Over time, sleeping less than five hours a night increases your blood sugar swings by 2.87%. That finding — published in JAMA Network Open — underscores just how much your sleep habits impact your metabolic health.1 Glycemic variability — the technical term for those swings — plays a major role in insulin resistance and Type… Read More »
881 Shares Statistics relating to strokes and falls are bleak, with research revealing that strokes can increase the risk of falling by 4 times and drastically increase the risk of breaking a hip following a fall. Approximately 80% of individuals who have strokes will also have impaired balance to some degree. A study which presented… Read More »
Having recently heard from a friend about her struggle to re-enter the workforce after raising her children, I started thinking about some of the managers I’ve had in the past and how they may have impacted my parenting and work choices. When my children were very young, I had some shockers. One who told me… Read More »
Healthy eating shouldn’t feel restrictive or rigid. It’s important to build in flexibility into your regular habits to allow for times when they’ll be broken. There are so many times in life where there are external circumstances that require or force us to pivot, adjust, and be flexible in order to go with the flow.… Read More »
Eat more vegetables and fruits—the more colorful and varied, the better. Check for added sugar in lower-fat versions of dairy foods, like yoghurt. However, basic nutrition remains much the same. First, a little chemistry: A pH level measures how acid or alkaline something is. Plant oils, nuts, and fish are the best what is diet… Read More »