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Be the Boss of Diabetes
Nutrition & Fitness writer
Your body breaks down food into a sugar called glucose. Your body’s cells get energy from glucose, but they need the hormone insulin to carry that glucose from your blood into the cell. Diabetes is a condition where the body either doesn’t make enough insulin, or the cells ignore insulin. Both cases make it hard for glucose to get into your body’s cells. Instead, it stays in the blood at high levels, and can lead to health problems.
HEALTH & FITNESS
New study suggests food to be as addictive as heroin/cocaine.
Nutrition & Fitness writer
 Nature Neuroscience recently published a study headed by scientists at the Florida-based Scripps Research Institute. Their findings show that rats who get a buffet style environment of all-you-can-eat dining, will become addicted to this lifestyle in the same way that druggies will become addicted to heroin or cocaine. The brain responds similarly to junk food and drugs. Think of receptors as doors in your brain. And Dopamine as your brain's happy chemical, sauntering around. Gorging on yummy fatty food will close Dopamine doors in your brain. Shutting out the happy! So you will have to eat more food, to get just as happy. And in our society, more is readily available.
HEALTH & FITNESS
The 10 Commandments of Marathon Fueling
Nutrition & Fitness writer
You've spent months training for your upcoming race: diligently logging miles on the road and treadmill alike. So what could keep you from having an excellent race day? Nutrition. What you eat before, during, and after a marathon can make or break your performance. So here are some guidelines to make sure your eating habits aren't counterproductive to the time you've spent in physical training. You can consider them "the Ten Commandments of Marathon Fueling."
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