Why Your Blood Sugar May Spike Even When You’re Trying to Eat Healthy

You have been making better choices. You are eating more fruits and vegetables. You may have cut back on sweets, started choosing whole grains, or stopped drinking sugary beverages. You are paying more attention to what you eat. And yet, when you check your blood sugar, the number may still be higher than you expected. […]
Why You Wake Up Tired Even After a Full Night’s Sleep

You went to bed at a reasonable time. You got seven or eight hours of sleep. The alarm goes off, and somehow you still wake up feeling like you barely slept at all. Maybe you hit snooze several times. Maybe you need coffee before you feel fully functional. Or maybe the tiredness follows you well […]
Introducing CooperWellMD: What’s New at Cooper Wellness Center
If you have been part of the Cooper Wellness Center community, you may have noticed something different lately. Our digital wellness programs and mobile app now go by a new name: CooperWellMD. Here is what that means, and what stays exactly the same. Why We Became CooperWellMD Cooper Wellness Center has always been about one […]
5 Morning Routine Habits That Make the Rest of Your Day Easier

The first hour of your day sets the tone for everything that follows. Before you have made a single food choice, your morning routine has already started shaping your energy, your blood sugar, and how easy or hard the rest of your day is going to feel. The good news is that a better morning […]
Insulin Resistance and Weight Loss: Why You Feel Stuck

You are eating better. You are moving more. You are doing everything you have been told to do, and the scale still will not budge. The connection between insulin resistance and weight loss may explain why your efforts are not producing the results you expected. If that sounds familiar, you are not failing, and you […]
Tired, Craving Sugar, or Stuck at the Same Weight? Here’s What Might Really Be Going On

Sometimes your body sends little signals long before anything shows up on a lab test. An afternoon crash. A craving you can’t shake. Weight that won’t move no matter what you try. These can all be everyday insulin resistance symptoms, more common than you’d think, and they’re often connected to something simple: how your body […]
The most important factor for weight loss

Happy New Year Friends, Let’s talk about it. Weight loss is hard. We have to battle the demons of those delectable treats we’ve grown to love, the stress of life, the emotional pain or trauma we may have experienced and a host of other things in order to sustain the work of losing weight. The […]
How to lose weight while always feeling full

Here’s the fact we know: in order to lose weight, your caloric intake needs to be less then present. If you find yourself being overweight, it means that you are consuming more calories than your body can efficiently metabolize. However another fact is that: if you don’t feel full after eating, you are more likely […]