What happens when a poor or inaccurate body image badly impairs your ability to make the best decisions for your health? The obvious answer is the worldwide health challenge -- the obesity epidemic -- we face today.
Because proper weight management is one of the keys in treating diabetes, researchers polled some 2,500 diabetes patients to determine if they really understood what constitutes a healthy body weight. Unfortunately, the perceptions of patients, as evidenced by the numbers, were largely wrong.
Fact is, diabetes and obesity are very treatable conditions, but both will take much work on your end to control. Eating the right foods for your body's unique nutritional type and getting the right amount of exercise and sleep will certainly help you gain control over both.
Additionally, an inaccurate perception of your body image is a marker of the deeper emotional challenges that can also cripple your health. Fortunately, there are safe tools like the Emotional Freedom Technique you can learn to pierce those emotional barriers.
Diabetes Care, Vol. 29, No. 3, March 2006: 695-697
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