, you...
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How to Start a New Diet Plan
The hardest part about changing your diet and lifestyle is often just getting started. Some people have a lot of trouble really knowing how to get started, and also they tend to have a lot of...
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My Doctor Says I Need To Change My Diet
You have been diagnosed with chronic kidney disease and your doctor is talking to you about changing your diet. According to your doctor, you need to start a restrictive kidney friendly diet alongside...
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Cooking Diabetic Friendly Meals for the Whole Family
Changing your eating habits for a healthier diet and lifestyle can be difficult enough without the help and support of your family. Sitting down to dinner with a plate of steamed veggies and baked...
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Diabetic Friendly Party Foods
Birthdays, potlucks, and all sorts of get-togethers require food. And, who doesn’t love a good party? Anyone living with diabetes might find parties a bit intimidating, specifically when it comes to...
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High Blood Pressure Snacks
Snacking is an important part of any healthy diet. Snacks help keep your blood sugars stabilized, keep you full and satisfied between meals, and help keep your energy levels up. The trick is sticking...
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Heart Healthy Lunches on the Go
Many people find lunch time to be the most difficult meal to accommodate the healthiest choices. So many people do working lunches, are busy and unprepared, and otherwise on the go. This usually leads...
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Eating With Multiple Chronic Illnesses
Often the hardest parts of living with a chronic health condition are all of the major diet and lifestyle changes that need to be made. Many people do not learn how much your diet can affect your...
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How Weight Affects Your Health
It seems like doctor’s offices focus a lot on weight these days. Every appointment, you are weighed and the number on the scale is used not only as a point of discussion, but it is inputted into...
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Eating As a Balancing Act
Maintaining a healthy diet with gestational diabetes can sometimes be a challenge. At first, there seem to be so many rules to follow and things to remember about what you can and cannot eat. There’s a...
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Facts about Cholesterol
Cholesterol is one of those issues that just about everyone has to be careful about, especially in our society where eating fast food is sometimes a daily occurrence. Unfortunately, many people do not...
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Treating Juvenile Diabetes
Diabetes is a preventable illness in the United States. Due mostly to widespread obesity, type 2 diabetes is somewhat of an epidemic. Most people know someone with type 2 diabetes, or have at least...
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