Losing weight means eating a new way...
More plants, more fibre, less processed food...
Looking after your microbiome...
No counting calories...
The Problem
Being above a healthy weight leads to inflammation which contributes to all the leading preventable chronic diseases: heart attack, stroke, type 2 diabetes, 13 different types of cancer, liver and kidney disease, dementia and musculoskeletal conditions.
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Two thirds* of Australian adults over 16 are “above a healthy weight” – the Government’s nice way of saying that two out of three of us are overweight or obese. (*2018 figures)
The number is even higher in the Mid West – in 2013, a whopping 74% were carrying too much fat. Three out of every four people living in the Mid West and Geraldton are putting their health at risk.
Worryingly, a quarter of all Australian children were overweight or obese. And we’re getting bigger: in 1989 44% of adults were overweight or obese, rising to 63% in 2011, to 64% in 2014 and heading upwards.
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Health problems related to excess body weight impact on the health care system, as well as individuals, families and the community. Illness from overweight and obesity costs WA hospitals $350million per YEAR! Australia-wide the cost is in the billions.
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And being fat means facing a lifetime of increased health care costs – up to 30% higher than those with more healthy body weight. It is estimated that this cost will have almost doubled by 2026 if increases in overweight and obesity continue. That’s a lot of money that could be spent somewhere else – and a lot of people who could be leading better, healthier and happier lives.
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The Solution
Our gut microbiome plays a huge role in how we manage our weight. The trillions of microbes that live in our intestine make important chemicals that help manage appetite.
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Plants help clear the blood of dangerous fats; they contribute important energy sources (our brain only wants to operate on plants!) and they help manage the interal health of the gut itself, stopping intruders (pathogens) getting in.
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Being overweight or obese is not about looks - it's about health. Fat around the tummy actually causes inflammation which contributes to heart disease, cancer, diabetes, Alzheimers and many more nasty diseases.
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If there's not enough fibre in the diet, our gut can't produce important chemical signallers that tell the brain to turn our appetities off and on.
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It used to be that we just though of fibre as "roughage" but those days are past now - DNA sequencing can now tell us just how important those fibre-munching bugs are to our health,
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Don’t take our word for it – go into the data and have a look for yourself. On every level, being overweight makes us sick, and what’s making us overweight is what we eat.
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Obesity and overweight are the leading causes of the inflammation that's at the root of the modern diseases that cause illness and death
Contact
Full of Life
Geraldton Western Australia
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0409 886 982