How Do I Eat Healthy Foods for Diabetes on a Budget?
How Do I Eat Healthy on A Budget?
This week it’s budget week. As we look at who wins and who loses after the Government handed down the 2018 Budget, let’s see how you can eat healthy and make sure your budget in the kitchen isn’t blown out.
Thankfully, here’s some tips to do just that:
Read MoreDoes knowing nutrition stuff = changing nutrition stuff?
Does knowing about nutrition influence our food choices and specifically the adoption of healthy food behaviours and habits?
So what makes it hard to move from knowing stuff to doing stuff? What barriers get in the way?
Read MoreEaster, Easter Eggs and a bonus Easter Egg
During festive periods, time with friends and family includes meals together, and gifts of the food variety. Chocolate Easter Eggs and hot cross buns often feature on this list.
So how does someone with diabetes get through this period?
Read MoreSmart Eating is a lifestyle, that you should do for longer than Smart Eating Week
#SmartEatingWeek
Rather than a short term "Diet" - "Smart Eating" is a lifestyle, a behaviour that should be maintained, be lived daily, rather than done for a week.
It's better to do "Smart Eating" that you can maintain, rather than "Perfect Eating" which is restrictive, makes you hungry, and can't be followed.
Smart eating focuses on eating behaviours.
Read MoreDiabetes Blog Week. The Blame Game
With food intake its easy to blame one thing for affecting diabetes or weight. Like blaming carbohydrate in isolation. Or sugars. Or fructose. Or Glycemic Index. Or fats. Or saturated fat. Or alcohol.
Blaming one macronutrient, whilst ignoring total intake and energy contribution as a whole is shortsighted.
We need to look at the whole diet, and what makes it up as pieces of the puzzle.
Read MoreDiabetes Blog Week. The Cost of Diabetes
The Cost of Eating Well
It never surprises me that it costs more to purchase healthier, more nutritious foods than it does to purchase higher fat, sugar, and salt convenience foods.
At the cafe, a fruit salad or yoghurt costs more than a chocolate donut. This does no make
Read MoreDiabetes Blog Week 2017 Diabetes and the Unexpected
This week is Diabetes Blog Week.
Today's brief is: "Diabetes can sometimes seem to play by a rulebook that makes no sense, tossing out unexpected challenges at random. What are your best tips for being prepared when the unexpected happens?".
Read MoreSimply, Simplify.
We know that from an average health professional consultation most people can recall very little of what's been communicated.
Simplifying messages improves understanding and recall of information.
The way of presenting the message both verbally and with written materials can be simplified, simply by simplifying it.
How can messages be understood and recalled?
Simply, Simplify.
Read MoreAddition and Subtraction
When it come to improving dietary intake, Is it more important to add, or subtract?
Many clients think I'm going to tell them what not to eat. The things that need to be subtracted, or removed from the shopping list, or the plate.
I'm more focused on what clients should eat. This means adding foods, and ensuring enough good nutrition. So let me go into this first.