Eating For Health

My daughter has a friend who was diagnosed with prediabetes.   And this is becoming increasingly more common.   What is prediabetes?   How many people have it?   If you have prediabetes, what lifestyle changes should you make?   Focusing on exercise and diet are two important areas to focus on.   What is prediabetes? The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) says prediabetes is a “serious health condition where blood sugar levels are higher than normal, but not high enough to be diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes”.   To determine if you have diabetes your health care provider will take a blood test: o    A1C Test – this test measures how much sugar is in your blood over the past 2-3 months.   o    Fasting blood sugar – This test measures how much sugar is in your blood after you have fasted overnight.   Your health care provider may also do a Glucose Tolerance Test or a random blood sugar test.   Know your n...

Who doesn’t love to go out to eat?   In the past, the portion sizes at restaurants were so large, I rarely could finish the meal and would often ask for the doggy bag.   Sometimes the portions were so large, that I could only eat half of what was served.   This week, my husband and I ate dinner at a restaurant in Richmond.   The Mediterranean Chicken I ordered was delicious but I noticed the serving size was actually normal and not the oversized piece of chicken I often would be served.   Needless to say, there were no leftovers to take home.   The Taste of Home recently wrote an article, Restaurants Are Shrinking Portion Sizes Right Now – Here’s Why .    Have you looked at the shrinking sizes of items you buy at the grocery store?   Many customers are noting shrinkflation as the number of ounces or the amount of food in a package is shrinking.   But what is not shrinking is the price.   Well restaurants are experiencing the sa...