Blood sugar is also called blood glucose. It’s the amount of sugar in your blood that’s taken from food to give you energy. Blood sugar levels spike when you eat and should settle down with an hour. They are often at their lowest in the morning, which is why we feel lethargic and rubbish until breakfast.  Know Your High Blood Sugar from Your Low Blood Sugar High blood ... Continue Reading
Why Reaching Your Fitness Goals is Primarily about Diet
Everyone has a different fitness goal. Maybe you want to improve flexibility. Maybe you want to bench more weight. Or perhaps you’re trying to lose some fluff around your midsection. You might be tempted to think that physical exercise will get you to your goal. And while that’s a big part of the equation, it’s not the only part. Consider the Extremes How would you feel if ... Continue Reading
Good Carbs Vs Bad Carbs – Know the Difference
One of the many problems with dieting is the speed with which popular diets rise into favor, only to be disproven soon after. You only need to recall the Atkins diet frenzy and subsequent swift downfall to appreciate the issues with fad dieting. One day protein is good, the next day it's not. One expert claims that fats are good, while some programs maintain that they are bad ... Continue Reading
Good Carbs: Foods You Should Eat for Endurance
Despite all the hate that carbs get, there are benefits to eating the right kind of carbs. Learn more about the good carbs your body needs at BeWellBuzz. An August 2015 study suggests carbs have played a much bigger role in the evolution of the human brain than originally suspected. Up until now most of our advancement has been attributed to the proteins gathered through ... Continue Reading
(Yummy) Carbs that Burn Fat and Increase Insulin Sensitivity
(BeWellBuzz) Carbohydrates got a bad rap in the past decade, but if we were all eating broccoli, All-Bran and sprouted wheat bread with our grass-fed beef, would we have an obesity problem? The most dangerous carbs are those refined, processed, starchy or filled with sugar, providing little-to-no fiber, which absorb rapidly into your blood stream as glucose and offer no ... Continue Reading