Category: My Health Journey
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Maintaining Good Kidney Health: Fact vs Fiction
As they play a crucial part in filtering waste products in your body, not having good kidney function, can drastically affect your life in a negative way. Let’s go through some of the things that will destroy your kidneys, then we can discuss five lies your doctor will tell you that will harm your kidneys.
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Fact vs. Fiction: A Deep Dive into Type 2 Diabetes, Part 2
If they believe two or more of these lies their eyes will be closed to the solution of what will reverse their Type 2 Diabetes and give them a normal A1C. They need to know that it is their diet that is causing their Type 2 Diabetes. It can be fixed and they can reverse…
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Fact vs. Fiction: A Deep Dive into Type 2 Diabetes
If you separate the fact from fiction surrounding your condition, there is hope. You can hope to have a normal hemoglobin A1C, not be dependent on medications, and not be worried about losing a leg or a foot, your vision or having bad kidney function.
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Ozempic: The Truth About The Latest “Diet Drug” Part 3
We must keep in mind that over-weight and obesity are complex chronic disorders that are caused by a multitude of factors. Behaviors’ and habits around diet and exercise, environment, genetics and even other medications that may be associated with weight gain, are a big part of the picture. So if you remove one of these…
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Seed Oils: From Toxic Waste to Staple Ingredient
Through clever marketing hacks, seed oils like Crisco became a staple in the North American diet and a product that was seen as a waste product in the 1860s, became a common table food by the early 1900s.
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What makes a Superfood “Super”: Imposters vs. the MVPs
The term super food has been utilized by food producers for marketing purposes to sell their food as healthy when, in reality, it may not be that “super”, but where did this start?
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Diabetes: A Look Into The Growing Health Epidemic, Part 2
This diet along with my medication did not reverse my diabetes, it only ever managed it, and not very well. My A1C would go from 7.5 to 8 at times. Knowing that type 2 diabetes is high blood sugar, this nutrition would keep me a diabetic for ever.
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Diabetes: A Look into the Growing Health Epidemic
From 1990 to 2013, there has been an increase of 70% of diabetes cases in the USA. Every 17 seconds someone is diagnosed with diabetes and every 6 seconds, someone dies from the disease. How much longer must this go on before we reverse this epidemic?
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The Day I Almost Died: My Journey to Better Health
My name is Randy Smith. I’d like to introduce myself, tell you my story and how it inspired me to start this blog. I am a certified personal trainer, with over 30+ years of experience in the field. In 1996 I founded BodySmith sports Performance Training which I still own and work as the head…