What you eat and how much a person eats is critical to their health now and in the future. The simple fact that no more calories should pass your lips than the calories your body uses per day in order to just maintain your current weight.

In the United State it is reported that excess weight and obesity account for a huge number of untimely deaths as an direct contributor to coronary heart disease, type 2 diabetes, stroke, osteoarthritis, and certain cancers.

Genetics, socioeconomic factors and learned behaviors all play a role in today’s overweight and obesity generating environment. Individuals can make the changes when it is learned behavior. When it is learned behavior a conscious choice can take a person back to a healthy weight.

In the Collector’s Edition 2005 of Life Extention, Stephen Cherniski was featured in a discussion of DHEA.  An easy reference to the basis of this article is found in Cherniski’s book “The Metabolic Plan”.  The subtitle of the book and basis of the content of the article are the same; stay younger longer, slow the [...]

Hemoglobin A1c is a blood test method to monitor control of blood sugar in diabetes. It is not a stand-alone screening. It is formed in a non-enzymatic pathway by hemoglobin’s normal exposure to high plasma levels of glucose.

In the normal 120-day life span of the red blood cell, glucose molecules join hemoglobin, forming glycated hemoglobin.  [...]

Glucose testing screens for blood sugar levels.  High blood sugar may indicate diabetes which can lead to blindness, heart attack, congestive heart failure, stroke, kidney failure, and amputations if left untreated.

When we eat, our body uses the food we eat to create blood sugar or glucose. In healthy people a hormone called insulin, which is [...]