Archives for diabetes

Keeping Up With ProZone – August 2018

14 August 2018

Carol’s Corner Seeing this is ProZone’s 20 year anniversary, we are putting in some of our articles from past newsletters. As Rachel Hunter said in the infamous advertisement for hair products, “it won’t happen overnight, but it will happen”, the same can be said for weight loss. A lot of people are hung up on weight loss and weigh themselves religiously every morning, getting upset if they put on a few hundred grams and probably rewarding themselves by eating a bit more, as if they had lost a few hundred grams. We had a client who went from a size
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Categories: Announcements, Other, Products, and Recipes.
Tags: almond milk, anniversary, apricot, chicken, consultation, diabetes, gestational, meal, pregnancy, PureFit, recipe, red 8, special, tomato, update, and weight loss.

Food-Star Rating System a Shambles

31 July 2015

Dietary Guides are still not helpful Health authorities in NZ keep wringing their hands and admonishing us about our increasing obesity rates and the associated increase in the incidence of type 2 diabetes and other ills. I believe that these authorities themselves in their muddled confusion around the subject and the influence from self- interested corporates are actually contributors to the problem rather than helpful advisers. This was yet again borne out by an article about NZ’s foods star system in the 26 July 2015 Sunday Star Times. The system is intended to help shoppers make healthier choices about processed
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Categories: Comments.
Tags: diabetes, Food stars, glycaemic index, glycaemic load, junk food, potato chips, sugar, and Zone.

That Sugar Film

19 May 2015

Everyone is talking about “That Sugar Film” and the book by Damon Gameau in Australia. For 2 months Damon changed his healthy diet to eating the same number of calories but from “healthy” alternatives. He didn’t eat lollies and biscuits or drink fizzy drinks but he did eat low fat yogurt, drinks like Up & Go and other foods with lots of sugar in them in order to eat 40 teaspoons of sugar a day in his diet. Fortunately he was closely monitored by doctors, blood tests and other advisors (who mostly told him not to do it at all!). The results
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Categories: Comments.
Tags: blood sugar, diabetes, fat, fatty liver, heart disease, and sugar.

Obesity Epidemic

10 April 2015

There was an excellent article in the DomPost on Monday (April 6) outlining how obesity is now a bigger problem than hunger in the world. This is a terrifying scenario and has serious consequences for the global economy. According to the Global Burden of Disease Study published in the Lancet nearly 30 percent of the world’s population is overweight or obese. That is nearly two and a half times more than the number of people who are undernourished. It is estimated that if the current trend continues, that almost half of the world’s population will be overweight by 2030. The burden on the
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Categories: Other.
Tags: balanced, blood sugar, diabetes, good health, health, insulin, obesity, weight control, and Zone.

The Continuing Obesity Debate

3 November 2014

Wallace Chapman’s Sunday Morning programme of 2/11/14 also included an interview with Dr Peter Gluckman who is scientific adviser to the NZ Government generally but with particular emphasis on the growing obesity problem. Dr Gluckman who continually referred to himself as “fat” quoted the latest science on obesity but unfortunately did not come up with any useful practical information for the listeners except his support for banning fizzy drinks in schools. Dr Gluckman emphasized that we are genetically programmed for obesity starting with the dietary behaviour of our mothers and fathers prior to our conception and particularly while our mother
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Categories: Comments and Science.
Tags: blood sugar, carbohydrates, diabetes, gestational diabetes, obesity, and protein.

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.

Obesity in Children

14 August 2014

Every day there are more and more articles in the paper and in other media about the obesity epidemic and the concern about the growing obesity in children. Last weekend I heard an interview on National Radio with Professor Boyd Swinburn from the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences at Auckland University. He said that while other countries around the world, including the United States, were starting to reverse the obesity levels in children, New Zealand was not which is very concerning. Younger and younger children are developing Type 2 diabetes and even needing hip replacements because of their uncontrolled weight issues. According to an
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Categories: Comments.
Tags: children, diabetes, healthy food, obesity, weight control, and Zone.

Testimonial

25 July 2014

Dear Carol Thanks so much for your help, after being diagnosed with Gestational Diabetes at week 28 of my pregnancy I was told that I might need to be prescribed insulin to control my sugar levels for the last 12 weeks of my pregnancy and more than likely need inducing early under the care of the hospital doctors and not my lovely midwife that I trusted and built up a rapport with from the beginning. As I have always been healthy, slim and fit I do not fit the standard Gestational Diabetes mold this was a complete shock! Thanks to following your advice, I
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Categories: Comments and Testimonials.
Tags: diabetes, gestational diabetes, insulin, and pregnancy.

Gestational Diabetes

30 June 2014

I recently had a visit from a friend who was 33 weeks pregnant with her first baby. She was told that she had gestational diabetes and because of that she was going to need to be on medication, was probably going to have a large baby that would need to be delivered by caesarian section and that she was at a high risk for developing diabetes later in life. She was horrified that the diabetic clinic had not even asked her to keep a food diary. Fortunately she knew about my services and came to see me. Fortunately too she had
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Categories: Comments.
Tags: balanced, blood sugar, carbohydrates, diabetes, fat, gestational diabetes, pregnancy, and protein.

Sugar – the Real Problem

18 February 2014

The World is Waking Up to the Consequences of Sugar Addiction There have been several articles written over the summer about the obesity epidemic with it’s resulting damage to our health. It is particularly interesting to see that the experts are starting to recognize that the main cause of obesity, diabetes, heart disease and the other conditions caused by underlying inflammation is caused by the amount of sugar in our diet. One of my mantras is that “it isn’t fat that makes you fat, it’s sugar that makes you fat”. I didn’t make that up of course, Dr Sears wrote
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Categories: Comments and Science.
Tags: diabetes, diet, fat, heart disease, obesity, sugar, and Zone.

Why Do We Tend To Overeat?

18 July 2013

Contributed by Kevin Bateman The only processed breakfast cereal that I eat is small amounts of Kelloggs® All Bran that I add to my home-made muesli mix. There is a recipe in the ProZone book. All Bran has 45.4g carbohydrate per 100g, which is very moderate for a refined cereal, and it has 29.5g fibre per 100g. This high fibre content helps slow sugar absorption into the bloodstream. So we can use a little All Bran and still maintain healthy blood sugar levels. I am referring to All Bran Original, the squiggly stuff, as there are several other varieties of Kelloggs®
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Categories: Science.
Tags: blood sugar, carbohydrates, diabetes, fat, hormonal balance, obesity, protein, and Zone.

Diabetes

20 May 2013

Last weekend (12 May) there was an interesting Insight programme on Chris Laidlaw’s show on National Radio about diabetes. The terrifying truth is that the rate of increase in diabetes in this country is threatening to overwhelm our health system in the not too distant future. Barry Sears has made the same observation in America where he says that diabetes is going to ultimately bankrupt the country. Listening to the Insight programme there is so much positive work going on to try and educate people but there was an interview with a 52 year old woman who has Type 2
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Categories: Comments.
Tags: blood sugar, diabetes, health, insulin, nutrition, and Zone.

Sleep and health

26 February 2013

The 7 May 2010 Dominion Post reported on recent research published in the journal Sleep and carried out by the British University of Warwick in conjunction with the Frederico II University Medical School in Naples that involved analysing 16 studies involving a total of 1.3 million people. The study gave results that the researchers claim to be “unequivocal evidence” of a link between sleep deprivation and premature death. They noted that people who slept for less than six hours a day were 12% more likely to die before age 65 than those who slept the recommended six to eight hours
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Categories: Client questions answered and Science.
Tags: cancer, carbohydrates, diabetes, health, melatonin, and Sleep.