Nowadays, two approaches of diabetes, prediabetes, and other metabolic imbalances prevail. The first one, the ‘all-medical’ approach, chiefly deals with endocrine and metabolic processes: calorie intake, insulin metabolism, enzymatic processes and all the neurotransmitters involved in homeostasis, i.e. the regulation of our blood sugar level. It promotes a treatment aiming to ‘chemically’ restore these mechanisms. The second – and most…
According to the 2010 OECD report “Obesity and the Economics of Prevention: Fit not Fat”, at least 50% of the adult population is now overweight (as defined by the World Health Organization as having a body mass index, or BMI, of 25 kg/m² or above) in more than half of the 34 OECD countries, and 500 million people worldwide – 10%…
Men who sit for at least 5 hours a day, and don’t compensate this inactivity with regular exercise display a more than doubled risk of heart failure compared to their more physically active counterparts who sit less than 2 hours a day. So, whenever you have the opportunity, try not to sit too much, and if your job doesn’t allow…
The antioxidant flavonoids in green tea increase our body’s sensitivity to insulin, which makes this beverage a potent ally for prediabetes and type 2 diabetes sufferers.
Close to 90 million American people suffer from prediabetes, and 70% of those shall sooner or later develop Type 2 diabetes… And while this pandemic is undoubtedly linked to modern Western lifestyle habits, it nevertheless affects most countries nowadays. Indeed, if nothing changes, within 20 years Type 2 diabetes will most certainly rank first among human diseases (according to the…
While we all know that desserts, cakes and sweet carbonated drinks are very high in sugar, there also a few less obvious sources of hidden sugar: – Fat-free yogurt very often contains added fruit or flavorings. As a result, it may contain up to 20g of sugar (the equivalent of 5 teaspoons); – Readymade sauces also contain sugar (i.e. about 1…
Modern schedules lead to a chronic discrepancy between our biological clock and our daily schedule, so that we are permanently “jetlagged”. This “social jetlag”, as researchers from the University of Munich have named it, contributes to the disruption of our metabolism. Sufferers are therefore more likely to become overweight and/or obese.
According to the 2002 WHO guidelines, our daily sugar intake shouldn’t account for more than 10% of our daily calories. Now some scientists believe that reducing this threshold to 5% would be even healthier, while others argue that such a target would be very tough to meet and even more to sustain. Anyway, the present statistics show that we eat…
Environmental hazards, such as modern polluting agents, in particular the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) produced by any combustion process (even a scented candle) rank high among the lifestyle factors apt to promote weight gain, obesity, prediabetes and Type 2 diabetes. These compounds may disrupt the lipolysis process, i.e. the transformation of body fat into energy, making our bodies more reluctant to…