http://blog.shericolberg.com Information about Exercise, Diabetes, Weight Loss, Longevity, Nutrition, and More Tue, 11 May 2010 12:19:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Get Expert Healthy Living Reports--FREE!! Give us just 15 minutes per week and our fitness and healthy living experts will give you invaluable advice based on their years of training...Free! From physical activity myths demystified, to easy weight loss tips, to eating healthy on a budget, to core training exercises, and ... http://blog.shericolberg.com/?p=199 Here's some info that may be interesting to anyone with type 2 diabetes who could use some help getting better blood glucose control. I got an e-mail from Kathryn Martin, who is part of a team working on two national clinical research studies looking into type 2 diabetes. ... http://blog.shericolberg.com/?p=196 We all know some weekend warriors who load up on their exercise on the weekends to make up for doing less physical activity during the week, but now researchers in Hong Kong found that catching up on sleep on the weekends may help in preventing some health problems, at least ... http://blog.shericolberg.com/?p=188 Type 1 diabetic dog musher Bruce Linton depends on support from private donations to help pay part of the cost to run the famous Iditarod dog sled race that covers 1,112 miles over frozen tundra in Alaska every March, and he needs your help. The rest of the cost ... http://blog.shericolberg.com/?p=193 Most of us living with diabetes have to constantly give some thought not only to how many carbs we’re consuming, but also the type. The ones you choose do make a difference if you’re trying to keep your blood sugars from skyrocketing after meals or from dropping too low during ... http://blog.shericolberg.com/?p=186 A study published in October 2009 in Diabetic Medicine investigated differences in the rates of exercise-induced low blood sugars. A total of 50 people with type 1 diabetes (average age around 39 years and two-thirds men) who already were on a mealtime rapid-acting plus basal insulin regimen exercised for 30 ... http://blog.shericolberg.com/?p=183 As many of you know, I have been active with the Diabetes Exercise & Sports Association (DESA) for many years now, serving as a member of their Board of Directors and writing a quarterly column for their newsletter. As it is a non-profit group, the current economic times have ... http://blog.shericolberg.com/?p=180 November 14 is World Diabetes Day. On that day, at 14:00 hours (2 pm, local time), thousands of people with diabetes will test their blood sugar, do 14 minutes of exercise, test again and share their results online. The event is called The Big Blue Test because the blue circle is ... http://blog.shericolberg.com/?p=176 Remember drinking chocolate milk with your lunch or as a snack when you were a kid? It’s probably a habit you gave up ages ago, but maybe you should rethink it. According to a 2009 study published in February in Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism, when nine trained male cyclists ... http://blog.shericolberg.com/?p=162 November 14 is World Diabetes Day! It was introduced in 1991 by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) in response to the alarming rise in diabetes around the world. In 2007, the United Nations marked the Day for the first time with the passage ... http://blog.shericolberg.com/?p=168