Physical Activity

By Sheri Colberg, PhD   Before the advent of blood glucose meters, discovering how much of an effect female hormones have on insulin action was impossible. If you’re female, past puberty, and still young enough to be menstruating, then you’ll want to find out more about factoring your time of …

Edited by Trisha Dunning AM, RN, MEd, PhD, CDE, FRCNA and Glenn Ward MBBS, BSc, DPhil (Oxon), FRACP, FRCPath Mr. WC self-referred to a diabetes centre at a tertiary hospital. “I am confused about the recommendations for diet, especially the GI. As a veteran of 27 years of type 1 …

Women should get at least 150 minutes of physical activity each week to help reduce their risk of developing type 2 diabetes.…

  By Sheri Colberg, PhD     The physical activity debate is raging. How much activity should you do each day? How hard do you have to work out? Is walking enough? Can you get fit and lose weight simply by moving more? How much activity is enough?

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 …

Young adults, particularly women, who maintained high levels of moderate and vigorous activity over a period of 20 years experienced smaller gains in weight and waist circumference during the transition from young adulthood to middle age, compared to individuals with lower activity levels….

Physical Activity Log Do you make your patients responsible for their physical activity? Use this simple and straightforward log to help your patients take responsibility for their physical activity. Physical Activity Log

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 …

By Sheri Colberg, PhD   If you experience painful, involuntary contractions of your muscles, you’re having a muscle cramp. They can occur in any muscle but are most common in the legs, feet, and muscles that cross two joints, such as your calf muscle (the gastrocnemius, which crosses your knee …

It may seem intuitive that greater amounts of exercise lead to less obesity, but an Indiana University study has found that this conventional wisdom applies primarily to white women….