If you’ve been told you have pre-diabetes or are at risk of developing diabetes, you can take steps to reduce your risk or prevent or delay the disease. Diabetes leads to high blood sugar or glucose in the blood since it affects the body’s ability to make or use insulin ...

I love my coffee. I like it with cream so it is about the color of peanut butter. I have a couple of cups in the morning and then on occasion a cup in the afternoon. After looking at the research published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry ...

For decades, body mass index has been the tool used by medical professionals to indicate the level of overweight or obesity, which in turn is believed to be associated with mortality risk. BMI is calculated by taking one’s weight in kilograms and dividing it by the square of one’s height ...

It’s baseball and softball season in Maine, a time many parents spend chauffeuring kids back and forth to practice and games, fitting in dinner, and watching children practice catching, throwing and hitting. I’m one of those parents sitting there watching my child practice softball. As the weather has gotten a ...

High blood pressure is a risk factor for many diseases, including stroke, coronary heart disease, kidney failure and other health conditions. What is actually being determined when blood pressure is measured is the force of blood pushing against the walls of arteries as the heart pumps blood. Over time, if ...

A co-worker of mine had to leave work the other day to go to a local emergency department because of severe pain, nausea and vomiting. As it turned out, she had a kidney stone, or renal lithiasis. I asked her if she drank a lot of milk and she said ...

On Tuesday, March 26, the American Diabetes Association celebrates its 25th annual Alert Day. Alert Day, which is recognized the fourth Tuesday in March each year, is a one-day “wake-up call” encouraging Americans to take the Diabetes Risk Test to find out if they are at risk for developing Type ...

The Fad, I mean “the FastDiet,” written by Dr. Michael Mosley and Mimi Spencer, a food and fashion writer, has been the No. 1 bestseller on the British Amazon.com site since it first debuted for publication in January 2013. The U.S. edition has arrived. Promoted as the guide to “Lose ...

Fish is considered an important part of a healthy diet. However, deciding to eat fish these days is controversial. Issues include overfishing, mercury, dioxins and the nutritional value of farm-grown versus wild-caught fish. Kate McLaughlin, seafood program director for the conservation organization Blue Ocean Institute in Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y., ...

For years, iceberg lettuce has been left out of the salad bowl having been deemed of having no nutritional value. Iceberg gets passed by for other more power-packed greens such as Romaine lettuce, spinach, red leaf lettuce and the like. Many people, however, prefer the crispness of iceberg, which until ...

I dislike buffets. The thought of person after person — hand after hand — serving from the buffet line that I’m going to eat from just isn’t appealing to me. I have seen too many people use less than proper buffet etiquette. If I’m spending the money to go out ...

A very common New Year’s Resolution is smoking cessation. Many people who smoke want to quit. It makes sense given that the leading cause of preventable death in the United States is smoking, leading to about 443,000 deaths annually. Recent statistics from The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicate ...