Evidence shows that many chronic metabolic diseases do. Your gut bacteria and the integrity of your gut lining strongly affect your health.

The good news is that prediabetes is reversible. Here’s what you’ll need to do:

Starting a wellness journey can be daunting, especially if it entails making major lifestyle shifts, such as changing the way you eat, adopting a sleep hygiene routine, or starting to exercise when you’ve been firmly planted on a couch.

Like most diets, some myths can ruin the experience of the diet and cause people not to get the most benefits from it. Let’s look at a few of these myths, but let’s also remember that your doctor or a nutritionist is the best source of information regarding your diet, based on your health concerns.

Intermittent fasting is an eating pattern where you cycle between periods of eating and fasting. It does not say anything about which foods to eat, but rather when you should eat them. There are several different intermittent fasting methods, all of which split the day or week into eating periods and fasting periods.

Sugar is getting a bad rap lately, especially with the rise of diets that naturally reduce your sugar intake, such as Paleo and Keto. However, is it really that bad?

Restrictive diets, calorie counting and those “2 am infomercials with those too good to be true’ fat burners are not the answer. By design, diets fail and the downside is that they make you feel like a failure when they do.

Sugar is one of many scientifically proven food additives that is addictive. Brain scans have shown that sugar activates the reward, pleasure and memory centers in the brain, in exactly the same way drugs, alcohol and social media do.