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Diabetes mellitus refers to a group of diseases that affect how your body uses blood glucose, commonly called blood sugar. Glucose is vital to your health because it’s an important source of energy for the cells that make up your muscles and tissues. It’s also your brain’s main source of fuel.

If you have diabetes, no matter what type, it means you have too much glucose (sugar) in your blood, although the reasons may differ. Too much glucose can lead to serious health problems.

Chronic diabetes conditions include type 1 diabetes (born with) and type 2 diabetes (poorn diet and activity level). Potentially reversible diabetes conditions include prediabetes — when your blood sugar levels are higher than normal, but not high enough to be classified as diabetes — and gestational diabetes, which occurs during pregnancy but may resolve after the baby is delivered.

Type 1 diabetes is a serious condition that occurs when the pancreas makes little or no insulin. Without insulin, the body is unable to take the glucose (blood sugar) it gets from food into cells to fuel the body

Type 2 diabetes usually occurs slowly over time. When the body is exposed to large ammounts of glocose (sugar), your body’s cells start to become resistant to insulin (know as receptor downregulation). The cells can’t absorb the glucose for energy, so it stays in the blood (high blood sugar) Most people with the disease are overweight when they are diagnosed. Increased fat makes it harder for your body to use insulin the correct way.

Type 2 diabetes can also develop in people who are thin. This is more common in the elderly.

Family history and genes play a role in type 2 diabetes. Low activity level, poor diet, and excess body weight around the waist increase your chance of getting the disease.

Let’s talk more about type 2 diabetes. Why? Because it’s the most controllable. What we eat is just as important as how much we eat. Take wheat, corn, and white starches like potatoes and rice for instance. These foods are converted into sugar. So much in fact that if you have diabetes, the first thin that’s recommended to cut out is wheat. It can spike your blood sugar higher than a candybar. For this reason I recommend cutting back drastically on these food items. They should not be part of your normal diet. Too often these food “have” to be eaten with a certain meal. Shrimp, veggies, rice. Steak, bread, potatoes….Why? Who said? Certainly your body isn’t agreeing with this idea. Let’s break these habits. Let’s take responsibility for our health. Just because the dinner you order comes with these items, does not mean you have to consume them. Remember what is important…….

~its about what YOU see in the mirror~

http://www.mayoclinic.org/

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Apr 19, 2014

Small Changes

People I give advice to about what to cut out their diet sometimes give me excuses. The ones I hear the most when they’re resisting change are, “you never had to worry about weight your weight”, “its easy for you to cut things out of your diet”, “you don’t understand being addicted to sweets”. Well I’m here to tell you they are right. I never had to worry about my weight beacause I’ve always been active. It is true that for me its easy to cut things out of my diet, because I see the changes in my body and health from those decisions. I have always been in somewhat pretty good shape, but I wasn’t always a healthy eater. Let me give you my menu when I was 25 yrs old.

Breakfast: Waffle w/ butter & syrup, 2 eggs, glass of orange juice (every morning til my waffle iron burned out……months)

9:00am: Turkey sandwich..4 pieces of meat, with lettuce, tomates(salt &pepper), pickles, cheese, a piece of fruit, water

12:00pm: same as 9am

3pm or so a candy bar on the way home from work. Usually a snickers

Dinner: Hamburger Helper usually 2 helpings with some kind of canned veggie, and whatever to drink (no thought really put into it)

Hope this doesn’t sound like your typical day…LOL. I don’t want to know the amount of carbs and sodium in this meal. I’m just glad I finally made changes. I don’t presume to have all the answers but this is how I approached the task at hand. I started one meal at a time, breakfast first. Let’s look at the changes I made. I went to one egg. Then I cut the waffle, well I was kind of forced to cut that when my iron crapped out on me, so I went to oatmeal. , then water instead of juice.

My oatmeal: 2cups of rolled oats, 2cups of vanilla almond milk, dried fruit, 1 whole banana, 1Tbs brown sugar, 1tsp of vanilla extract

Basically a big bowl or sugar……carbs turn to sugar so the oats are sugar, the sugary milk, and sugar in the fruit, and straight sugar in the form of brown sugar

1st I cut the brown sugar, then the dried fruit, then the almond milk

It became so nasty that I couldn’t stand to eat it anymore. This is when I realized that in order for oatmeal to taste good you have to add large amounts of sugar to it. So I cut the oatmeal all together, and started eating 1 egg and 1 piece of fruit. This is where I am today. That was just breakfast. The same changes were made to lunch, snaks, and dinner.

These slight changes were made over the span of 13 years, and hours of research on nutrition. So when someone asks me what should they eat, and I answer their question, I understand why they think its overwhelming. I’m giving them the destination. Its up to them as to how they get there. They can approach the goal as slow or fast as they want. My only warning is your body and the damage being done isn’t waiting on you to make changes. So look at what you can tolerate being gone from your diet. Educate yourself and use the knowlege you’ve learned. Don’t make excuses and looking for the easy way out. You can do this.

~its about what YOU see in the mirror~

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Apr 18, 2014

Hypertension (High Blood Pressure)

Hello my athletes! Today we’re gonna talk about HYPERTENSION. Is nick named the silent killer because it usually causes no symptoms. Many people have the problem for years without knowing it. Just because no symptoms are presented does not mean damage is not occuring. The only way to know if you have high blood pressure is to have it checked. When was the last time you had yours checked? Hypertension is when your blood pressure is elevated and it causes your heart to work harder. There are all kinds of reasons for this to occur but we want to talk about the number one reason that we can control……Sodium (salt). Think of high blood pressure like a garden hose where both ends are connected together and there is a pump circulating the water. The more water you put in this system the greater the pressure. When you consume too much sodium the body can’t filter it out and it enters the blood stream. Salt attracts water. This water raises the total volume of your blood causing your pressure to rise. The higher the pressure the harder your pump (heart) has to work to keep the fluid circulating. If the heart isn’t strong enough it fails (heart failure). We get thirsty because the body wants WATER to trying to expell the extra sodium through urine. The body on average only needs about 500mg of sodium a day. Sodium is found mostly in processed foods as a preservative (to extend their shelf life). Even frozen and some prepackaged veggies have sodium added.

Did you know?

One bratwurst contains 900mg of sodium

A can of Chunky Soup contains 880mg of sodium.

Hot Sauce contains 124mg per tsp.

Lean Cuisine dinners contain sodium starting around 400mg

Whopper w/ cheese =1430mg sodium

KFC grilled chicken breast=730mg sodium

Subway Italian B.M.T=1260 mg sodium

!!!!!!!!!!PAY ATTENTION!!!!!!!!!!PAY ATTENTION!!!!!!!!!!PAY ATTENTION!!!!!!!!!!PAY ATTENTION!!!!!!!!!!

This is a normal bottle of Gatorade. We usually drink the whole bottle. The label says it contains 110mg of sodium per 8 ounce serving. This bottle is 32oz……..32/8=4 and 4x110mg=440mg. You are drinking 440mg of sodium. This is how consumers consume large ammounts of sodium without knowing it.

Homework:

1: Find out how much sodium is in EVERYTHING you eat and drink today. EVERYTHING.

2: Have you blood pressue checked

~It’s about what YOU see in the mirror~

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Apr 18, 2014

Sore Muscles!!!

With all this talk of exercise and eating healthy. Let’s talk about newbies’ number one complaint when exercising, getting sore. Yes its uncomfotable, and sometimes painful but it doesn’t last forever. Let’s look at what’s happening in the body and what we can do to alliviate the discomfort.

The correct term is “Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness” (DOMS). Delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS) is understood to be caused by microfractures in the muscle cells themselves. This happens when you do some activity that your muscles aren’t used to doing or do it in a much more strenuous way than they are used to.

This is also why after you exercise some specific way a few times and allow your muscles to recover, that you won’t typically get sore again from doing that activity at a similar intensity level, so long as you continue to do it on a somewhat regular bases. The muscles quickly adapt to being able to handle new activities so as to avoid further damage in the future; this is known as the “repeated-bout effect”. When this happens, the microfractures typically won’t develop unless you change your activity in some substantial way. As a general rule, as long as the change to the exercise is under 10% of what you normally do, you won’t experience DOMS as a result of the activity.

~its about what YOU see in the mirror~

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Apr 17, 2014

What The Heck Just Happened?

So I have a confession I don’t watch television often but chile whenever I sit down to watch it, it’s for Scandal ( my favorite show) Mary Mary, and Love and Hip Hop Atlanta! Whenever I miss any episode of any of these shows I’m hoping on Hulu going to YouTube to catch up. But before there was ever a Scandal, there was a huge Scandal on VH1 called Love And Hip Hop ATL! Honey that show consisted of the washed up producer Steebie J ( yes y’all his name is Steebie) Joslin his Jump off that wanted a music career more than she wanted to learn proper English, MiMi his baby mama and faithful “I miss you and my family I need a place to stay partner” Lil Scrappy, his baby mama, and his jump of, so on and so forth oh I can’t forget about K Michelle crazy self! LOL and a plethora of friends and relatives of the cast. But there was a baby momma on here that I really wanted to show their strength stop getting on Steebie J’ s bus and stand on her own two feet and that was MiMi. She’ s very smart has her own business she’s not a bad looking chic, her and Steebie have a very beautiful daughter. We learned on Season 2 that she had a rough childhood which explained why she sought out attention and love in all the wrong places. The last season she ditched Steebie and started a relationship with Nikkio who really resembles Stebbie, has his mannerism a little less Swag and apparently according to Steebie fake rolex’s that tick? LOL but anywho I was happy that she was happy with anybody besides Steebie. Even though her and Nikko in my opinion had a very strained relationship I was like whatever as long as you not the third wheel in the Steebie triangle. The last episode of the last season MiMi said this long Monologue about how she’s done with Nikkio, Steebie, and wants to just focus on her business and her daughter. I was like finally this lady is making the main thing the main thing.

We fast forward to last week, I’m scrolling on Facebook and boom I see MiMi and Nikko has a sex tape. Being nosey and shocked I’m like nah this is a joke. But before I could even see the results a coworker shows me the “promo” I was like Jesus (y’all know I’m churchy) what about her daughter what about her dignity or self worth? Then I sat and thought ok she’s only relevant when she’s on the show, she probably trying to get on that “Kim Kardashian’s ” plan where you get a sex tape and blow up. But boo that’s a whole different ladder of success that you don’t have the strength, money or power to climb. My thoughts why as women do we degrade ourselves for fame? This is now apart of your legacy. Goggle and search engines will forever store that. And your daughter can find this information about you at anytime. Selfish desires affect everyone connected to you not Just you!! MiMi you could Never say nothing crazy about Joslin anymore your right there on her level. Sad shame!!

BE SURE TO CHECK OUT THE EXTENDED PREVIEW ON VH1

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Apr 16, 2014

Muscle vs Protein supplements

I had a friend ask me about protein today. She wanted to know about protein shakes. So for Promise and the rest of you, here’s the facts…….

The only stimulus to make muscles larger and stronger is to stretch them while they contract against resistance. When you lift a heavy weight, your muscles start to stretch before they start to contract. This tears the muscle and causes soreness on the next day. If you rest and let the muscle heal, it will be stronger than before you stretched it. You improve by performing hard workouts so your muscles can grow and heal while you recover on your easy days.

Anything that helps you recover faster from a hard workout will allow you to do more work to make you stronger. Scientists have known for years that you recover faster by eating immediately after you finish your hard workout. Now we know that eating extra protein helps you recover even faster. Muscles are made primarily from protein building blocks called amino acids. Muscles heal from a hard workout when amino acids and other nutrients travel from your bloodstream into the muscles. Eating any food, particularly foods with plenty of protein, immediately after you finish your workout helps your muscles heal faster so you can do more work. The sooner you eat protein after you finish your hard workout, the quicker you will recover.

However, you don’t need to take expensive supplements; ordinary foods provide high-quality protein and taste better. I am against putting unnecessary chemicals and processed foods in your body. Also once you get done with the supplements, you still have to eat. Learn to use your food. Remember, your body cannot store extra protein. If you don’t need all of the protein you have eaten, it is broken down into ammonia and organic acids, which are used for energy. Any excess is stored as fat.

How much protein do we need?

Our protein needs depend on our age, size, and activity level. The standard method used by nutritionists to estimate our minimum daily protein requirement is to multiply the body weight in pounds by .37. This is the number of grams of protein that should be the daily minimum. According to this method, a person weighing 150 lbs. should eat 55 grams of protein per day, a 200-pound person should get 74 grams, and a 250-pound person should eat 92 grams.

What have we learned?

1. Extra protein is only needed to recover from resistance training

2. Protein is not stored. If you don’t use it or need it, it will be broken down and converted to energy or fat.

3. The way to not add calories to your diet is to use your food to your benefit. Otherwise you run the risk of gaining weight from what you perceive to be healthy food.

Therefore, there is no benefit to ingesting large amounts of protein in shakes, supplements, fortified foods. Considering the S.A.D. (Standard American Diet), we consume meat with evey meal so its not like the average person will be deficient. Now, let’s stop listening supplement companies trying to sell us dreams of lean sculpted bodies in a can, powder or pill.

~its about what YOU see in the mirror~

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http://www.drmirkin.com/fitness/protein_and_muscles.html

http://lowcarbdiets.about.com/od/nutrition/a/protein.htm

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