Anyone who has diabetes would be familiar with the various terminology around navigating how to eat, but a lot of us are left scratching our heads over which ranking system is the right one to base our choices on. Two of the most pertinent frames of reference are glycemic index and glycemic load – both
Diabetes is becoming the biggest epidemic of the 21st century as every year, about 18 million people die from cardiovascular disease, caused by diabetes and hypertension. More than 1.8 billion adults worldwide are overweight today, with 312 million of them being obese. As per the International Diabetes Federation’s estimates, the prevalence of Diabetes will see
Type 1 diabetes occurs when the pancreas is unable to produce any or enough sugar-lowering hormone and becomes a lifelong condition once it develops during childhood. Type 2 diabetes is a reversible chronic condition, where genetic, age and weight-related factors combine to cause resistance to the sugar-lowering hormone. Even though type 1 and type 2
Water fasting has been going on for at least 5,000, 6,000 years that we know. The Bible mentions it, and in almost all other spiritual practices you’ll find that people water fast. Water is pretty unique and but the question is why we should water fast? Why would someone water fast? What’re the benefits of
Many cultures/religions include some fasting. The main reason for fasting is the same in all of these beliefs: Physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual healing; resetting. Fasting is nature’s way of allowing your body to heal itself, and that rest is essential to the success of the process. When you stop eating (start fasting) all the
Here at The LifeCo we do quite a few things to help people to facilitate their weight loss. One of the first things that we do when people come is we put them on a program called the Master Detox. On the Master Detox we are actually working on 2 mechanisms. First and foremost, we
Producer couple of the documentary “The Truth About Cancer” (TTAC) Ty and Charlene Bollinger have been our guests at The LifeCo Phuket and we were featured in the episode “Thailand: Land of Smile”. TTAC Part 2 focuses on cancer prevention, treatment and recovery methods applied in Asia and each episode features a different country. They
If you want to improve your health and change your unnatural lifestyle, ‘the holistic health approach to detox’ can be something you would need. If you ever wonder how the effects of healthy eating and detoxification became so effective, the simple answer to this question goes back to history. When you look at history, you
There are a lot of aspects to aging, but when we talk about how to slow down aging, we also need to discuss hormones. Let’s start with an example. If you take a ten year old boy and a ten year old girl, cut their hair to the same length and let them only wear
When we go through the natural detoxification of the body, we have to consider the liver, lungs, colon, kidneys, skin and much more. So, all these parts of the body need to function well, or else the body won’t be able to detoxify as properly as we wanted it to be. Let’s talk about how