Diabetics Basics

Margie discusses the different types of diabetes, defines glucose and insulin and explains
how they work together, and talk sabout how the different macronutrients
metabolize and effect blood sugars. She then explores the role exercise
plays in diabetes, things to beware of for people on insulin, and then
discusses how to life peacefully with diabetes, with you controlling it,
rather than it controlling you. Margie mentions several websites that she wanted
to share:National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases at http://www.niddk.nih.gov/Comparison of the fast insulins at http://www.diabetesnet.com/diabetes_treatments/insulin_humalog.php#Humalog

Hot Topics in Sports Nutrition

Hyponatremia and fueling muscle development. Guest speaker Ellen Coleman, RD, MA, MPH is the nutrition consultant for The Sport Clinic in Riverside and author of Eating for Endurance 4th ed.

For anyone who wishes to contact Ellen privately, you can email her at Ecolemanrd@aol.com. The website she talked about at the end of the class is http://www.taketotalcontrol.com/TTC/default.aspx. For RD's who would like an online presentation of what the site to has offer, go to this
site: http://www.taketotalcontrol.com/presentations/dietitians/index.html

Exercise and Work Performance

Margie talks about how our energy and productive levels are effected by our
physical condition and how to make our days more productive through the
benefit of increased activity.

Power Foods: Add them up for Great Health

Do you know what foods provide the most power for their punch/calories?
Come join us to talk about the foods that should be in your diet on a regular
basis to be the healthiest you can be! This was not a live call.