The Psychology of Spirituality
The Psychology of Spiritualityby Dr. Stephen Diamond
Christmas is once more upon us, celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ. Chanukkah too has started, celebrating a miraculous event occurring centuries before Christ (who, as a Jew, presumably celebrated Chanukkah) was born. Both--despite their commercialism--are prominent religious holidays in the Judeo-Christian tradition. So perhaps this is an
Christmas is once more upon us, celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ. Chanukkah too has started, celebrating a miraculous event occurring centuries before Christ (who, as a Jew, presumably celebrated Chanukkah) was born. Both--despite their commercialism--are prominent religious holidays in the Judeo-Christian tradition. So perhaps this is an
A Closer Look at Integral Theory
Adapted from the Drishti Centre for Integral Action website:
A Closer Look at Integral Theory
By Gail Hochachka
Integral is the farthest reach of inter-disciplinary to date. It links "divergent" disciplines (such as the natural sciences, economics, politics, culture, psychology, and spirituality), including both the exterior (objective) aspects of life with the interior invisible (subjective
A Closer Look at Integral Theory
By Gail Hochachka
Integral is the farthest reach of inter-disciplinary to date. It links "divergent" disciplines (such as the natural sciences, economics, politics, culture, psychology, and spirituality), including both the exterior (objective) aspects of life with the interior invisible (subjective
Visser on Wilber’s Views of Evolution
From Integral World:
The 'Spirit of Evolution' Reconsidered: Relating Ken Wilber's view of spiritual evolution to the current evolution debates
by Frank Visser
“In the case of any person whose judgment is really deserving of confidence, how has it become so? Because he has kept his mind open to criticism of his opinions and conduct. Because it has been his practice to listen to all that could
The 'Spirit of Evolution' Reconsidered: Relating Ken Wilber's view of spiritual evolution to the current evolution debates
by Frank Visser
“In the case of any person whose judgment is really deserving of confidence, how has it become so? Because he has kept his mind open to criticism of his opinions and conduct. Because it has been his practice to listen to all that could
Cultivating Postformal Adult Development
Cultivating Postformal Adult Development: Higher Stages and Contrasting InterventionsBy William R. TorbertAs this chapter will discuss, the practice of action inquiry and the Vedic/TM method are the only two educational interventions that have empirically been shown to facilitate adult developmental transformation beyond formal operations. The primary concern of this chapter is to present
Vitan and the New Age
Vitvan and the School of the Natural Order: New Age Culture with a Do It Yourself Ethicby Daniel Gustav AndersonAuthor's Note: This is a paper I presented at the 2010 Western Literature Association conference in Prescott, Arizona, USA. I think it offers some ways to advance the conversation in integral studies by considering some paths not yet taken, rather than strictly “new” developments:
Integral Methodological Pluralism in Practice
Integral Research as a Practical Mixed-Methods Framework: Clarifying The Role of Integral Methodological Pluralism
By Jeffery A. Martin
The mixed methods community could represent a significant opportunity to place Integral Theory at the very heart of the academy. Methodological communities often define what is and is not acceptable within academic research. Soon, the mixed methods community
By Jeffery A. Martin
The mixed methods community could represent a significant opportunity to place Integral Theory at the very heart of the academy. Methodological communities often define what is and is not acceptable within academic research. Soon, the mixed methods community
DeLanda on Deleuze
Deleuze and the Open-ended Becoming of the World
by Manuel DeLanda
With the final mathematization of classical physics in the nineteenth century, a certain picture of the world emerged dominant, one in which clockwork determinism reigned supreme and time played no creative role, so that the future was effectively closed, completely given in the past. Although the set of equations with which
by Manuel DeLanda
With the final mathematization of classical physics in the nineteenth century, a certain picture of the world emerged dominant, one in which clockwork determinism reigned supreme and time played no creative role, so that the future was effectively closed, completely given in the past. Although the set of equations with which
Water Blogged: Blog Action Day
From Archive Fire: Our deepest fears are not that we are inadequate, but that we are powerful beyond measure.Today is Blog Action Day 2010. This year's theme is WATER. Throughout the day I will be providing links to some of the best posts appearing online participating in Blog Action Day 2010. I’ll update this post often with new entries. Many of these posts are beautifully written, passionately
The Limit of Explanation
From Anthropoetics:
The Limit of Explanation: Following the "Why" to its Epistemological Terminus
By Marina Ludwigs
In this essay I will examine the theory and praxis of explanation and demonstrate the unsustainable character of its claims and underlying presuppositions. My involvement in this project stemmed originally from my interest in contributing to a development of a formal methodology
The Limit of Explanation: Following the "Why" to its Epistemological Terminus
By Marina Ludwigs
In this essay I will examine the theory and praxis of explanation and demonstrate the unsustainable character of its claims and underlying presuppositions. My involvement in this project stemmed originally from my interest in contributing to a development of a formal methodology
Quantifying Self
From WorldChanging: Media Tracking and the Quantified Self By Ethan ZuckermanGary Wolf and Kevin Kelly have been documenting an emerging phenomenon they call “the quantified self“. The term refers to a set experiments that people are conducting – primarily on themselves – to understand their own bodies and behavior. In an article for The New York Times Magazine, Wolf details a range of these
Integral Pluralisms and Cultural Pragmatics
I'm not sure if Dallmayr knows of Ken Wilber's work, but there seems to be no mention of the bald bastion of the Trans anywhere... It's truly hard to imagine he wouldn't have at least come accross mention of 'Integral Methodological Pluralism' somehwhere. Very suspicious indeed.
Integral Pluralism: Beyond Culture Warsby Fred Dallmayr, Integral Pluralism: Beyond Culture Wars, University of
Integral Pluralism: Beyond Culture Warsby Fred Dallmayr, Integral Pluralism: Beyond Culture Wars, University of
Getting Started... Soon...
I moved. That's my excuse for why I haven't seriously started this journey yet. But, come September 1st, I will go grocery shopping and come home with a bag full of pink ingredients, and probably some ice cream that isn't. In any case, I had a pink meal a few weeks ago at Baci & Abbracci, a great Italian restaurant my mom found in Williamsburg. We thought it was empty when we got there (didn't need reservations I guess) but it turns out they have a back yard - something that makes any meal taste better, in my opinion.
I wasn't starving when we got there, but I decided to order the beet & goat cheese gnocchi because it sounded just too perfect for my taste. And I'm glad I did! It came with a cream & spinach sauce (sounds heavy right?) but it was superb. And it was pink! I love beets, because they make things pinker, and they make things sweeter. It looked a lot like this dish from a restaurant in soho (which I found on someone else's blog, 89thandbroke.com):
The sauce was light and creamy, with the spinach adding a little dose of green to an otherwise mushy (in a good way!) dish. The gnocchi was soft and slightly chewy, with the cheese flavors coming through just enough. I did end up with a few leftovers, but let me tell you, it wasn't because I didn't like it enough to finish it!
I wasn't starving when we got there, but I decided to order the beet & goat cheese gnocchi because it sounded just too perfect for my taste. And I'm glad I did! It came with a cream & spinach sauce (sounds heavy right?) but it was superb. And it was pink! I love beets, because they make things pinker, and they make things sweeter. It looked a lot like this dish from a restaurant in soho (which I found on someone else's blog, 89thandbroke.com):
The sauce was light and creamy, with the spinach adding a little dose of green to an otherwise mushy (in a good way!) dish. The gnocchi was soft and slightly chewy, with the cheese flavors coming through just enough. I did end up with a few leftovers, but let me tell you, it wasn't because I didn't like it enough to finish it!
Diabetic Diet Facts (Diabetic Diets)
Diabetic Diets
Initially diabetes management and control may involve dietary changes alone. Diet is a vital component in your overall diabetes control program and to keep blood sugar levels under control, a diabetic diets strikes a balance among the carbohydrates, fats, and protein you eat, when you control your body functions through exercise and by using a diabetic diets, your pain and agony seems to diminish.
A diabetic diets must be a well-balanced meal plan tailored to your individual needs, tastes, activity level and life style, and its goal is to provide all the calories and nutrients the diabetic needs while keeping blood sugars as close to normal as possible. Diabetes is not a life sentence to a rigid and restrictive menu plan.
The diabetic diets basically involves limiting your carbohydrate intake in order to control your glucose levels. The recommended carbohydrate content of diabetic diets is 60%, fat content 30-35%. Another important characteristic of a diabetic diets is to eat regularly, at the same times each day, and to eat a consistent amount of calories each day; the diabetic diets is not only for diabetics: it is an excellent, balanced alternative for anyone.
Since the diabetic diets is one which is low in saturated fat and cholesterol, look for cookbooks that emphasize low-fat cooking, the diabetic diets is a bit stricter and calls for avoiding grains and fruit but you have about 30g of carbs daily. The ideal diabetic diets is also good for cholesterol with its emphasis on low fat
, high complex carbohydrate and high fiber.
The most important aspect of the diabetic diets is meal planning, your meal plan should be adjusted to take into account carbs sugars and fat in the diabetic food, the general principle is to control body fat means less sensitivity to Insulin, which keeps the blood sugar level in check.
Carbohydrate Counting offers suggestions and tips about how to eat carbohydrates while maintaining your insulin needs and diabetes control, by following a consistent diet control, a diabetic patient ought to be able to maintain good health in general, but you should remember that an effective control of diabetes requires an integrated approach which also includes exercise, weight control and a good diabetic diets.
When you have diabetes, your medications are your best friends, as they will help you keep your condition under control, remember that one of the main goals for a diabetic diets is to lower your weight and maintain it, to put it in simplified words, diabetic diets is a balanced healthy diet plan
which is vital for Diabetes treatment.
The diabetic diets is aimed at helping to control blood sugar levels, the less fluctuation, especially rapid release of glucose into the blood, the better, an adherence to a diabetic diets is an important aspect of controlling elevated blood sugar in patients with diabetes mellitus.
BY:Arturo
Diabetic Diets
Initially diabetes management and control may involve dietary changes alone. Diet is a vital component in your overall diabetes control program and to keep blood sugar levels under control, a diabetic diets strikes a balance among the carbohydrates, fats, and protein you eat, when you control your body functions through exercise and by using a diabetic diets, your pain and agony seems to diminish.
A diabetic diets must be a well-balanced meal plan tailored to your individual needs, tastes, activity level and life style, and its goal is to provide all the calories and nutrients the diabetic needs while keeping blood sugars as close to normal as possible. Diabetes is not a life sentence to a rigid and restrictive menu plan.
The diabetic diets basically involves limiting your carbohydrate intake in order to control your glucose levels. The recommended carbohydrate content of diabetic diets is 60%, fat content 30-35%. Another important characteristic of a diabetic diets is to eat regularly, at the same times each day, and to eat a consistent amount of calories each day; the diabetic diets is not only for diabetics: it is an excellent, balanced alternative for anyone.
Since the diabetic diets is one which is low in saturated fat and cholesterol, look for cookbooks that emphasize low-fat cooking, the diabetic diets is a bit stricter and calls for avoiding grains and fruit but you have about 30g of carbs daily. The ideal diabetic diets is also good for cholesterol with its emphasis on low fat
, high complex carbohydrate and high fiber.
The most important aspect of the diabetic diets is meal planning, your meal plan should be adjusted to take into account carbs sugars and fat in the diabetic food, the general principle is to control body fat means less sensitivity to Insulin, which keeps the blood sugar level in check.
Carbohydrate Counting offers suggestions and tips about how to eat carbohydrates while maintaining your insulin needs and diabetes control, by following a consistent diet control, a diabetic patient ought to be able to maintain good health in general, but you should remember that an effective control of diabetes requires an integrated approach which also includes exercise, weight control and a good diabetic diets.
When you have diabetes, your medications are your best friends, as they will help you keep your condition under control, remember that one of the main goals for a diabetic diets is to lower your weight and maintain it, to put it in simplified words, diabetic diets is a balanced healthy diet plan
which is vital for Diabetes treatment.
The diabetic diets is aimed at helping to control blood sugar levels, the less fluctuation, especially rapid release of glucose into the blood, the better, an adherence to a diabetic diets is an important aspect of controlling elevated blood sugar in patients with diabetes mellitus.
BY:Arturo
Diabetic Diets
Diabetic Diet Facts (Diabetic Diets)
Diabetic Diets
Initially diabetes management and control may involve dietary changes alone. Diet is a vital component in your overall diabetes control program and to keep blood sugar levels under control, a diabetic diets strikes a balance among the carbohydrates, fats, and protein you eat, when you control your body functions through exercise and by using a diabetic diets, your pain and agony seems to diminish.
A diabetic diets must be a well-balanced meal plan tailored to your individual needs, tastes, activity level and life style, and its goal is to provide all the calories and nutrients the diabetic needs while keeping blood sugars as close to normal as possible. Diabetes is not a life sentence to a rigid and restrictive menu plan.
The diabetic diets basically involves limiting your carbohydrate intake in order to control your glucose levels. The recommended carbohydrate content of diabetic diets is 60%, fat content 30-35%. Another important characteristic of a diabetic diets is to eat regularly, at the same times each day, and to eat a consistent amount of calories each day; the diabetic diets is not only for diabetics: it is an excellent, balanced alternative for anyone.
Since the diabetic diets is one which is low in saturated fat and cholesterol, look for cookbooks that emphasize low-fat cooking, the diabetic diets is a bit stricter and calls for avoiding grains and fruit but you have about 30g of carbs daily. The ideal diabetic diets is also good for cholesterol with its emphasis on low fat
, high complex carbohydrate and high fiber.
The most important aspect of the diabetic diets is meal planning, your meal plan should be adjusted to take into account carbs sugars and fat in the diabetic food, the general principle is to control body fat means less sensitivity to Insulin, which keeps the blood sugar level in check.
Carbohydrate Counting offers suggestions and tips about how to eat carbohydrates while maintaining your insulin needs and diabetes control, by following a consistent diet control, a diabetic patient ought to be able to maintain good health in general, but you should remember that an effective control of diabetes requires an integrated approach which also includes exercise, weight control and a good diabetic diets.
When you have diabetes, your medications are your best friends, as they will help you keep your condition under control, remember that one of the main goals for a diabetic diets is to lower your weight and maintain it, to put it in simplified words, diabetic diets is a balanced healthy diet plan
which is vital for Diabetes treatment.
The diabetic diets is aimed at helping to control blood sugar levels, the less fluctuation, especially rapid release of glucose into the blood, the better, an adherence to a diabetic diets is an important aspect of controlling elevated blood sugar in patients with diabetes mellitus.
BY:Arturo
Diabetic Diets
Initially diabetes management and control may involve dietary changes alone. Diet is a vital component in your overall diabetes control program and to keep blood sugar levels under control, a diabetic diets strikes a balance among the carbohydrates, fats, and protein you eat, when you control your body functions through exercise and by using a diabetic diets, your pain and agony seems to diminish.
A diabetic diets must be a well-balanced meal plan tailored to your individual needs, tastes, activity level and life style, and its goal is to provide all the calories and nutrients the diabetic needs while keeping blood sugars as close to normal as possible. Diabetes is not a life sentence to a rigid and restrictive menu plan.
The diabetic diets basically involves limiting your carbohydrate intake in order to control your glucose levels. The recommended carbohydrate content of diabetic diets is 60%, fat content 30-35%. Another important characteristic of a diabetic diets is to eat regularly, at the same times each day, and to eat a consistent amount of calories each day; the diabetic diets is not only for diabetics: it is an excellent, balanced alternative for anyone.
Since the diabetic diets is one which is low in saturated fat and cholesterol, look for cookbooks that emphasize low-fat cooking, the diabetic diets is a bit stricter and calls for avoiding grains and fruit but you have about 30g of carbs daily. The ideal diabetic diets is also good for cholesterol with its emphasis on low fat
, high complex carbohydrate and high fiber.
The most important aspect of the diabetic diets is meal planning, your meal plan should be adjusted to take into account carbs sugars and fat in the diabetic food, the general principle is to control body fat means less sensitivity to Insulin, which keeps the blood sugar level in check.
Carbohydrate Counting offers suggestions and tips about how to eat carbohydrates while maintaining your insulin needs and diabetes control, by following a consistent diet control, a diabetic patient ought to be able to maintain good health in general, but you should remember that an effective control of diabetes requires an integrated approach which also includes exercise, weight control and a good diabetic diets.
When you have diabetes, your medications are your best friends, as they will help you keep your condition under control, remember that one of the main goals for a diabetic diets is to lower your weight and maintain it, to put it in simplified words, diabetic diets is a balanced healthy diet plan
which is vital for Diabetes treatment.
The diabetic diets is aimed at helping to control blood sugar levels, the less fluctuation, especially rapid release of glucose into the blood, the better, an adherence to a diabetic diets is an important aspect of controlling elevated blood sugar in patients with diabetes mellitus.
BY:Arturo
Diabetic Diets
In Defence of Difference
“Scientists offer new insight into what to protect of the world's rapidly vanishing languages, cultures, and species.”
From SEED Magazine:
In Defense of Difference
by Maywa Montenegro & Terry Glavin
This past January, at the St. Innocent Russian Orthodox Cathedral in Anchorage, Alaska, friends and relatives gathered to bid their last farewell to Marie Smith Jones, a beloved matriarch of her
From SEED Magazine:
In Defense of Difference
by Maywa Montenegro & Terry Glavin
This past January, at the St. Innocent Russian Orthodox Cathedral in Anchorage, Alaska, friends and relatives gathered to bid their last farewell to Marie Smith Jones, a beloved matriarch of her
Integral Theory Conference - Enacting an Integral Future
It seems William Harryman of the outstanding Integral Options Café blog is the official blogger for the 2nd biannual Integral Theory Conference that began tonight July 29, 2010 in Pleasant Hill, California. The theme of the conference is ‘Enacting an Integral Future’ and it will continue until August 1, 2010.
Because Bill is, to our minds, one of the best bloggers out there, please visit his
Because Bill is, to our minds, one of the best bloggers out there, please visit his
The Pink Diet – A Brief Description
Mascot of the day: Crocheted pink bear cupcake
Why pink?
Good question. First of all, I have always loved pink. When I first had a favorite color, I would tell you it was pink & purple (each from one of my twin cousins, whom I idolized). Pink represents being a girl, and proud of it! Pink is a color that I've felt for a long time should be widely accepted as a professional branding, but is (unfairly) not.
Why the blog?
I've decided to start this blog as a record of my goal to stick to a 'pink diet'. This alone raises several questions, which I will attempt to answer before embarking on my diet journey both in part to clarify for others what it is I am doing (and why), as well as to set a few ground rules for myself.
First of all, pink foods tend to be healthy. For the purpose of this experiment I am defining "pink foods" as any food that is naturally pink in whole or in part, died pink with natural ingredients, or is an off shade of pink, like red or purple. That is, no red 40 food dye (my arch nemesis, as you will see!!) or other artificial colors. Secondly, pink has a lot of positive connotations (pinkeye aside) like awareness for breast cancer research. I don't have any personal goals with this worthy cause, but if there's any benefit to it that arises from this, all the better!
What's the goal?
This started out as an experiment just to see how much pink food I could come up with – and stomach – but even in discussing this goal it has begun to take on a life of its own. Pink food, as I've defined it above, includes lots of fruit and veggies, and includes a pretty well-rounded variety of foods. A brief brainstorm today with a friend of mine uncovered the following list of foods that fall into my category, which I'm sure will expand as I go about accomplishing this. Feel free to comment or send me more ideas for pink food!
My goal, to start, is to make one entirely pink meal a week, or more if I can, and see how far that gets me. If I find I have just too many food items to make I might adjust the goal, but for now it's an exercise in endurance. And honestly, I can't think of another kind of exercise that more appeals to me than one involving lots of food and pink things!
So have a look at the list of pink ingredients below, leave some feedback, and stay tuned!
- beets
- wine
- purple onions
- eggplant
- rhubarb
- radiccio
- radishes
- paprika
- guava
- grapefruit
- grapes
- feijoa?? (fay-YO-hah)
- most berries
- swiss chard
- birthday cake
- pink lemonade
- paprika egg salad
- fruit punch
- pink cocktails!
- purple yams/potoes
- purple carrots
- salmon
- purple cauliflower
- pomegranates
- asparagus
- indian corn
- purple cabbage!
- plums
- purple pasta
- pickled eggs?
- pink elephant as a last resort
- apple sauce
- pinkberry
- watermelon
- shell fish
- pork - meat in general
- tuna tartar
- sushi
- cherries
- pink lady apples
- candied flowers
- candy
- dates
- figs
- tarot
Chalmers on The Singularity
The Singularity: A Philosophical AnalysisBy David J. ChalmersWhat happens when machines become more intelligent than humans? One view is that this event will be followed by an explosion to ever-greater levels of intelligence, as each generation of machines creates more intelligent machines in turn. This intelligence explosion is now often known as the “singularity”.The basic argument here was
Infecting Minds
From MicrobeWorld.Org:Infecting Minds with Science in the Age of New MediaOn May 25th, 2010 science writer Carl Zimmer gave a keynote address at the American Society for Microbiology's General Meeting in San Diego, California. The presentation entitled “Newspapers, Blogs, and Other Vectors: Infecting Minds with Science in the Age of New Media” was given at the President’s Forum, “Telling the
Calling All Future-Eaters
Calling All Future-Eatersby Chris Hedges
The human species during its brief time on Earth has exhibited a remarkable capacity to kill itself off. The Cro-Magnons dispatched the gentler Neanderthals. The conquistadors, with the help of smallpox, decimated the native populations in the Americas. Modern industrial warfare in the 20th century took at least 100 million lives, most of them civilians.
The human species during its brief time on Earth has exhibited a remarkable capacity to kill itself off. The Cro-Magnons dispatched the gentler Neanderthals. The conquistadors, with the help of smallpox, decimated the native populations in the Americas. Modern industrial warfare in the 20th century took at least 100 million lives, most of them civilians.
Harryman is Warming to Slavoj Zizek…
From Integral Options Café:Another festival of Slavoj Zizek articles appeared this weekend, all of it from Europe, where people actually read philosophy. Oh yeah, he's a Marxist, sort of - with a heavy dose of Lacanian psychoanalysis and Hegelian philosophy - so that explains why no one on this continent is paying any attention to him.
Apparently Zizek's 'the world's hippest philosopher,' as the
Apparently Zizek's 'the world's hippest philosopher,' as the
Sperber and Hirschfeld on Culture, Cognition and Evolution
Culture, Cognition, and EvolutionBy Dan Sperber & Lawrence Hirschfeld
Most work in the cognitive sciences focuses on the manner in which an individual device -- be it a mind, a brain, or a computer -- processes various kinds of information. Cognitive psychology in particular is primarily concerned with individual thought and behavior. Individuals however belong to populations. This is true in two
Most work in the cognitive sciences focuses on the manner in which an individual device -- be it a mind, a brain, or a computer -- processes various kinds of information. Cognitive psychology in particular is primarily concerned with individual thought and behavior. Individuals however belong to populations. This is true in two
Organicism, AQAL and Integral Theory
Organicism
By Giorgio Piacenza Cabrera
Abstract: This paper presents Archie J. Bahm’s “Organicism” as a Second Tier Metatheory based upon the analysis of intuited polarity . It shows that AQAL (or Integral Metatheory) can benefit from a more deductive (and Metaphysical) approach that relates with the logical-relational aspects inhering at the core of Integral concepts such as “hierarchy” “
By Giorgio Piacenza Cabrera
Abstract: This paper presents Archie J. Bahm’s “Organicism” as a Second Tier Metatheory based upon the analysis of intuited polarity . It shows that AQAL (or Integral Metatheory) can benefit from a more deductive (and Metaphysical) approach that relates with the logical-relational aspects inhering at the core of Integral concepts such as “hierarchy” “
Diabetes and Diabetic Diets - Varying Approaches (Diabetic Diets)
Diabetic Diets
Individuals who suffer from diabetes are unable to produce insulin in the way a "normal" individual's body can. The result of this inability to produce insulin is an increase in blood-glucose levels. For these individuals, it may be beneficial to consider a change in diet and nutrition as a way of controlling and managing the body's blood-glucose levels.
For most diabetics, making intelligent choices about the foods they eat, and about eating habits in general, are two important factors in the successful management of their condition. Simply put, a well-planned and beneficial diabetic diets plan is one that limits sweets and sugars, eliminates frequent eating and overeating, and places a strong emphasis on the consumption of carbohydrates, whole grains, fruits, and vegetables, while avoiding other foods that are high in fat.
Diabetic Diets
Having diabetes does not mean that an individual has to resort to an extreme diet plan. Most diabetic cooking secrets center on the idea of making smart choices, and developing a well-planned course of attack.
Most of the time, the real secret lies with changing the types of foods that a diabetic eats, as well as the eating lifestyle, which often means portion control and planned mealtimes.
There is really no need for a diabetic to follow a strict diet plan. For the most part, developing a diet that consists of high amounts of beneficial nutrients, is low-calorie and also low-fat, is the best approach that a diabetic can take. Besides food choices, the other important factors that any diabetic must consider include regularly scheduled meals, as well as meals that are portioned and stay close to the suggested serving size.
One approach to changing a diet is the concept of counting carbohydrates, which can be beneficial for individuals taking insulin. Although keeping track of fats and proteins is not as high a priority as counting carbs is, individuals with diabetes should still carefully monitor their consumption of both fats and proteins.
Sweets Consumption
Having diabetes does mean the end of sweets. Although most people often worn diabetics to avoid sweets, most experts agree that the occasional sweet does not hurt. The main concern here is in making sure that sweets are consumed in controlled amounts,and that they do not upset the overall carbohydrate count for all of a day's meals. There is room it seems, for a little sweetness in a diabetic's life.
Vegetarian Diet
Some individuals strongly support the idea of a vegetarian diet as an approach to curing or controlling diabetes. Unfortunately, this is more of a misconception than anything else. Adding vegetables to a diabetic's diet is important, especially since eating a few vegetables a day has more benefits than not eating any at all.
There are no rules or diabetic cooking secrets that address a diet plan that includes vegetables. Most advice is based on common sense. In general, a vegetarian diet by nature, is high in fiber, low in fat, and low in terms of calories. Since a vegetarian diet typically contains less calories and less fat than a non-vegetarian diet, it makes sense to include some form of a vegetarian diet in any diabetic diets plan.
Although a vegetarian diet cannot cure diabetes, it can help. With proper food selection, a vegetarian-type diet can help a diabetic lose weight, which is especially important for those with type II diabetes.
An individual with diabetes who is considering changing his or her diet to a more vegetarian-type of diet should not go about the process alone. A visit to a doctor, dietician, or a nutrition expert can be an important first-step in developing the diet plan that will provide them with the most benefits, be it vegetarian or otherwise.
By: Liat Nachman
Diabetic Diets
Individuals who suffer from diabetes are unable to produce insulin in the way a "normal" individual's body can. The result of this inability to produce insulin is an increase in blood-glucose levels. For these individuals, it may be beneficial to consider a change in diet and nutrition as a way of controlling and managing the body's blood-glucose levels.
For most diabetics, making intelligent choices about the foods they eat, and about eating habits in general, are two important factors in the successful management of their condition. Simply put, a well-planned and beneficial diabetic diets plan is one that limits sweets and sugars, eliminates frequent eating and overeating, and places a strong emphasis on the consumption of carbohydrates, whole grains, fruits, and vegetables, while avoiding other foods that are high in fat.
Diabetic Diets
Having diabetes does not mean that an individual has to resort to an extreme diet plan. Most diabetic cooking secrets center on the idea of making smart choices, and developing a well-planned course of attack.
Most of the time, the real secret lies with changing the types of foods that a diabetic eats, as well as the eating lifestyle, which often means portion control and planned mealtimes.
There is really no need for a diabetic to follow a strict diet plan. For the most part, developing a diet that consists of high amounts of beneficial nutrients, is low-calorie and also low-fat, is the best approach that a diabetic can take. Besides food choices, the other important factors that any diabetic must consider include regularly scheduled meals, as well as meals that are portioned and stay close to the suggested serving size.
One approach to changing a diet is the concept of counting carbohydrates, which can be beneficial for individuals taking insulin. Although keeping track of fats and proteins is not as high a priority as counting carbs is, individuals with diabetes should still carefully monitor their consumption of both fats and proteins.
Sweets Consumption
Having diabetes does mean the end of sweets. Although most people often worn diabetics to avoid sweets, most experts agree that the occasional sweet does not hurt. The main concern here is in making sure that sweets are consumed in controlled amounts,and that they do not upset the overall carbohydrate count for all of a day's meals. There is room it seems, for a little sweetness in a diabetic's life.
Vegetarian Diet
Some individuals strongly support the idea of a vegetarian diet as an approach to curing or controlling diabetes. Unfortunately, this is more of a misconception than anything else. Adding vegetables to a diabetic's diet is important, especially since eating a few vegetables a day has more benefits than not eating any at all.
There are no rules or diabetic cooking secrets that address a diet plan that includes vegetables. Most advice is based on common sense. In general, a vegetarian diet by nature, is high in fiber, low in fat, and low in terms of calories. Since a vegetarian diet typically contains less calories and less fat than a non-vegetarian diet, it makes sense to include some form of a vegetarian diet in any diabetic diets plan.
Although a vegetarian diet cannot cure diabetes, it can help. With proper food selection, a vegetarian-type diet can help a diabetic lose weight, which is especially important for those with type II diabetes.
An individual with diabetes who is considering changing his or her diet to a more vegetarian-type of diet should not go about the process alone. A visit to a doctor, dietician, or a nutrition expert can be an important first-step in developing the diet plan that will provide them with the most benefits, be it vegetarian or otherwise.
By: Liat Nachman
Diabetic Diets
Diabetes and Diabetic Diets - Varying Approaches (Diabetic Diets)
Diabetic Diets
Individuals who suffer from diabetes are unable to produce insulin in the way a "normal" individual's body can. The result of this inability to produce insulin is an increase in blood-glucose levels. For these individuals, it may be beneficial to consider a change in diet and nutrition as a way of controlling and managing the body's blood-glucose levels.
For most diabetics, making intelligent choices about the foods they eat, and about eating habits in general, are two important factors in the successful management of their condition. Simply put, a well-planned and beneficial diabetic diets plan is one that limits sweets and sugars, eliminates frequent eating and overeating, and places a strong emphasis on the consumption of carbohydrates, whole grains, fruits, and vegetables, while avoiding other foods that are high in fat.
Diabetic Diets
Having diabetes does not mean that an individual has to resort to an extreme diet plan. Most diabetic cooking secrets center on the idea of making smart choices, and developing a well-planned course of attack.
Most of the time, the real secret lies with changing the types of foods that a diabetic eats, as well as the eating lifestyle, which often means portion control and planned mealtimes.
There is really no need for a diabetic to follow a strict diet plan. For the most part, developing a diet that consists of high amounts of beneficial nutrients, is low-calorie and also low-fat, is the best approach that a diabetic can take. Besides food choices, the other important factors that any diabetic must consider include regularly scheduled meals, as well as meals that are portioned and stay close to the suggested serving size.
One approach to changing a diet is the concept of counting carbohydrates, which can be beneficial for individuals taking insulin. Although keeping track of fats and proteins is not as high a priority as counting carbs is, individuals with diabetes should still carefully monitor their consumption of both fats and proteins.
Sweets Consumption
Having diabetes does mean the end of sweets. Although most people often worn diabetics to avoid sweets, most experts agree that the occasional sweet does not hurt. The main concern here is in making sure that sweets are consumed in controlled amounts,and that they do not upset the overall carbohydrate count for all of a day's meals. There is room it seems, for a little sweetness in a diabetic's life.
Vegetarian Diet
Some individuals strongly support the idea of a vegetarian diet as an approach to curing or controlling diabetes. Unfortunately, this is more of a misconception than anything else. Adding vegetables to a diabetic's diet is important, especially since eating a few vegetables a day has more benefits than not eating any at all.
There are no rules or diabetic cooking secrets that address a diet plan that includes vegetables. Most advice is based on common sense. In general, a vegetarian diet by nature, is high in fiber, low in fat, and low in terms of calories. Since a vegetarian diet typically contains less calories and less fat than a non-vegetarian diet, it makes sense to include some form of a vegetarian diet in any diabetic diets plan.
Although a vegetarian diet cannot cure diabetes, it can help. With proper food selection, a vegetarian-type diet can help a diabetic lose weight, which is especially important for those with type II diabetes.
An individual with diabetes who is considering changing his or her diet to a more vegetarian-type of diet should not go about the process alone. A visit to a doctor, dietician, or a nutrition expert can be an important first-step in developing the diet plan that will provide them with the most benefits, be it vegetarian or otherwise.
By: Liat Nachman
Diabetic Diets
Individuals who suffer from diabetes are unable to produce insulin in the way a "normal" individual's body can. The result of this inability to produce insulin is an increase in blood-glucose levels. For these individuals, it may be beneficial to consider a change in diet and nutrition as a way of controlling and managing the body's blood-glucose levels.
For most diabetics, making intelligent choices about the foods they eat, and about eating habits in general, are two important factors in the successful management of their condition. Simply put, a well-planned and beneficial diabetic diets plan is one that limits sweets and sugars, eliminates frequent eating and overeating, and places a strong emphasis on the consumption of carbohydrates, whole grains, fruits, and vegetables, while avoiding other foods that are high in fat.
Diabetic Diets
Having diabetes does not mean that an individual has to resort to an extreme diet plan. Most diabetic cooking secrets center on the idea of making smart choices, and developing a well-planned course of attack.
Most of the time, the real secret lies with changing the types of foods that a diabetic eats, as well as the eating lifestyle, which often means portion control and planned mealtimes.
There is really no need for a diabetic to follow a strict diet plan. For the most part, developing a diet that consists of high amounts of beneficial nutrients, is low-calorie and also low-fat, is the best approach that a diabetic can take. Besides food choices, the other important factors that any diabetic must consider include regularly scheduled meals, as well as meals that are portioned and stay close to the suggested serving size.
One approach to changing a diet is the concept of counting carbohydrates, which can be beneficial for individuals taking insulin. Although keeping track of fats and proteins is not as high a priority as counting carbs is, individuals with diabetes should still carefully monitor their consumption of both fats and proteins.
Sweets Consumption
Having diabetes does mean the end of sweets. Although most people often worn diabetics to avoid sweets, most experts agree that the occasional sweet does not hurt. The main concern here is in making sure that sweets are consumed in controlled amounts,and that they do not upset the overall carbohydrate count for all of a day's meals. There is room it seems, for a little sweetness in a diabetic's life.
Vegetarian Diet
Some individuals strongly support the idea of a vegetarian diet as an approach to curing or controlling diabetes. Unfortunately, this is more of a misconception than anything else. Adding vegetables to a diabetic's diet is important, especially since eating a few vegetables a day has more benefits than not eating any at all.
There are no rules or diabetic cooking secrets that address a diet plan that includes vegetables. Most advice is based on common sense. In general, a vegetarian diet by nature, is high in fiber, low in fat, and low in terms of calories. Since a vegetarian diet typically contains less calories and less fat than a non-vegetarian diet, it makes sense to include some form of a vegetarian diet in any diabetic diets plan.
Although a vegetarian diet cannot cure diabetes, it can help. With proper food selection, a vegetarian-type diet can help a diabetic lose weight, which is especially important for those with type II diabetes.
An individual with diabetes who is considering changing his or her diet to a more vegetarian-type of diet should not go about the process alone. A visit to a doctor, dietician, or a nutrition expert can be an important first-step in developing the diet plan that will provide them with the most benefits, be it vegetarian or otherwise.
By: Liat Nachman
Diabetic Diets
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