Transcript A Reason for Hope Lecture

Welcome!!!!!!
Food for
Life
Cooking and
Eating to Beat
Diabetes
Program Goals
1. Rediscover the foods of Native
Ancestors – who never had diabetes.
2. Explore the latest research on diet and
diabetes prevention and treatment.
3. Taste healthy and delicious dishes.
4. Put new skills and knowledge into
practice to prevent and heal diabetes.
Class Schedule (Provide Dates)
Meeting 2:
New Recipes with Commodities and The 3
Sisters
Meeting 3:
Grains, The Staff of Life
Meeting 4:
Grocery Store Tour (Location TBD)
Meeting 5:
Stocking Up: Canning/Freezing/ Drying/
Sprouting
Meeting 6:
Holidays and Feast Days, Healthy Families,
and Graduation
Use this Planner to create your own Week of Meal Ideas
from class lessons and resources.
Lesson 1: A Reason for Hope
for People With Diabetes
Why are we hopeful?
• Our study has shown
that diabetes can be
turned around.
• Diabetes does NOT
have to cause
problems.
• Food may be the
answer.
Look at how the number of people with diabetes has gone up:
Number and Percentage of U.S. Population
with Diagnosed Diabetes, 1958-2009
CDC’s Division of Diabetes Translation. National Diabetes Surveillance System
available at http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/statistics
Looking around our planet:
Who gets diabetes?
Diabetes is rare in Asia, Africa and South America
Diabetes becomes more common as diets are
Westernized.
Diabetes became common among Native Americans with
a shift in diet.
What if we compare two different ways
of eating for people with diabetes?
One group followed the usual diet.
• They were told how many carbohydrate
servings or exchanges to eat.
• If overweight, told eat less calories.
The other group
followed a diet
that we call the
“Power Plate”
way of eating.
In this study, what did people eat?
Typical Meals and Snacks
Breakfast Lunch Dinner
What didn’t people eat?
They ate no animal products.
They did not have milk or dairy
products, like cheese.
They avoided fats.
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No lard
No shortening
No butter
No fried foods
No or very little oil
Avoided certain carbohydrates
(starchy or sweet foods) that raise
blood sugar Enjoyed:
Avoided:
Cold cereals with sugar
or white flour
White and most wheat
breads
White rice
Sweets and breads made
with white flour
Sugar, honey
Pop and sugary drinks
Old-Fashioned oatmeal or mueseli
with non-dairy milk
Pasta, tortillas
Rye or 100% whole wheat breads
Whole grains: Oatmeal, brown
and white rice, wild rice, corn,
quinoa, barley
Most fruit
Most vegetables
Beans, peas and lentils
Agave nectar (as a sweetener)
Water, coffee tea
What happened?
• Diabetes got better.
– Blood sugars
improved.
– A1c improved.
– Blood cholesterol
improved.
– Kidney function got
better.
– If overweight, lost
weight.
People felt better, and they told us they
liked the new way of eating! Many were
able to take less medication.*
*Work with your health
care provider.
Vance
Lost 60 pounds
A1c fell from 9.5 to 5.3
Doctor asked him to stop
diabetes medications.
For people who were heavy, they lost weight.
Many people needed less
medication
Michael (Caroline’s
patient. Not a study
participant)
Did not have to start
insulin.
Was able to stop taking
medicine for high
blood pressure and
depression.
This study was done with people with
diabetes in Washington D.C.
Could the Power Plate way of eating work
for people with diabetes in other places?
Marshall Islands
2600 miles
west of Hawaii
In the Marshall Islands, diabetes
was not a problem in the past.
• 60 years ago, diabetes
was practically unheard
of in the Marshall
Islands.
• People were slim,
physically active and
they lived off the land.
Now, half of the 30,000 adults in
Majuro have diabetes.
A clinic was opened to teach a
new way of eating. Actually, it
was the old way of eating:
mostly vegetables, whole
grains, legumes and fruit.
“I suffered a stroke
because of my
diabetes and was in a
wheelchair. I could
not walk. Six months
after joining the
Diabetes Wellness
Program, I got rid of
my wheelchair and
am walking on my
own again.”
Fred
Tinar
• “When I joined this program I was very skeptical, but very
quickly I started to feel better. The cramps in my legs
disappeared and I no longer had get up during the night to go to
the bathroom. My sugars kept dropping and are now normal
without any medication. My last lab tests show that I am no
longer diabetic.”
The joy of regained good health
from healthful foods shows.
Could this work here?
What foods did Native American ancestors
eat that did not come from animals?
What foods are now common?
Are these two lists different? How?
A few words of caution for people who take
certain medications:
• Blood Sugar
• Blood Pressure
See the materials on diabetes medications
and blood sugar monitoring in your
booklets. Work with your health care
provider to make adjustments.
Blood Glucose Monitoring
• Pre-meal: 70 – 130 mg/dl
• 2-hours after meals: 100 – 180 mg/dl
• Higher targets in certain situations.
• Take action if outside these ranges for 2-3
days, or for any sudden changes.
Hypoglycemia (Low Blood Sugar) –
Know how to Recognize it and Treat it
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Weakness
Rapid heart rate
Dizziness
Shakiness
Nervousness
Sweating
Cold and clammy
Headaches
Irritable
Treatments:
• Juice or
• Hard candies or
• Regular pop or
***Follow with a meal
What shall we call this way of eating?
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Vegan
Strict or Dairy-Free Vegetarian
Plant-Based
Plant-Strong
Austin, TX,
Power Plate
firefighter Rip
Esselstyn coined the
term, “Plant-Strong.”
Just don’t call us late for dinner!
Meatless meals are NOT a new
idea – But it may seem that way!
What did people eat 50 years ago? 150 years?
1000 years ago? And how long has Type 2
Diabetes been around?
Our Food for Life invitation to you
• Taste new
recipes.
• Try out a new
way of eating.
• See how you
feel.
• We are here to
support you.
How to get started on the road to good health with
Power Plate Eating
• This week: try some new
recipes and have some
meals with no animal
products, no added fats,
and no sugar.
• Plan to attend Meetings
2-6
• After Meeting 2, give it a
100% try for 3 weeks.
• See how you feel, and
report progress in class.
The power of healthy foods gives
hope to people with diabetes….
and to future generations.
Let’s Cook!
For Next Week
Before the next class, write down everything
you ate in one (typical) day, and bring to
class. No one will see this but you! You
will use it to discover something important
about modern diets.
Try out a new recipe from class, and/or have
a few meals that are made from Power
Plate foods.
Power Plate Foods to Reverse Diabetes
(www.ThePowerPlate.org)
Avoid:
All animal products
Fats: all lard, shortening, butter,
and limit oils
Carbohydrates that raise
blood sugar:
Sugar, honey
Cold cereals made with sugar
or white flour
White and most wheat breads
Sweets and breads made with
white flour
Enjoy:
Unlimited vegetables, especially all
varieties of dark leafy greens
Unlimited fresh, frozen, dried or
unsweetened canned fruits
Unlimited beans, peas and lentils
Unlimited grains: Old-Fashioned
oatmeal, muesli cereal, bran
cereals, brown or white rice, wild
rice, barley, quinoa, millet,
amaranth, etc.
Unlimited pasta (egg-free)
Non-dairy milks (Soy, Almond, Rice)
Use agave nectar instead of sugar or
honey
Choose rye or 100% whole wheat
breads
Small amounts nuts and seeds
Use a swipe of oil or small amount of
oil spray to grease pans, and
sauté onions and peppers in water
or vegetable broth
What’s an Animal Product?
If it had a mother, or came from something
with a face, don’t eat it.
Thank you for coming!
See you next week!!
Contact for questions:
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www.ThePowerPlate.org