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All About Arteriosclerosis
By My Family Plate at May 26, 2011 | 11:22 pm | 0 Comment
All About Arteriosclerosis byRachell Eom 1.What is Arteriosclerosis? When most people hear the term, ‘arteriosclerosis’, they think it is a some form of disease related to the arteries. It is simply a condition where our arteries build up by the accumulation of fatty substance which causes the state where artery is being hardened. The term Arteriosclerosis is more...
Helping Families Get Healthy- Tip #5 (video)
By khickman at February 24, 2011 | 9:27 pm | 0 Comment
Helping Families Get Healthy- Tip #5 By Nurse Kimberly Tip #5 will be easy for some people and harder for others. But whether it is easy or hard doesn't matter. Following the advice in Tip #5 can help save your life, seriously. Tip #5 is MOVE. // Statistics and research show that spending the majority of your time sedentary can lead to severe health more...
Understanding Dietary Sugars
By My Family Plate at February 13, 2011 | 5:29 pm | 13 Comments
Understanding Dietary Sugars by Professor Jay In a mind boggling process, plants make sugars. They capture the light energy from the sun (which is 92,955,807 miles away from us) and then add that energy to carbon dioxide (which we exhale) and make sugar. Wow! We then eat that sugar, use the energy that it contains, and then exhale it back as carbon dioxide. Oh, and if more...
Helping Families Get Healthy: Tip #1 (video)
By khickman at February 8, 2011 | 12:09 pm | 2 Comments
Helping Families Get Healthy: Tip #1 By Nurse Kimberly The statistics surrounding obesity in this country are frightening. Some people do not want to talk about it, but it needs to be addressed. First Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move Campaign has a goal of solving childhood obesity in a generation. It is an ambitious goal and one that I want to help achieve. The one more...
Do You Know What Your Blood Sugar Is?
By khickman at January 27, 2011 | 6:12 pm | 0 Comment
Do You Know Your Fasting Blood Sugar Level? By Nurse Kimberly Earlier this week the Centers for Health and Disease released a report stating that almost 26 million Americans have diabetes. What’s worse is that almost 7 million are not even aware they have the disease. An estimated ninety percent of Americans suffering from diabetes are suffering from Type 2 more...
