What Happens to Your Body When You Eat Sugar, Exactly?
A primer on what sugar does in your body and ways to avoid the negative effects of excess sugar.
Tag: Diabetes
Transformation Tuesday | Getting Fit Helped My Self-Worth
I wasn’t always overweight. I started gaining weight around the 4th grade, and slowly it started to get out of control. I was always raised around food, and it was always second nature to eat. When I got into young adulthood, my eating habits got really bad. I would spend […]
Transformation Tuesday | This Is Just The Beginning
I was always a big guy for most of my life. I really started to pack on the pounds in my teenage years with no physical activity and lots of eating out at buffets and fast food. By the time I was 17, I was already over 300lbs. As […]
Transformation Tuesday | How I Beat Diabetes Through Fitness
I was always overweight. Not extremely obese, but I was never at a “healthy” weight. I hated going to the doctor, because he would always tell me I needed to lose weight. I already knew that… but I never did anything about it. I always had excuses & wanted to […]
Transformation Tuesday | A Quest With No Destination
I was always the heavy girl – I was always told being heavy was just my build. Then one day, things changed. I woke up one late summer morning and decided… enough was enough. I come from a long line of family who suffer from obesity related illnesses, and I […]
Transformation Tuesday | Start Small To Lose More
My name is Matt. I’m from San Antonio, TX and I’m 30 years old. And at 30 years old, I’ve accomplished a somewhat rare feat. What is that feat, you ask? Well… at the age of 30, I look better, feel better and am in better health than I was […]
Transformation Tuesday | Making The Impossible, Possible
I moved to the United States from Puerto Rico when I was 4. I started playing baseball at a very young age and continued playing until high school. But after feeling “burned out” from the sport, I decided to call it quits to focus on my academics. At this point, […]
Transformation Tuesday | Starting A New Life
My transformation story started three and a half years ago. At 5’9” and weighing 306 lbs., I was a miserable thirty-three year old food addict that wore a mask of happiness every day. I was the butt of jokes from others and even myself. I tried to pretend I […]
Decades Old Vaccine May Combat Diabetes
Researchers at Harvard have uncovered a promising new sign in the battle against Type 1 Diabetes. A Tuberculosis vaccine, which has been in use for over 90 years, has seemingly reversed the disease in some patients. The vaccine, known as bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG), acts as a stimulant to a protein which […]