Diet essential to ward off diabetes
substitute for meat,” explained Ashley Bates, the owner of JBay Mushroom Craft Food.
“And they taste good of course.”
JBay Mushroom supplies a wide variety of gourmet and exotic mushrooms and other products to complement your meal.
These include fresh and dry gourmet mushrooms, mushroom spices, plain chévre (French goat-milk cheese), black roll and mushroom chévre.
JBay Mushroom also supplies grow kits and liquid spore culture for those who wish to grow their own.
As part of the first life on Earth’s surface, mushrooms have had time to develop antibacterial properties, as well as a wide variety of textures and flavours.
However, not all mushrooms are edible and great care and expert advice is necessary before consuming any wild mushrooms.
JBay Mushroom Craft Food is the home of quality mushrooms and mushroom products and can also supply all you need to grow your own mushrooms at home including grow-bags to spores to harvested mushrooms.
See their advert for contact numbers and visit them at the Bathurst Farmers Market every
Sunday and see the delicious variety they have on sale.
Clare Wood of Clare Wood
Nutrition worked in the medical/surgical and health care industry for 23 years and is an internationally qualified surgical technician.
Later in her career, she crossed over and studied as a nutritional therapist.
Most recently, in 2020, she completed a university course on gut microbiology to add to her skill set to better help her clients.
“I’d like to share a bit of awareness on one area I am passionate about and is very relevant today - insulin resistance and diabetes type 2,”
Wood said. “In SA, the number of adults with known diabetes in 2019 was 4.5 million, more than double the estimated number in 2017.
“The number of people with diagnosed diabetes globally, rose from 108 million in 1980 to an estimated 463 million in 2019, and is predicted to rise further by 10.2%, to 578 million by 2030.
“That is staggering. “Sadly, those statistics are based on diagnosed cases.
“Many people are suffering with insulin resistance/ metabolic syndrome (prediabetic) and are unaware of it.
“It wreaks havoc on one’s health, until diagnosed.
“The good news is that through the correct dietary and lifestyle guidance, diabetes type 2 can be prevented, controlled and even reversed completely.”
Wood puts the blame on the Western lifestyle of consuming processed carbohydrate, high-sugar diets, stressful lifestyles and s lack of adequate exercise - the main contributing factors leading to type 2 diabetes.
“In turn, one of the main contributing factors to weight gain, particularly in perimenopausal and menopausal women, is the onset of insulin resistance as hormones begin to fluctuate and change.
“Men are not off the hook either.
“It is so important to take stock of our metabolic health and one of the best ways to start doing this is through changing and understanding what we put in our mouths and the effects that has on our bodies,” Wood said.
“On the whole, diabetes 2 is a totally preventable lifestyle disease.
“Eat right for you and avoid diabetes type 2.
“Remember, we are all uniquely individual beings and so, therefore, are our dietary and lifestyle needs,” Wood said.
Contact Clare Wood Nutrition via WhatsApp details (as per ad) should you wish to have a personalised consultation.