Weight Control

  • To Your Health

    Whether or not you have diabetes, you need vitamins and minerals for good health. They complement other nutrients to produce energy, build bones, create new tissue and even assist thinking.

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  • Understanding Food Labels

    Selecting healthy, tasty foods is an important component of any diabetes care plan. Fortunately, current labeling laws simplify food choices by putting lots of information at your fingertips.

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  • Getting Stronger Every Day

    In Phase I, we introduced an exclusive multi-phase program to build strength in your important upper- and lower-body muscles. In Phase II, you'll learn how to use weights to add resistance exercises that improve your upper-body strength too.

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  • Phase ll: Strength training to build upper- and lower-body muscles

    Phase II comprises three separate series, with six exercises in each. You’ll need adjustable dumbbells, ankle weights and resistance tubing or bands.

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  • No Weights? No Problem!

    You don't have to buy weights to start a resistance-training program.

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  • Weighing in on CVD

    Diabetes and excess weight often go hand in hand. More than 80 percent of people with type 2 diabetes are overweight, and at least 20 percent of overweight people have several metabolic problems - like diabetes and high cholesterol - at once.

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  • Strength in Numbers

    I have childhood memories from the 1950s of watching my mother faithfully do Jack LaLanne exercises, as seen on his popular TV show, in our living room. I like to believe that those leg lifts, dips and other calisthenics helped Mom stay healthy and preserve her girlish figure until the day she died.

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  • Winning by Losing

    “I was miserable,”  says Claradine Cowell, recalling a point about two years ago, not long after she’d celebrated her 65th birthday.

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  • I Decide to Manage My Weight

    If you have diabetes, losing even a little weight can reduce your risk of heart disease and stroke. Shedding 10 to 15 pounds can lower your blood glucose and blood pressure, improve your blood cholesterol, and possibly allow you to take less diabetes medication

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  • Fighting Fat in the Laboratory

    You monitor your diabetes every day, keeping track of the carbohydrates you consume and the exercise you do, and testing your blood sugar at regular intervals. Meanwhile, at a laboratory in Philadelphia, Dr. Mitchell A. Lazar is also keeping track of diabetes

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