In July 2011, my husband and I were about to drive from Bucharest in Romania to my hometown of Chisinau. My husband had had some blood tests done a few days before, and, just as we were about to leave, we got an urgent message from the medical centre saying that his blood sugars were sky-high and he should go anywhere (especially the "Wild East"!) before he had received a proper diagnosis and treatment for what appeared to be type-II diabetes.
To cut a long story short, it was diabetes and my husband was put on a strict dietary regime. We found out that people with type-II diabetes need to closely match their intake of food (especially sugars and refined carbohydrates) with their use of the energy that the food makes available (a sort of biological "just-in-time" inventory system). People with type-II diabetes aren't as good at producing insulin and regulating the amount of sugar in the bloodstream. Too much sugar and blood starts to get sticky, clogging up smaller veins and arteries. The doctor gave him three simple rules to follow:
In practice, he now totally avoids sugar, has carbohydrates for breakfast and lunch only, and limits himself to vegetables and protein later in the day. Interestingly, it turns out that this is a dietary regime that works well not just for diabetics, but also for anyone looking to maintain a healthy weight. If you'd like to find out more, drop me a line. According to the NZ Health Survey 2016-2017, only 38% of New Zealanders are consuming the Ministry of Health's recommended intake of two servings of fruit and three of vegetables every day. What's more, things are getting worse - in 2011-2012 the figure was 44.5%. And among the poor, young, male and ethnic minorities, the proportion is even less than 38%.
What to do? The obvious solution is to eat more fruit and vegetables. For some reason, however, we just don't do it. Another option is to plug the gap with bio-available, plant-based supplements. Nutriway provides three types of multivitamins made from plants grown on its own organic farms:
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