"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good."
Author: Jacquie
Keep using your glucose meter every day, focus on drinking more water, and be especially aware of any drinks that contain sugar, including fruit and vegetable juices. Hint: Check the label for carbohydrate content per serving. We are convinced that sugar—especially refined sugar, but “natural” sugars as well—must be totally eliminated from the dietary protocol … Continue reading Establish Essential Habits: Eliminate All Sugar
“Water is the best liquid possible to cleanse the tissues.” —Ellen White Primary Goal: To discover the optimum amount of water that you should drink, adjust as needed, and then maintain that amount throughout each day. Secondary Goal: To decrease/eliminate consumption of sweetened beverages (regular or diet) and fruit/vegetable juices and replace with plain water. … Continue reading Establish Essential Habits: Drink Sufficient Water
Once you have started to Learn About Diabetes, you should establish Five Essential Habits that will provide the foundation for your success. Regardless of your dietary lifestyle (vegan, vegetarian, or Adventist non-vegetarian) or diabetes dietary protocol (ADA, LCHF, WFPB, etc.), it is vital that you establish these daily habits: Master Use of Your Glucometer Drink Sufficient Water Eliminate … Continue reading Establish Essential Habits: Master Use of Your Glucometer
Today begins the first full week of January 2021, so it's a good time to review the "Getting Started" section in our Adventist Vegetarian Diabetics™ website. It's found at Next you can jump right in to Learn About Diabetes, including Diabetes Types. (Click on the hyperlinks to access the full articles.) For Learn About Diabetes, … Continue reading Getting Started: Learn About Diabetes
As I write this (on 12/31/2020), I realize that the year 2020 will be over in less than 24 hours! But that doesn't mean that all the problems of the past calendar year will disappear at the stroke of midnight. Many are saying that things will get worse before they even begin to get better. … Continue reading Happy New Year 2021!
Goals: To focus on the seriousness of diabetes, its complications and consequences, and gain new understandings of how to prevent them in your own life. To gain inspiration from the success stories of other diabetics. To share your own success story! Read this article and view the 9-minute video: HOW TO EAT FOR DIABETES Do … Continue reading November is Diabetes Awareness Month
Goal: To reduce or eliminate processed foods from your dietary protocol. Unprocessed food is any food that could be made by a person with reasonable skill in a home kitchen with whole-food ingredients. For one month, take this challenge. Adventist Vegetarian Diabetics recommends: Make a list of what you eat that you would consider “processed foods.” Determine … Continue reading October Is Unprocessed Foods Month
On January 28, 2015, I posted in this blog: "I checked Facebook one more time, and there was an invitation to join a newly created Facebook group, NEWSTART® Insights! The admin, apparently who is the face of the NEWSTART® Lifestyle Program Page, took me seriously when I posted on their page earlier this month and suggested … Continue reading NEWSTART® Insights Is Closing
The farther we get into the year 2020, the more stressful situations it seems we have to deal with. As if the political climate weren't enough, the country is having to face and survive hurricanes, fires, floods, power outages, windstorms, air filled with smoke and ash, and other "acts of God" that destroy our peace. … Continue reading Reducing Stress in Difficult Times
"All true obedience comes from the heart. It was heart work with Christ. And if we consent, He will so identify Himself with our thoughts and aims, so blend our hearts and minds into conformity to His will, that when obeying Him we shall be but carrying out our own impulses. The will, refined and … Continue reading If We Consent
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