More than 24 million Americans suffer from diabetes, of which about 95 percent of those are diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. Diet is important to help control your blood sugar and new research indicates that a low-glycemic index (GI) diet can help keep your glucose levels under control.

Low-GI foods can help gradually increase your blood sugar without spiking it out of control like high-GI foods. By adding the healthy indexed staples and snacks to your recipes you can help avoid diabetes-related illness such as heart disease, vision disorders, kidney failure, obesity and joint problems. Read the rest of this entry »

Who doesn’t want a little help from their body’s natural fat-burning engine? These foods will get the pistons pumping

Chilli
Back in 1986, researchers at Oxford Polytechnic in the UK found that eating one spicy meal can boost your metabolism by as much as 25 per cent for up to three hours after you finish eating. More recently, a study from Laval University in Canada found that men who consumed coffee, plus chilli were able to burn nearly 400 more kilojoules a day than a control group. Read the rest of this entry »