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GET Into Diabetes Remission & STOP the Devastation
You want a compassionate healthcare practitioner who understands diabetes and pre-diabetes, whose goal is to reverse the metabolic dysfunction, help you reduce risk of long-term complications and help restore you to optimum health. In addition, you want a practitioner, who cares about your total well-being and who is willing to spend more than five minutes…
Read MoreWhat is Diabetes?
Diabetes is a serious health disorder. I am hesitant to call it a disease, because depending on the cause and type of diabetes, it can be reversed in many situations (or managed), and some types can be prevented. The conditions that occur if diabetes is not well-managed, are what are really considered diseases. You never…
Read MoreGET An Expert Nurse Practitioner That Gets It?
Did you know that the word “doctor” means “docere,” which is latin for “teacher.” I may not have the “M.D.” credentials behind my name, but I guarantee you that by that definition (and many others), I am a doctor. But does today’s doctor really “teach,” or do they mainly “prescribe?” I love doctors, but unlike…
Read MoreGET Diet Therapy
If you are a health care provider, you will find this book to be the holy grail on diet therapy to improve your patients outcomes. Remember: FOOD IS MEDICINE PURCHASE HERE: DIET THERAPY IN ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSING: Nutrition Prescriptions for Improved Patient Outcomes by Katie Ferraro, MS, RD & Cheryl Winter, MS RD, MS APRN, FNP-BC
Read MoreGET A Grip
GET a Grip on your “Body Composition.” Body Composition is simply the amount of lean body mass and body fat that makes up total body weight (weight alone is not an adequate measure of your health). The lean body mass (LBM) includes the bones, muscles, water, connective and organ tissues. Body fat includes both essential…
Read MorePumping Iron to Improve Your Diabetes Control
To maintain a healthy body and to promote good diabetes control, your body needs iron! You may remember from your high school chemistry that iron is a strong, hard, magnetic, silver-gray metal that is atomic number 26 in the chemical element list. Iron is found naturally in the foods we eat, and iron is a…
Read MoreWhat Are You Doing to Prevent Sarcopenia? Use It or Lose It!
Have you ever had major surgery? If you have, you will know that once the anesthesia has worn off, the first thing the doctors and nurses require of you is to “get out of bed” and move! But, “wait a minute,” you cry, “I just had major surgery–let me rest.” Thankfully, however, for you, that…
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