How to Balance Blood Sugar and Heart Health During the Holidays

Dishing Up Nutrition

Nutritional Weight & Wellness, Inc.

Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Health & Fitness:nutrition, Nutrition

4.3 • 866 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Mel and Kara break down the simple, real-food strategies that help you enjoy the season without the blood sugar crashes, cravings, or cardiometabolic backslide. Learn how holiday habits impact triglycerides, HDL, and insulin sensitivity--and how small changes (like eating before an event, building balanced meals, and the 50% movement rule) can keep you energized, steady, and feeling your best. If you want to stay healthy without missing out on the fun, this episode gives you a practical plan you can actually follow.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition.
0:10.9	Our show today is brought to you by nutritional weight and wellness.
0:14.1	Our company provides science-based nutrition, education, and nutrition counseling.
0:19.2	I'm Melanie Beasley, a licensed dietitian, and I'm here today
0:22.0	with co-host Kara Carper. Good morning. Hi, everyone. Great to be with you as always Mel. I'm
0:28.3	Kara Carper. I'm a licensed nutritionist and certified nutrition specialist. So I'm really eager
0:34.5	to share today's topic with everyone because, as you know, the holiday season is coming up.
0:41.1	Chances are, if you're in the United States listening, you are about to go into the Thanksgiving weekend.
0:48.6	As we know, it kind of started with Halloween, right?
0:53.1	But it morphs into Thanksgiving, which is just really a one-day holiday. But that whole season just kind of sneaks into Christmas. And a lot of the celebrations are revolved around food and or drink. socializing with friends and family.
1:11.7	We hear about the struggles that our listeners have during this time of year.
1:16.5	Our show today is tips to manage health during the holidays.
1:21.0	The word health is pretty general, so Melanie is going to break that down for us.
1:26.0	So you can understand what our focus will be today.
1:28.4	Yep.
1:29.3	Two of the biggest concerns from my clients are how to keep their blood sugars in a healthy range,
1:35.4	either to prevent diabetes or to reverse pre-diabetes.
1:39.6	Some of them come to me, they already have diabetes.
1:41.8	So we need to manage that and get those blood sugars down.
1:45.1	And the other one is, since heart disease is still the number one cause of death in our country,
1:50.7	how can I keep all of my cardiovascular markers in range is the question. And that's what we want to do.
1:57.2	We're going to do it naturally. And we know that all the holiday food and the treats and the
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