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Insulin in history

This is how insulin became entrenched in the lives of people with diabetes.

1921 saw the discovery of insulin by an Orthopaedic Surgeon, Frederick Banting. The first human treatment was in 1922 and Frederick Banting won a Nobel Prize for his discovery and work in 1923.

The introduction of insulin turned lives around, particularly for those with Type 1 diabetes.

Now, too many people take too much insulin and they don’t have to. Insulin moves the glucose carbohydrate that is eaten into the tissue. It’s almost as simple as that. If you have T1 or T2, you effectively don’t have enough effective insulin working so more is given for what you eat. That equals chasing your tail – a never ending story.

Reducing the sugar and carbohydrate load means less medication, less hypolglycaemic episodes and llowere blood glucose spikes that cause the long term damage.

Reducing the sugar and carbohydrate load means less medication, less hypoglycaemic episodes and lower blood glucose spikes that cause the long term damage.

Need some help. www.nutritionforlife.healthcare for the individualised nutrition and diabetes educator support?

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What is LCHF?

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What does Low Carb Healthy Fat living mean on a day to day basis?

What do you eat? What do you eat for breakfast? Won’t I be hungry?

What are LCHF principles?

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I get these questions all the time. This is our Nutrition for Life LCHF food pyramid. A picture describes a 1000 words.

LCHF principles encourage you to eat a wide variety of fresh, seasonal and local food, including lots of vegetables (especially green leafy ones), moderate amounts of protein and reintroducing small amounts of healthy natural fats. Not too much but generally more than people used to have.

This is a way of living. LCHF is not a diet and it is certainly not a fad. It is based on traditional ways of eating that hold food that is fresh, seasonal and local central in the eating plan.

This way of eating allows you to reduce highly processed foods and added sugars from your diet, while keeping you feeling energised and healthy, and not hungry. Isn’t it worth a try and then make up your own mind.

Everyone is different and getting the nutritional balance and variety may take some time. We are seeing a lot of people that are doing LCHF but over time need some ‘fine tuning’ or some further support and motivation. Making big life changes as an individual or as a family can be difficult and getting the right information that is individualized is not that easy on the internet.

Here’s the plug for our Nutrition for Life team. They are there to teach, support and motivate. They are ‘buzzing’ as a team of professionals getting the results from helping people Choose Health and getting get their lives back on track.

“At Nutrition for Life, we offer a simple and sustainable approach to ‘eating for health’ in a safe and nurturing environment. We offer a wraparound team care approach based on Lower Carbohydrate and Healthy natural Fat (LCHF) principles.

Our qualified team of health professionals provide tips for adopting LCHF principles, including food swaps and recipe ideas, how to read food labels and supermarket tips with budgeting and meal planning. We promote mindfulness, motivation and goal setting during individual, couple and family consultations and also via Skype for regional Tasmania and interstate.

The team at Nutrition for Life provide personalised nutritional advice and dietary care in an evidence-based practice. Our approach involves an assessment of individual goals, needs and medical conditions, and applies the latest science and research to help our clients take back control of their health.

We understand that everyone’s journey is different and we take this into account when giving nutritional advice. We encourage and support our clients to apply mindful eating principles and believe in the non-diet approach. Who wants to feel hungry?

Please call our friendly team on 03 6301 9096 or email info@nutritionforlife.healthcare so we can help you take back control of your health today. www.nutritionforlife.healthcare “

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What are LCHF principles?

What does Low Carb Healthy Fat living mean on a day to day basis?

What do you eat? What do you eat for breakfast? Won’t I be hungry?

What are LCHF principles?

I get these questions all the time. This is our Nutrition for Life LCHF food pyramid. A picture describes a 1000 words.

LCHF principles encourage you to eat a wide variety of fresh, seasonal and local food, including lots of vegetables (especially green leafy ones), moderate amounts of protein and reintroducing small amounts of healthy natural fats. Not too much but generally more than people used to have.

This is a way of living. LCHF is not a diet and it is certainly not a fad. It is based on traditional ways of eating that hold food that is fresh, seasonal and local central in the eating plan.

This way of eating allows you to reduce highly processed foods and added sugars from your diet, while keeping you feeling energised and healthy, and not hungry. Isn’t it worth a try and then make up your own mind.

Everyone is different and getting the nutritional balance and variety may take some time. We are seeing a lot of people that are doing LCHF but over time need some ‘fine tuning’ or some further support and motivation. Making big life changes as an individual or as a family can be difficult and getting the right information that is individualized is not that easy on the internet.

Here’s the plug for our Nutrition for Life team. They are there to teach, support and motivate. They are ‘buzzing’ as a team of professionals getting the results from helping people Choose Health and getting get their lives back on track.

“At Nutrition for Life, we offer a simple and sustainable approach to ‘eating for health’ in a safe and nurturing environment. We offer a wraparound team care approach based on Lower Carbohydrate and Healthy natural Fat (LCHF) principles.

Our qualified team of health professionals provide tips for adopting LCHF principles, including food swaps and recipe ideas, how to read food labels and supermarket tips with budgeting and meal planning. We promote mindfulness, motivation and goal setting during individual, couple and family consultations and also via Skype for regional Tasmania and interstate.

The team at Nutrition for Life provide personalised nutritional advice and dietary care in an evidence-based practice. Our approach involves an assessment of individual goals, needs and medical conditions, and applies the latest science and research to help our clients take back control of their health.

We understand that everyone’s journey is different and we take this into account when giving nutritional advice. We encourage and support our clients to apply mindful eating principles and believe in the non-diet approach. Who wants to feel hungry?

Please call our friendly team on 03 6301 9096 or email info@nutritionforlife so we can help you take back control of your health today. www.nutritionforlife.healthcare “

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Marion Nestle

“Soda Politics in the US: Lessons from the food movement in action”

Professor Marion Nestle speaking at Sydney Uni now. I was introduced as the Tassie Devil 😎

Should be a good evening with friends with like minds.

Full fat dairy – get it in to avoid obesity.

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Full fat dairy intake protective for developing obesity in women. That’s good news.
 
A prospective study over a mean of 11.2 years on 18438 women revealed that 44.6% of the study group became overweight or obese. They were normal weight to start with. That’s a scary proportion.
 
You were most likely to NOT put on weight if you had a higher full fat dairy content in your diet.
 
“Greater consumption of total dairy products may be of importance in the prevention of weight gain in middle-aged and elderly women who are initially normal weight.”
 
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Junk drinks banned in hospital!

 

Nelson Marlborough District Health Board principal dental officer Dr Rob Beaglehole, left, and chief executive Chris ...

It can be done. It requires an engaged and proactive medical administration with the resolve to do the right thing for the community.

Hospitals should be setting the example for the people. Best example equals best practice. New Zealand is a head of us on this one…again.

I regularly hear from patients that sugar and carbs and cake and fruit juice and biscuits must be alright because the hospital ‘gives it to me’.

There is so much evidence that they are not good yet the hospitals that I work in don’t have the gumption to tackle the issue. That equals more ill health and more personal and community cost. That’s so frustrating.

“Diet soft drinks, juices, flavoured water and smoothies will be removed from the shelves and hospital menus at Nelson and Wairau Hospitals in a move that is believed to be the first of its kind in New Zealand.

The crackdown on sugary drinks will see patients and visitors to Wairau Hospital, in Blenheim, choose between milk, water, tea and coffee.

An existing Nelson Marlborough District Health Board policy preventing the sale of sugar-sweetened beverages was extended to cover artificially-sweetened beverages, flavoured water, smoothies and juices at a health board meeting in Nelson on Tuesday.

Those drinks would no longer be served to patients or sold from cafes, shops and vending machines at Wairau Hospital and Nelson Hospital from May 1.

Nelson Marlborough was the first health board in New Zealand to introduce limits on sugary drinks.

The updated policy means no pre-packaged drinks containing sugar will be available on health board sites.”

http://www.stuff.co.nz/…/groundbreaking-sugary-drinks-polic…

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Astroturfing by Coca Cola – sponsoring misleading science.

Revelations of Coca-Cola's funding could shock and embarrass, health advocates say.

Astroturfing is the practice of masking the sponsors of a message or organization to make it appear as though it originates from and is supported by grassroots participant. Wikipedia ref.

How much has the soft drink industry sponsored ‘research’ and public relations and misinformation? A lot is the simple answer. And it’s not just in the USA. It’s right here in our backyard.

http://www.theage.com.au/…/what-cocacola-isnt-telling-you-a…

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Paleo makes you fat!

Associate Professor Andrikopoulos with the mice. Picture: Paul Burston

Nonsense was my reply on the ABC news tonight.

Unfortunately, this sort of research gets into mainstream news and hammers something which is showing benefits for real people – not mice.

I have been able to reply to this University of Melbourne research on tonight’s ABC news report. We’ll see how much I have been edited in or out. At least the opportunity to respond was given.

The study looked at the effect of an extreme diet on 9 obese mice and then has the gumption to extrapolate that to say Paleo makes you fat. The word Paleo NEVER appears in the article.

They took 18 mice that are genetically predisposed to obesity and 9 of them were fed a chow mix that was 6% straight sugar, 13% protein and 81% fat. I repeat, 81% fat in a chow form. That is about as far away as you can get from eating real food which is naturally lower in refined sugar and carbohydrate.

Where are the green leafy vegetables, pasture fed meats and healthy fats from nuts, cheese and avocado?

The weight changes were not even documented in the paper. They only referred to percentage changes in ‘Gonadal Fat Pads’. The paper makes no mention of a 15% increase in body weight for these mice. The Melbourne University press release is a sham. Either that or I am reading the wrong article.

I am all for recommending a lower carbohydrate and higher healthy fat lifestyle and will continue to do so. I do not advocate an extreme diet that is anywhere near the percentages and composition thrown out by this study.

Low Carb and Healthy Fat living does work in diabetes management. Every person I know who adopts it has an improvement in their blood glucose control, a reduction in their medications, less hypoglycaemic events and most are losing weight.

This scaremongering by the press release from Melbourne University is just nonsense.

Here’s 12 good points of evidence to consider low carb as the first approach to treating type 2 diabetes and as the most effective adjunct to pharmacology in type 1.
1. Hyperglycemia is the most salient feature of diabetes. Dietary carbohydrate restriction has the greatest effect on decreasing blood glucose levels.
2. During the epidemics of obesity and type 2 diabetes, caloric increases have been due almost entirely to increased carbohydrate.
3. Benefits of dietary carbohydrate restriction do not require weight loss.
4. Although weight loss is not required for benefit, no dietary intervention is better than carbohydrate restriction for weight loss.
5. Adherence to low-carbohydrate diets in people with type 2 diabetes is at least as good as adherence to any other dietary interventions and is frequently significantly better.
6. Replacement of carbohydrate with protein is generally beneficial.
7. Dietary total and saturated fat do not correlate with risk of CVD.
8. Plasma saturated fatty acids are controlled by dietary carbohydrate more than by dietary lipids.
9. The best predictor of microvascular and, to a lesser extent, macro-vascular complications in patients with type 2 diabetes, is glycemic control (HbA1c).
10. Dietary carbohydrate restriction is the most effective method (other than starvation) of reducing serum triglycerides and increasing high-density lipoprotein (HDL).
11. Patients with type 2 diabetes on carbohydrate-restricted diets reduce and frequently eliminate medication. People with type 1 usually require lower insulin.
12. Intensive glucose lowering by dietary carbohydrate restriction has no side effects comparable to the effects of intensive pharmacologic treatment.

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http://www.nature.com/nutd/journal/…/n2/full/nutd20162a.html

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There is an economic problem with margarine

 


There is an economic problem with margarine. Sales are down, profits are down. Good news from where I stand but bad for the shareholders of Unilever.

Unilever is one of the worlds biggest ‘food product’ manufacturers – notice the careful wording. Their margarine industry is on the back foot with declining sales and butter taking over.

If the biggest manufacturer of margarine in the world is looking for an exit strategy, then you know there is a problem.

No need to wait for government and Heart Foundation guidelines to change. The buying power of the consumer looking for healthier options is making the difference.

“Unilever said it wasn’t “able to stem the sustained market contraction in developed countries” in the margarine business.”

” A big part of the problem for margarine is the revival of butter after decades of being held up as the culprit for clogged arteries and expanding waistlines.

Consumers have come to see it as more wholesome and natural than margarine. Last year, unit sales of butter and butter blends in the U.S. climbed 4.2% from a year earlier while sales of margarine plummeted 8.9%.”

Keep up the good work people.

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