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Running, jogging, jog “or” running “as you want to call it, is an endurance sport that wins more fans every day, besides being very healthy, pleasant and excellent natural soothing for stress, is one of the most complete out there and one of the most inexpensive and easy to Exercising, get fit and stay.

When you run you use every muscle in the body, allowing you to burn more calories than any other sport (300 to 450 calories per half hour).

Running helps you burn fat and is probably the most effective way to lose weight, though of course it requires diligence and discipline.

Running is one of the sport more accessible, requires no specialized equipment or facilities for practice, you only need good sneakers and comfortable clothing and light.

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This cream-craving with just seeing the photo accompanying this recipe. Besides all the ingredients are low in fat and / or sugar, making them an ideal dessert for people with diabetes.

6 servings

Ingredients:
* 125 g wheat flour
* 1 egg
* 250 ml of skim milk
* 1 teaspoon butter
* 1 / 2 cup mashed avocado
* 1 / 2 cup artificial sweetener (sucralose)
* 1 / 4 cup natural cocoa (unsweetened)
* 1 teaspoon vanilla
* 3 pieces of kiwi, peeled and thinly sliced.

Preparation:
1. Place flour in medium bowl and pour over the egg. Gradually beat the milk, beating with the help of a balloon whisk.
2. Get a smoothie almost liquid to be poured into a nonstick skillet and warm in very small quantities, to form a thin film. Turn it bubbles just begin to appear across the surface and set aside.
3. Melt butter in a saucepan; add the avocado, sweetener, cocoa and vanilla. Beat until smooth. The taste is delicious and no one will guess the vegetable food, rich in omega fatty acids and vitamins that hid in this tempting dish.
4. Crepes filled with avocado mixture. Garnish with kiwi and coconut sauce, water and sweetener that has been heated until thickened.

Nutritional Information:
Calories 167 Kcal
Carbohydrate 23 g
6.0 g protein
5.5 g fat
3.5 g fiber

Surely you know someone with diabetes. Make a test: Ask him if he sleeps well at night. Perhaps the answer is negative.

Specialists are looking for if there is any relationship between both conditions, while many patients with diabetes wonder if the lack of sleep can affect their treatment or alter your blood glucose (sugar) levels.

While there is no completely accurate answer in this regard, some research shows that poor sleep itself could affect the treatment of people with diabetes.

Although sleep requirements vary from one person to another, it is recommended that adults sleep between 7 and 9 hours per day. It is possible that this information will not be new, but it can also be a mission impossible with the current lifestyle you lead. However, it is worth trying.

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Mangosteen, also called mangosteen or jobo of India, comes from Indonesia and is considered one of the most powerful naturally occurring antioxidants have significant effects on cardiovascular health, with anti-inflammatory and antibiotic.

In the rind of the mangosteen and abundant proportion are in the mangosteen xanthones, and mangosteen Alpha mangostin and gamma, which increases energy and protect against free radical damage, also have a number of benefits that help fight infection and strengthen the immune system and provide elasticity to the joints and promote mental acuity.

Among the benefits of this fruit, are remarkable protection of the heart muscle, dementias such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, preventing hardening of the arteries. It is an excellent antidepressant and prevents anxiety.

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For a diabetic most important thing is to control blood sugar levels and prevent blood sugar to rise and rise to unknown heights. It is therefore very important to know what foods raise sugar and what not. Read on and you know some details and information on products for diabetics.

Thus, these products will help you choose the one most get benefits for you and also to avoid. As always keep in mind that diabetes is a balancing act between what you eat (caloric intake) and what you spend (caloric expenditure).

So if you burn more than you can afford to eat more, but at least do less physical activity should eat. Yet not all people are of the same constitution and are more or less vulnerable to undergo a series of changes in your body with more or less easily.

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Diabetes is a metabolic disorder in which insulin plays no role, either because the pancreas can not produce in sufficient quantity (Type I) or because the body’s cells do not respond to it (Type II). In any case the result is a concentration of blood glucose can not be absorbed by the body that can damage the nerves, heart, eyes, kidneys and blood vessels among others. Diabetes has no cure but can be controlled with proper diet, exercise, medication and checkups that include periodic measurement of blood sugar.

People with diabetes are prone to foot problems because, as we have seen, nerves and blood vessels can be seen damaged. A diabetic can suffer a stroke or an injury to one foot and not realize it, due to loss of sensitivity, until the infection is well advanced. A small infection in a normal case would easily treated here can result in necrosis would result in the amputation of the affected part.

The medical community stresses the importance of diabetes education in order to prevent any complications. For the proper care of feet is estimated that 75% of amputations could be avoided if adequate attention is paid on a regular basis:

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A few days ago took out a new edition of World Kidney Day, a date which seeks, among other things, that people fail to capture the importance of the kidneys for the proper functioning of the body and promote prevention behaviors. The following are mentioned more details about this international celebration this year had the theme “Protect your kidneys, to control diabetes.”

While all human body organs are desperately needed and each one fulfills a function, the kidneys are vital for human beings because they eliminate waste and toxins from the blood through urine, as reported in this blog.

Such is the importance of these bodies since 2006 has set a day in the year to inform and educate about its function and prevention.

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All over the world celebrated World Diabetes Day, a date important to make people aware about this disease. Organized jointly by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF, for its acronym in English) and the World Health Organization (WHO), this celebration took place on Saturday 14 November.

The World Diabetes Day is an important vehicle for all countries to ensure that people know the true magnitude of the problem of diabetes, a disease that currently affects approximately 220 million people, according to official figures published on the site WHO web.

How could it be otherwise, the secretary general of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon issued a message in the context of World Diabetes Day, which was published in full in the official website of the international organization.

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Diabetes is a disease that may have people of all ages (currently affects almost 220 million human beings in the world, said months ago this health blog). Then there will be a newspaper article about what there is to know about diabetes.

Diabetes is defined as a metabolic disorder that involves having blood glucose (sugar) levels above the levels set. Is taken as normal blood levels between 70 and 100 mg / dl fasting. When levels exceed these values, in chronic form begins with lesions in organs like the heart, eyes, kidneys, nerves, feet and blood vessels.

Importantly, there are different types of diabetes: Type 1 diabetes is characterized by the absence of synthesis of insulin in type 2 diabetes which has its origin in the body’s inability to effectively use the insulin (the most common and can be prevented) and the so-called “gestational diabetes” which was first discovered during the stage of pregnancy.

In another vein, it is necessary to add that there are certain factors that are associated with diabetes, obesity, stress, poor diet, family history and / or hypertension.

People with diabetes may reduce these risk factors and live a normal life. For this, you must acquire some patterns of behavior such as physical exercise, a controlled medication, a balanced diet as well as having a regular medical checks.

Explains research materials for the realization of this note, which was compiled by the website Cardiosalud.org, patients with this disease can achieve a good quality of life depending on the habits they acquire.

It is important to add that this disease affects about 220 million people, according to official figures published on the website of the World Health Organization (WHO) on the occasion of World Diabetes Day, which were published months ago in this blog.

Recently, in our health blog, we told you that stress is the epidemic of XXI century. Well, on this occasion, we have seen that there is another important relationship, diabetes, epidemic, as it is a disease that is widespread in society.

The truth, we can say that diabetes is an epidemic, since according to IDF (International Diabetes Federation) have it about 246 million people worldwide, a tremendous figure.

But for those who wonder what diabetes is, we can say that it is a chronic disease that is characterized by blood sugar levels high. To counter this excess sugar, diabetics (some, we) have to take insulin, a hormone produced by the pancreas and is necessary for life.

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