A Winning Hand
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A plan from the American Diabetes Association and the US Public Health Service to help diabetics manage blood sugar through portion control.
What is the Exchange System?
An essential step in understanding your overall health.
What is measuring fat percentage and muscle density?
Use more than one type of lettuce.
What is the first salad tip learned by the author?
They can benefit from physical activity, especially if they are careful about the intensity level and build up slowly.
Who are people with chronic conditions?
When SAD tends to begin.
What is young adulthood?
The number of calorie-level options offer in the exchange system.
What is 5?
A tool used to pinch the skin at seven specific points to estimate fat layers and fitness.
What are skinfold calipers?
What is the traditional salad combo?
What are cucumbers, tomatoes, and carrots?
Moderate physical activity for 90 minutes a week can significantly lower the risk of heart disease in people with this condition.
What is high blood pressure?
The typical length of time SAD symptoms last.
What is five months?
The number of food groups included in each calorie level.
What is 7?
Tracking these helps assess your fitness progress in a more comprehensive way.
What are body fat and muscle density?
The texture that a good salad should have, created by the addition of things like nuts, seeds, croutons, or crackers.
What is crunch?
Physical activity can help manage this, while inactivity can lead to more of it, along with a loss of function.
What is pain?
A much less common form of SAD.
What is summer-pattern SAD?
Pam Shattuck says using the Exchange System is like having these.
What are guardrails?
It improves both strength and metabolism.
What is high muscle density?
Adding this ingredient might help you use less dressing by naturally sweetening and flavoring the salad mix.
What is fruit? (Dried or fresh)
Physical activity reduces the risks of health conditions that can contribute to this age-related condition.
What is age-related cognitive decline?
A treatment that addresses the psychological underlying SAD.
What is CBT (Cognitive-behavioral therapy)?
Where you can get more ideas or support?
What is TOPS Exchange Lifestyle Change" Facebook Page?
It is often assessed indirectly through methods as MRI or CT scans.
What is muscle density?
This should be added if you are making your salad a meal.
What is protein?
Leftover chicken, can of tuna, leftover steak or barbecue pork, hardboiled eggs.
A program that helps you learn to exercise and manage your disease with physical activity and counseling.
What is pulmonary rehabilitation?
It is a common therapy for SAD, but must be done daily and has been shown to last one or two winters less than CBT.
What is light therapy?