Insulin resistance plays a role in various health issues such as Type 2 Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome and PCOS. Our food habits can be a contributing factor to developing insulin resistance and can often make the problem of insulin resistance worse over time if we do not take the necessary steps to reverse that vicious cycle. So, […]
You’re mid-way through your pregnancy and your doctor has scheduled a routine test for gestational diabetes. You’re feeling pretty confident as you drink that awful sugary sweet test drink. Why shouldn’t you be? Diabetes doesn’t run in your family, you’ve never been obese and you feel like you eat fairly healthy. You’re totally going to […]
Have you ever felt like you’re struggling to keep the weight off, despite only eating “healthy food”? With so much conflicting nutrition “advice” floating around social and mainstream media, as well as clever marketing and advertising, you could almost be forgiven for being duped into thinking you were doing your waistline a favour by eating […]
Wow carbohydrates have received a lot of bad press in the last few years!! From ketogenic diets to quitting sugar, the general consensus in the media is that carbohydrates are the devil. What’s more, this perspective has seeped into our own consciousness and changed the way we look at food. “I just feel like by […]
Over the last few years there have been many health promotions and add campaigns focusing on ‘Toxic Fat’. They are usually designed to have that shock factor – Zooming in on abdominal fat or showing internal fat on the heart and liver. Scary and sometimes a bit gross. The technical term for ‘toxic fat’ is […]
Ah… Type 2 Diabetes. It doesn’t ‘just happen’ overnight. It’s a sneaky disease, silently developing over months or even years before it’s diagnosed. According to Diabetes Australia, up to half a million Aussies may have Type 2 Diabetes and not even be aware of it. And to think it all begins with this one little […]
You may have been to the doctor recently and found out that your blood sugar levels are higher than they should be. Yikes! Or maybe someone you know has been diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes. Scary! I mean, that’s it, right? There’s no coming back from here. It’s just going to get progressively worse, no […]
What condition do you associate with these words? Sugar. Overweight. Thirst. Dizziness. Fatigue. Excessively urinating. Cakes. Sweets. What about these words? Protein. Slim. Thirsty. Dizzy. Fatigued. Excessively urinating. Low fat and low sugar diet. If you said diabetes you are right. There are a variety of symptoms that could indicate you have diabetes: Fatigue Dizziness […]
Whether you have Type 1 or Type 2 Diabetes, or if you don’t have diabetes at all, it’s important to consider several things when it comes to snacking: Carbohydrates and G.I. Understanding how much and what type of carbohydrate is in a snack will give you a good gauge of how you blood sugar levels […]
I really love Jamie Oliver! He’s fantastic at making nutrition messages relevant, especially when he uses wheelbarrows and buses full of sugar as an effective shock tactic. However, as I watched his T.E.D talk one night on my laptop, I noticed that, while he talks fervently about how diabetes and other health conditions are preventable […]
