Whether you have experience living with diabetes for only a few days, weeks, months, even years now, you might find this an interesting real-life inspirational story about an 83 year old woman from Mississippi. At the age of 7, in 1930 Bonnie Jean Short started taking insulin. She continues to this day taking her insulin injections diligently. Bonnie was awarded her first metal by the Joslin Diabetes Foundation & the Diabetic Fund in 1981 for 50 years of haven taken insulin. Her next award was from the Kansas American Diabetes Association of Wichita in 1985. Her most recent gold award was from Eli Lily for living 75 years Successfully living with diabetes. Despite having diabetes, “You Can Live A Long & Healthy Life,” Bonnie Jean Short.

Isn’t that a truly inspiring story to help you when you are feeling down about your diabetes. Does this help you view your daily cravings for sugar’s, junk food, etc. The good thing about diabetes is it makes you realize who should be in control. You or your symptoms which you know only will snowball into a major illness such as high blood pressure or heart disease, kidney failure, what’s left. If you have ever seen first hand a diabetic with gangrene, that flesh eating rotting of the skin, not to mention that smell that will stay with you for the rest of your life. Now that’s an incentive for living a healthy lifestyle. Sorry, I did not mean to gross you out. sometimes you must scare one to get one to take notice of an important situation.

A few positive steps forward to keep ahead of this disorder is to make certain you check your blood sugars daily. Most important before & after any food or drink. Daily water intake is very important & tea does not count as water consumption, even unsweetened tea. Exercise is a major role in your partnership of diabetes, think what will happen to your car if you leave it parked in the driveway without taking it for a daily or even a weekly drive or even just starting it up, which we know is not even close to exercising.

Life is just too easy now days since everything around us is button generated, too bad they don’t make remotes for kids & spouses. With a push of a button you don’t have to exert any energy, yes it’s nice, fast & convenient but so is life. Do you want to live an easy Fat convenient life now. Maybe until your body starts talking back to you symptom-wise with a possible heart attack at an early age. It may be harder to get around carrying all that excess weight that makes you feel like you need a constant nap.

There are many forms of exercise that your personality can be comfortable with. You don’t have to run a mile, or lift heavy weights. Swimming is a good indoor exercise for this time of year. Most gyms & even the YMCA offer indoor pools.

Saying no I don’t have the time or I’m not physically able to exercise is the easy way out. It is also the easiest way to let your unseen aliments & symptoms catch up with you later down the road which by then could be too late. Please take physical action now for your families sake if for not your own. Respecting your health is a positive benefit for your life. Start Today what you don’t have to put off tomorrow!

Fonda Fletcher is a Type 1 Diabetic of 36 years. Currently on an Animas insulin pump, she knows how to take care of her Diabetes the natural way Without Drugs, or medications. With her green diet her life has changed physically & mentally. She keeps a positive attitude on life helping others. For questions ask Fonda http://www.naturalsolutionsformytype1diabetes.com

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10. Exercising is the “Fountain of Youth”… it can reverse the natural decline in metabolism that begins around age thirty. As we enter our 30’s, about ½ pound of muscle is lost each year and replaced by fat. A pound of muscle burns more calories than a pound of fat. Which means…

9. Your body will burn more calories when you’re sitting on your muscular buttocks than if you’re sitting on your “big fat butt”…Muscle is an active tissue that burns 30 to 50 calories per pound at rest each day. A pound of fat only burns three calories per day.

8. Get Fit! Get Happy!…Exercising elevates your mood. Studies have shown that lifting weights provides some of the same benefits as anti-depressant medication but without the side effects (except improved self-esteem and self-confidence.)

7. To keep from saying “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!”… Exercising improves

your balance and coordination.

6. If you do fall you’re more likely to get up uninjured…Lifting weights strengthens

muscles and connective tissues, decreasing the likelihood of injury.

5. You did fall and you couldn’t get up…Exercising helps with recovery and rehabilitation. The stronger you are the faster you recover. Pumping iron has also been

shown to help ease the pain of some forms of arthritis… by as much as 40 percent!

4. Your Mom told you to sit up straight…and she would want you to lift weights because it strengthens the abdominal and back muscles that support your spine, which

improves your posture.

3. Someone told you to “break a leg”…Exercising increases bone density and

reduces your risk of developing osteoporosis.

2. You want your heirs to live well on their inheritance… but not any time soon…the Framingham Heart Study, which has followed over 5,000 residents of Framingham, Massachusetts over four decades (and still going), has shown that people who exercised vigorously for 30 minutes five days per week, lived almost 4 years longer than their peers, with good health in their later years. People who walked 5 days per week added 1.3 to 1.5 years to their lives.

1. It’s never too late to start…See reason #10…Studies on the elderly show weight training causes significant increases in strength, muscle growth, and quality of life, even for people starting to exercise in their 80’s or 90’s. But why wait until you’re 90 to improve your quality of life??? Start today!
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How many times have you gone to sleep at night, swearing you’ll go to the gym in the morning, and then changing your mind just eight hours later because when you get up, you don’t feel like exercising?

While this can happen to the best of us, it doesn’t mean you should drop the ball altogether when it comes to staying fit. What people need to realize is that staying active and eating right are critical for long-term health and wellness — and that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. The more you know about how your body responds to your lifestyle choices, the better you can customize a nutrition and exercise plan that is right for you. When you eat well, increase your level of physical activity, and exercise at the proper intensity, you are informing your body that you want to burn a substantial amount of fuel. This translates to burning fat more efficiently for energy.
In other words, proper eating habits plus exercise equals fast metabolism, which, in turn gives you more energy throughout the day and allows you to do more physical work with less effort.

The true purpose of exercise is to send a repetitive message to the body asking for improvement in metabolism, strength, aerobic capacity and overall fitness and health. Each time you exercise, your body responds by upgrading its capabilities to burn fat throughout the day and night, Exercise doesn’t have to be intense to work for you, but it does need to be consistent.

I recommend engaging in regular cardiovascular exercise four times per week for 20 to 30 minutes per session, and resistance training four times per week for 20 to 25 minutes per session. This balanced approach provides a one-two punch, incorporating aerobic exercise to burn fat and deliver more oxygen, and resistance training to increase lean body mass and burn more calories around the block.

Here’s a sample exercise program that may work for you:

* Warm Up — seven to eight minutes of light aerobic activity intended to increase blood flow and lubricate and warm-up your tendons and joints.

* Resistance Training — Train all major muscle groups. One to two sets of each exercise. Rest 45 seconds between sets.

* Aerobic Exercise — Pick two favorite activities, they could be jogging, rowing, biking or cross-country skiing, whatever fits your lifestyle. Perform 12 to 15 minutes of the first activity and continue with 10 minutes of the second activity. Cool down during the last five minutes.

* Stretching — Wrap up your exercise session by stretching, breathing deeply, relaxing and meditating.

When starting an exercise program, it is important to have realistic expectations. Depending on your initial fitness level, you should expect the following changes early on.

* From one to eight weeks — Feel better and have more energy.

* From two to six months — Lose size and inches while becoming leaner. Clothes begin to fit more loosely. You are gaining muscle and losing fat.

* After six months — Start losing weight quite rapidly.

Once you make the commitment to exercise several times a week, don’t stop there. You should also change your diet and/or eating habits,’ says Zwiefel. Counting calories or calculating grams and percentages for certain nutrients is impractical. Instead, I suggest these easy-to-follow guidelines:

* Eat several small meals (optimally four) and a couple of small snacks throughout the day
* Make sure every meal is balanced — incorporate palm-sized proteins like lean meats, fish, egg whites and dairy products, fist-sized portions of complex carbohydrates like whole-wheat bread and pasta, wild rice, multigrain cereal and potatoes, and fist-sized portions of vegetable and fruits
* Limit your fat intake to only what’s necessary for adequate flavor
* Drink at least eight 8-oz. glasses of water throughout the day
* I also recommend that you take a multi-vitamin each day to ensure you are getting all the vitamins and minerals your body needs.

Enjoy life, we all deserve it.

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Have you ever wondered what it will take for you to lose weight and maintain your ideal body mass index you tried numerous weight loss fads to try to slim down, only to return to your old habits and gain weight again? 

Do you have any concerns about the ill effects of weight loss pills, crash diets, and slimming regimens widely advertised by slimming agencies in our mass media?  

Have you been bogged down by the technical jargon in scientific journals or have not been able to determine if what’s written makes sense or has scientific bearing? 

I know of many friends and family member who struggle with this every day, as we are constantly bombarded with loads of information from the internet, mass media, magazines, talk shows and even day-to day conversations with friends, colleagues etc.  Does dieting have to be so tough and regimented? Can one really eat what they need and still stay slim and healthy and avoid complications arising from protein rich diets? Does one have to get kidney problems to stay slim? Or does one have to swallow pills and resort to meals in a glass in order to look good?  

What are some of the factors that determine how we look and feel? What is the impact of genetics, metabolism and nutrition that affects body weight? 

Well, I hope to provide some useful articles on the theories of dieting and weight loss, sieving the fact from the fiction. What I’m aiming for is to cut out all the trials and errors which one has to go through, before hitting on the right formula and with a Degree in Biotechnology and a Masters in Food Science, along with a sound understanding of Food Chemistry and Nutrition, I believe I will be able provide my inputs as to whether of not things make sense from a scientific viewpoint.  

So drop me a line and tell me what you’ll like to read about!

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