Info for health professionals
How The Rebalance Foundation can help you and your patients
The Rebalance approach helps people achieve fantastic results in blood sugar balance, abdominal fat reduction, lowering cholesterol and blood pressure, and improving other health markers. We would be delighted to talk to you about how your patients might take access a programme with your support, helping you to help them better manage their condition and avoid future complications. It is also suitable for patients considered to be “borderline”, showing signs of insulin resistance, to prevent them developing diabetes.
The approach is borne of a previous healthy eating regime devised by Elaine Wilson to help patients lose weight without compromise to their body composition. It came to the attention of healthcare workers involved in diabetes care when their patients, having followed Elaine’s nutritional advice, not only lost weight but also lost abdominal fat and experienced huge improvements in blood sugar control. The Rebalance programmes were developed in response to attention and interest from the medical profession. For UK-based professional, you’ll be interested to know it is consistent with the 2005 NICE guidelines for structured education for diabetes patients and with the 2010 Diabetes UK curriculum guidelines.
Why body composition is important
Most weight-loss diets result in the loss of significant amounts of lean tissue rather than body fat. This phenomenon has been subject of research for some time. Danish studies quantified the extent of the issue, identifying that in typical, 'branded' weight-loss approaches, of the weight lost by men 41% was healthy lean tissue, and by women, 35% was lean tissue. Moreover, of weight regained by men only 24% was lean tissue, and by women a mere 15%. Thus, since 2002, it has been known that weight loss adversely affects body composition. Serial weight loss and weight regain are being linked with serious illness. The dangers of so-called yo-yo dieting are now widely recognised.
How this relates to your patients
Despite this dietary advice has failed to evolve. Harvard School of Public Health may have called for an end to the "low fat myth” in 2012, but mainstream healthy eating advice remains rooted in the low-fat approach and food products marketed as healthy options largely continue to follow this lead. It is no wonder then that diabetes patients are failing to get the results they desire both in terms of their blood sugar control, and weight loss, even if they follow dietetic advice.
How Rebalance helps
This unique dietary approach ensures better blood sugar balance and specifically targets abdominal and visceral fat. This ensures patients achieve better health as well as a more appropriate BMI! Our results show that immediate drugs costs can be significantly reduced, and further indicate that future complications typically associated with long term diabetes be avoided or at least reduced – benefitting patients in terms of better quality of life and the NHS in terms of costs and workload and money!
