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BlockBuilder

31 October 2014

I recently heard from a client who doesn’t live in Wellington and I hadn’t spoken to for several years.  She is a diabetic and has struggled to control it.  She finally decided to buy a BlockBuilder and this is her response: “Hello Carol, parcel arrived this morning…have had a good look at the Block Builder..,…and it seems to be completely idiot proof!!! I kick started myself Zoning 100% this Monday…yes, only on Day 3 as I write….blood sugars in normal range ALL day. Insulin doses lessened remarkably, losing 1kg a day so far, that can slow down, as I don’t
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Categories: Comments, Other, Products, and Testimonials.
Tags: balanced, BlockBuilder, blood sugar, diabetes, insulin, and Zone.

Carbohydrate Addiction

9 September 2013

The latest North & South (September 2013) has an excellent article about carbohydrates titled “Carbohydrate Addiction is Real – and it’s killing us”.  It states that “the number of obese people in the world is now greater than the number who are starving” which is something I wrote about in an earlier blog.  Along with the obesity is the huge increase in people suffering diabetes.  In China there are 90 million people with the disease and in India 908,000 people died from related causes in 2011. In New Zealand the statistics are just as frightening with the ever growing costs of
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Categories: Comments, Other, and Science.

Ricotta vs Cottage Cheese

26 July 2013

I was asked the question about the difference between ricotta cheese and cottage cheese.  Ricotta is more pleasant than cottage cheese but ricotta, although relatively low in fat (saturated) compared to hard cheese, it is a lot higher in fat than cottage cheese.  This is the big advantage of cottage cheese: convenient protein with relatively low fat.
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Categories: Client questions answered and Other.
Tags: cheese, fat, and protein.

Wellington’s Shaking!

23 July 2013

I feel a bit prophetic after writing my blog on Friday about having some emergency rations like Zone bars on hand just in case.  I hope that everybody came through the earthquakes okay. I live on the top floor of an apartment building on the Terrace in the middle of Wellington.  We had a smashing time up there with things flying off shelves and breaking.  The worst casualty, apart from my nerves, was an unopened bottle of port bought duty free a few days earlier.  I’ve lived in Wellington all my life and have been through lots of earthquakes but
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