By Sheri Colberg, PhD   For decades, people blamed excess body fat on a lack of willpower, evidenced by the fact that 90-95 percent of dieters regain all the weight they lose. More recently, hormones like leptin that are released from fat cells have taken more of the rap, along …

  By Sheri Colberg, PhD     You can’t avoid all the latest headlines about the rapidly growing diabetes epidemic –there are just too many. A recent report by health insurer UnitedHealth Group estimated that more than half of Americans will have diabetes or prediabetes by 2020 if current trends …

New guidelines stress the crucial role that physical activity plays in the management of Type 2 diabetes: physicians should prescribe exercise….

The American College of Sports Medicine and the American Diabetes Association: joint position statement    By Sheri Colberg, Ph.D., FACSM, Committee Chairperson   In the midst of the latest gloomy projections on the rapidly expanding worldwide rates of diabetes mellitus, the latest research on physical activity — reported in a …

      By Sheri Colberg, Ph.D., FACSM       Over the years, I have had many exercisers with diabetes ask me why they’re gaining weight instead of losing it. There are two possible answers to that question.

By Sheri Colberg, PhD   As if the predictions of diabetes to come were not already grim enough, a new report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) now predict that one in three American adults may have diabetes by 2050, with the number of diabetes patients …

By Sheri Colberg, PhD Not that you need anything else to worry about, but now experts are claiming that sitting can kill you. We all know the dangers of a sedentary lifestyle, but this latest news is more alarming for those of us who consider ourselves active because we work …

  By Sheri Colberg, PhD   In a previous column, we talked about how insulin action is affected by many different factors. The one with the biggest impact is the amount of glycogen stored in skeletal muscles and how that is impacted by regular physical activity. This week, though, we need …

  By Sheri Colberg, PhD   Insulin action is affected by many different factors, but arguably the one that may have the biggest impact in the case of diabetes and management of hyperglycemia is the amount of glycogen that is already stored in skeletal muscles. The body can only store …

By Sheri Colberg, PhD The buzz words these days when it comes to metabolic disease prevention are "antioxidant status" and "inflammation." We extoll the possible benefits of taking antioxidant supplements like vitamin E and alpha-lipoic acid to prevent cardiovascular, eye, and other diseases. We continually hear about how natural antioxidants …