Diabetes is an epidemic that is expanding around the world at a rapid pace. Here’s what the picture looks like in Canada: Every three minutes someone in Canada is diagnosed with diabetes At least 1 in 10 deaths in Canadian adults is a result of diabetes 29 per cent of Canadians have diabetes or pre-diabetes…

When it comes to getting your blood sugars moving in the right direction my top two dietary strategies are to eat low carb and high fat. Clearly we want to be putting less glucose into our systems for insulin to have to clean up and that means eating less carbohydrates. But when we eat less carbs,…

This time of year just begs us to don our big warm woolly sweaters, pack up the family and head down to the valley to take in the fall colours and pumpkin people, stop by a farm stand to stock up on the bounty of the fall harvest, and of course go apple picking. My…

  When I first thought about going low carb, I felt so restricted. Like there was hardly anything I could eat anymore. I was amazed to realize how many carbs I was eating at every meal. What was I going to eat instead of toast with breakfast, a wrap at lunch, crackers for a snack…