You may be following your healthy diet plans, but do you still have high blood sugar spikes?  If so you may be shortening your life despite the healthy diet plans.

Even if your weight is ok and you follow healthy eating guidelines most of the time, but eat big meals, lots of beer or other binges you may be shortening your life. 

Repeated blood sugar spikes stress the organs that make up the metabolic system in your body.  As I talked about in a previous post this all takes its toll on your body and things start to breakdown and wear out.

You could live symptom free for years yet be in a pre-diabetic state and think you are following your healthy diet plans. 

You can lose as much as 50% of your pancreas function and feel no symptoms

Those with pre-diabetes have the same risks as those with full diabetes and you may not even know it.

Even though you are following healthy eating guidelines or healthy diet plans most of the time try to analyze how many binges you have with large amounts of sugary food or beer.  Determine that number and try to cut it in half.  The less sugar you consume then less sugar stress you put on your body and the longer it will function properly.

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You may be giving yourself a sugar stress test every single day and you don’t even know it.

Doctors use what is called an oral glucose tolerance test to diagnose patients with prediabetes and diabetes. 

For this test you consume 75 grams of glucose to see how your body body processes the sugar.  It is essentially a stress test for your pancreas and is something you should not normally do.  Yet, we seem to do this every day and many times worse than this test. 

One 24-ounce soda often contains more than 75 grams of sugar. 

Maybe you think your body can process this large load of sugar, but everything wears out at some point.  If you are constantly stressing your pancreas at some point it may say enough is enough and start to not work so well.  Outcome is diabetes and a failed healthy diet plan.

Some symptoms to look for: 

Severe hyperglycemia:  Blurred vision, extreme thirst, frequent urges to urinate

Hypoglycemia:  You feel weak with cold sweats, anxiety, blurred vision, or tiredness a couple hours after a sugar binge.  This one is more easier to spot.

If you experience any of these symptoms ask your doctor about conducting an OGTT test, which is more accurate than a fasting blood sugar test.  Make the most of your health diet plans.

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Studies have shown this for years and those on high sugar diets tend to have 32% higher triglycerides when consuming processed foods. 

What happens is your body can’t metabolize all this HFCS and sugar consumed in processed foods as fast as you eat it.  So your liver puts some of the foods glucose and HFCS into your bloodstream to be used for energy.  The rest of it is stored for later use. 

The problem is if your liver’s tank is full it will store these sugars as excess triglycerides.  Your liver can store about 90-100 grams of glycogen, so it converts the excess to fat or triglycerides. 

When you maintain a healthy weight or follow healthy weight loss you can keep your triglyceride level in check.  If you are overweight or are gaining weight your triglycerides will start to accumulate and become a key predictor of heart disease or strokes. 

If you are overweight or gaining weight here is what you need to do.  Lay off the sugary and starchy foods as well as the sugared drinks.  Make sure you are exercising at a higher intensity for 5 days a week.  Your body wasn’t built to handle all that sugar and you need to make sure you are burning enough calories to use what you do eat for energy and not have excess sugars left over to be stored as fat.

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Whether you’re a competitive athlete or committed exerciser, at some point you’ve probably experienced excessive fatigue and muscle soreness following your workout. Sometimes this tiredness can hold you back from working out as hard as you’d like for many days.  In order to reduce this feeling of delayed recovery and allow your body to get back into the game sooner than later, you need to appreciate the importance of proper exercise nutrition.

Research scientists have shown that proper nutrition supplementation is critical for recovery from intense weight-training and endurance exercise. Most recently, the evidence points to a specific combination of carbohydrates and protein as being the most effective for restoring muscle glycogen (the fuel you use while exercising), repairing muscle damage, preventing muscle breakdown, and promoting muscle growth.  All of these factors are important for your timely return to your workout plan.

Read the rest of the article here==>> Post Workout Recovery Research

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture, the World Health Organization, the American Heart Association, the American Cancer Society, and the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion agree – you should eat more fruits and vegetables.

Up to 10 total servings a day!

  That’s a lot of food.  

And besides having to eat all that food, maybe you don’t love the taste of fruits, vegetables or greens.  Or you don’t have time to shop 2-3 times a week to buy fresh fruits, vegetables and greens? 

 And don’t get me started about preparing the food (washing, chopping, peeling, dicing, mincing, steaming, grilling, microwaving, broiling, and baking can be a real pain in the rear!)

If You Can’t Beat Mother Nature, Join Her!
 

Click here to learn more about how you can still benefit from all the rich vitamins and minerals ==>>  Healthy Eating Tips

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Until recently the only coffee options we have had were to use the seed of the coffee plant or using the roasted bean.  Unfortunately coffee growers threw away the red fruit of the coffee plant because they didn’t know how to use it and it would rot quickly.  

Technology and scientists have figured out a way to utilize that wonderful red fruit from the coffee plant and all its beneficial properties.   The fruit of the coffee bush is this red fruit that contains the coffee bean.  Many knew that there were a lot of nutrients within the fruit as well because like many plants the nutrients are distributed throughout the entire plant and not just in a seed.
 
There are many new health benefits being observed and researched by scientists and a company has taken much of this information and developed a way to utilize the entire coffee fruit.  They call it Coffeeberry and it contains much higher levels of important nutrients than conventional coffee.

Click here to learn more about =>> Coffeeberry

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Banana Ice Cream

1 scoop Prograde Protein Vanilla
12oz almond milk
1/2-1 sliced banana

Blend Prograde protein powder, banana and milk together in a blender until it is mixed well.  Then put in the freezer until frozen.  Once frozen then enjoy!

Tip: Healthy ice cream will come out harder than conventional high fat, high sugar ice creams.  My suggestion is to portion out the blended mix into serving bowls or tupperware bowls and then freeze.  Then just take out your serving and let it set on the counter for 10 minutes.  If you can’t wait that long put it in the microwave for 30 seconds or so and then enjoy!

Nutrition Data per recipe

Calories:  307
Protein: 25 gms
Carbs: 39 gms
Fat: 5.5 gms

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Blueberry Ice Cream

2 scoops Prograde Protein Vanilla
1/2 cup blueberries
12oz almond milk

Blend Prograde protein powder, almond milk and blueberries together in a blender until it is mixed well.  Then put in the freezer to freeze.  Once frozen then enjoy!

Tip: Healthy ice cream will come out harder than conventional high fat, high sugar ice creams.  My suggestion is to portion out the blended mix into serving bowls or tupperware bowls and then freeze.  Then just take out your serving and let it set on the counter for 10 minutes.  If you can’t wait that long put it in the microwave for 30 seconds or so and then enjoy!

Nutrition Data per recipe:

Calories:  415
Protein: 51 gms
Carbs: 37 gms
Fat: 5 gms

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Vanilla Cinnamon Pudding

2 scoops Prograde Protein Vanilla
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp Stevia
Enough water for desired consistency (about 1/4 of a cup)

Blend Prograde protein powder, stevia and cinnamon ingredients together in a bowl until it mixed well.  Add a little cold water and mix it in.  Keep adding a tiny amount of water and mixing well until your pudding reaches the consistency that you desire.  Then put in the refrigerator to cool.  Once cooled then enjoy!

Nutrition Data per recipe (1 serving):

Calories:  240
Protein: 48 gms
Carbs: 4 gms
Fat: 2 gms

For more delicious healthy recipes like the ones Cheryl mentions above click this link ==>> Healthy Recipes

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Peanut Butter Bars

2/3 cup flax meal
2 scoops Prograde Protein Vanilla
4 Tbsp Natural Peanut Butter
1/2 cup Water
Stevia, to taste (approx: 2tsp)

Blend ingredients together in a bowl until it becomes a blob of dough.  It will be somewhat sticky.  Place the sticky dough into a small casserole or baking pan and smooth out into a flat level surface.  Then put in the refrigerator to cool or you can freeze them if you prefer.  Once cooled or frozen you can cut them up into bars. 

Makes approximately (4) 2in x 4in bars.

Nutrition Data per bar:

Calories:  205
Protein: 18 gms
Carbs: 7 gms
Fat: 11 gms

If you would like a lower calorie bar and maybe less of a peanut butter taste you can modify the ingredients by using 2.5 scoops of Prograde Protein powder, 2 Tbsp natural peanut butter, 1/3 cup of water and 2tsp of Stevia.  This will lower the calories per bar by approximately 35 calories, 3 less grams of fat, 1 less gram of carbs and 1 extra gram of protein. 

This recipe is also rich not only in natural monounstaturated fats that can help lower total cholesterol and LDL (bad) cholesterol, plus raise HDL (good) cholesterol, but rich in Omega 3 fats because of the flax meal and Omega 3 fats that flax meal provides.  You will consume about 2.5 gms of Omega 3 fats per bar. 

For another delicious protein ice cream recipe click this link =>> Peanut Butter Ice Cream

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