“We know that up to 80% of type 2 diabetes and its complications are preventable or can be delayed by healthy diet and increased physical activity”

(Diabetes Australia – National Priorities for Turning Around the Diabetes Epidemic)

 

What should I eat?

Diabetes Australia recommend that your meals need to be:

• An appropriate size.
• Regular and spread evenly throughout the day.
• Lower in fat, particularly saturated fat.
• Based on high fibre carbohydrate foods.

Do I need to lose weight?

One of the first things you’ll need to look at is your diet and weight. Measuring your waistline is a great way of checking your weight. In general, if you’re of Caucasian origin, women should aim for a waist circumference of less than 80cms and men should aim for less than 94cms

How can I lose weight?

Maintaining a healthy diet and losing weight is easy to achieve with a formulated meal replacement product and fibre supplement.

Our products have a low glycemic index (GI).

Formula 1 Nutritional Shake Mix has a low GI making it an excellent choice for those looking to control their blood sugar levels.

Why can’t I just eat less and exercise to lose weight?

Yes, it’s important to try to eat a healthy diet and to exercise well. However, as everyone who has ever tried to lose weight doing this will tell you, just cutting back on food and doing more exercise rarely solves the problem. After that initial small weight loss the body seems to readjust and refuses to let more weight go.

Dr Joseph Proietto, head of the Weight Control Clinic at Austin Health in Melbourne says “The eat less/exercise more mantra has been around for 50 years and this period coincides with an explosion in the rates of obesity, the biggest increases in history”.

In a recent study from Melbourne’s Monash University, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in January 2008, it was found that the degree of weight lost, not the method, appeared to improve or eradicate diabetes, a finding with “important implications as it suggests intensive weight-loss therapy may be a more effective first step in the management of diabetes than simply lifestyle change“. 

Another study conducted by the Centre for the Study of Nutrition and Medicine revealed that individuals who followed a meal replacement plan for 10 years, weighed approx. 15kgs less than people who didn’t use a meal replacement plan.

 

 

Margaret Ferguson, Queensland, Australia.

“I used to be very overweight and had very bad health. I started on the products and it was just miraculous, the weight started coming off so easily. In the first three and a half months I lost four and a half stone, my energy level increased dramatically, I found I was able to cope with stress better, early signs of arthritis in my legs, knees and hands disappeared and a bowel problem that I had had since I was pregnant with my first child disappeared.

I have been an adult onset diabetic since I was pregnant with my first child who is now eight. The doctors have been trying to get my insulin down since that time without any effect. When I started on the products I was having four injections of insulin a day into my belly. In the first three months I was able to reduce that from four injections down to two and from 78 units of insulin a day down to 11 units. I have now lost another 6.5kgs and my insulin requirements are dropping further, and some days I only need 1 injection.”