Thought Back on Track
A Surprising Fix for Aches and Pains
The Solution Could Be in Your Kitchen
1. Cut out sugary drinks. Skip energy drinks, soda, juice, and sweet tea in favor of water or unsweetened beverages. Taking this step may also drop your body fat percentage — a win-win for pain reduction. 2. Choose complex carbs over processed carbs. If white rice, pasta, and white bread are a regular part of your diet, swap them out for whole grains, sweet potatoes, beans, and lentils to bring your blood sugar down. 3. Pair up your carbs. Megan Asterino-McGeean, a nurse and diabetes educator, told Cleveland Clinic that all carbs “need a chaperone.” She recommends pairing them with leafy greens and lean proteins like chicken, turkey, white fish, beans, peas, or lentils. You can try switching up your diet on your own, but if you have other health concerns like diabetes, talk to your doctor before making drastic changes. Hopefully, by working together, you can reduce your pain without adding another pill to your daily regimen!
Do you suffer from chronic pain? Does every paper cut, stubbed toe, and pulled muscle seem to hit you harder than your friends and family? Do you wake up with random body aches that you’ve chalked up to aging? If you answered “yes” to one or more of those questions, the solution to your problem might be in an unexpected place: your blood. According to a new study published in The Journal of Pain, high blood sugar can actually increase your pain sensitivity. To discover this, researchers asked 44 people to plunge their feet into basins of cold water for one minute. The participants who ingested glucose (sugar) before taking the chilly plunge reacted more drastically to the cold water. People carrying more body fat also showed higher pain sensitivity. What does this mean for you? Well, if you struggle with pain daily and have high blood sugar and/or a high body fat percentage, you may be able to reduce your aches and pains simply by tweaking a few things in your diet. According to the Cleveland Clinic, you can make changes right now to lower your blood sugar naturally.
THE NEW YEAR IS HERE
So Don’t Forget to Update Your Estate Plan!
The new year has finally arrived, and for many, it is a time for reflection on the past year and previous goals. We have to determine where our priorities lie and ensure that we are doing everything in our power to ensure they remain our primary focus. During this moment of reflection, take some time to think about all of the changes you may have gone through. Have you updated your estate plan to accurately reflect any significant life changes you’ve recently experienced? If not, now is the perfect time to do so.
well-known of which is a change in the family dynamic. If you’ve gone through a divorce, you probably want to update your estate plan to ensure your assets go to the proper person, especially if you remarried. If you welcomed a new child or grandchild into your family, you might want to include them in your plans. Conversely, if someone in your family passed away or became untrustworthy, you may want to remove them altogether. Additionally, you may need to update your estate plan if you’ve undergone extreme lifestyle changes. You’ll need to update your plan if you’ve recently sold an asset such as
real estate or a business or if your estate has increased or decreased in value.
Even if you have not experienced a dramatic life change, you should still make an effort to review your estate plan every three years. Your feelings about beneficiaries, trustees, or executors may change with time, which should prompt an update to the plan outlining who’s in charge or who receives what. If you have any questions about your estate plan or need to create one, please give us a call today. We are more than happy to help you with your estate planning needs!
There are various circumstances that require an update to your estate plan, the most
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