Glycemic load

Stress, stress is something every being encounters in every situation whether they decide it or not, it is all determined by how an individual perceives the stress and how your mind interprets it (distress/eustress). Aside from the fact that humans differ stress, how is the body affected chemically and hormonally by stress? What is the question? Well what are the biochemical and physical changes this element of everyday life affects that happen to all beings? The amygdala is the control center…

Objectives: To evaluate the association of glutathione S- transferase mu 1 (GST M1) and glutathione S- transferase theta 1 (GST T1) polymorphisms with the development of T1DM and disease-related risk factors. Materials and Methods: The study included 64 diabetic children with T1DM and 41 control subjects. They were subjected to: history taking anthropometric measurements and laboratory parameters included fasting glucose, serum creatinine, lipid profile, HbA1cand evaluation of GST T1 and M1…

Diabetes Mellitus type 2 is a common chronic metabolic disorder and of the main causes of death in the United States. The total prevalence of diabetes in the United States is 25.8 million people, of these; 7.0 million have undiagnosed diabetes (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2011). Among adults, diabetes is the leading cause of cardiovascular disease, renal failure, blindness, and non-traumatic amputations of lower extremities (Buttaro, Trybulski, Bailey, & Sandberg-Cook, 2013). The…

Let’s start off by first understanding what a bodybuilder is, and who fits in the category. Now a bodybuilder isn’t only just an individual who uses weighted resistance to build and develop his/her musculature frame. People always seem to measure down a bodybuilder being a well-proportioned individual with extraordinary muscle definition, but that is not the case. Anyone that is enhancing his/her body to increase performance is a “bodybuilder”. Although reality never sets in does it? So when…

Neal Barnard suggests that “in clinical trials in individuals with type 2 diabetes, low-fat vegan diets improve glycemic control to a greater extent than conventional diabetes diets” (Barnard 255). This means that if you limit your intake of sugary foods and increase your intake of vegetables and foods with lots of fiber, then you will be in better health. Barnard…

Diabetes Mellitus Type II There are two type of diabetes, type 1 and type 2. Diabetes mellitus type 2 is affects 29 million Americans, 86 million are living with pre-diabetes and it is the seventh leading cause of death (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2016). Diabetes type 2 has almost doubled in the past two decades and it is more common than type 1 diabetes. Type I diabetes patients do not produce insulin but type 2-diabetes produce insulin but not enough for the body’s needs.…

Have you ever realized the increasing rate of obesity in the modernized world? Did you ever ask yourself why the highest rate of obese teenagers is present in the main industrial cities where fast food restaurants are mainly concentrated in big numbers? The teeming urbanized lifestyles overshadowed a great prospect of the “consumer’s nutritional choices where these fast food restaurants are constantly becoming an indispensible demand in any city and a major attempt for a wide generation” (Bowman…

Wheat, especially when genetically modified, has been scientifically proven to cause many human health problems such as vitamin deficiency and gluten sensitivity, and humans should aim to replace wheat with more healthier grains in order to maintain a healthy diet. Humans, who were originally hunters and gatherers, followed a Paleolithic diet for most of their existence, which excluded wheat, but the introduction of grains was followed by a decrease in bone and muscle health as well as other…

nutritionally healthy diet is still available to bedridden patients, whether they are able to intake whole foods, nutritional shakes, such as ensure, or have to be fed through a feeding tube. Unfortunately, doctors are usually overwhelmed with their cases loads and are always hurried from one patient to the next, so a lot of times, patient do not get the full description on what to do to prevent or reduce illnesses or if they do, sometimes individual’s lack the willpower to follow through with…

meta-analysis, soda consumption intake was associated with an increase in weight and a lower intake of milk, calcium and other key nutrients. This ultimately places one at risk for several medical problems such as diabetes (Vartanian). The high glycemic load from the sugar in soda increases the insulin resistance of cells, therefore increasing the risk for diabetes (Brownell). While each individual is capable of limiting soda and sugar intake on his own, it is unfortunately not a choice that is…