Thursday, August 28, 2014

Glucerna Challenge Me

Did you know that Diabetes refers to a group of disease that affect how your body uses blood glucose, commonly called blood sugar. Glucose is vital to your health because it's an important source of energy fot the cells that make up your muscles and tissues. Diabetes is a worldwide public health concern. In 2013, the number of diabetic adults reached a total of more than 380 million.   Closer to home diabetes is a condition that affects a total of 2.6 million Malaysian adults  putting us as one of the countries with the highest rates in the world. Wow... Malaysians loved sugar too much already and times to put it a stop here as if not, by 2020, it is estimated that prevalence of diabetes among Malaysian adults (18 and above) will reach 21.6%. Approximately 1.9 million increase from the current number of affected people in the country.

This is not exactly “fresh” news to Malaysians but it is undeniable that diabetes has now become a social disease that is affecting lower age groups.  It is essential for people with diabetes to have a reliable plan that can help them manage their conditions and juggle the never-ending demands of both work and personal life. If it is left untreated, patients may face various complications such as heart disease, stroke, kidney failure, blindless, leg amputations, nerve damage, high blood pressure and skin complications. Such a deadly disease and my grandma passed away because of having diabetes that leads to high blood pressure and heart attack. She passed away peacefully during her afternoon nap. Few of my cousins also had diabetes as it inherit from generations to generations and some have to take insulin injection especially during pregnancy...   

AND NOW there is a way out there and Abbott Nutrition Malaysia recently launched the “Glucerna Challenge Me programme”, accessible via online portal and mobile application, that seeks to educate diabetics on the means to improve their quality of life by provision of useful nutrition and lifestyle pointers. Vitals such as blood glucose and cholesterol levels can also be tracked, and all these features are optimized by the programme to create a customized lifestyle plans in the best interests of Malaysian diabetics. Besides that, diabetics will also have access to healthy meal plans based on their respective caloric needs and personal preferences along with step-by-step instructional videos and exercise plans that can be executed on a daily basis. Additionally, the program provides tracking tools and progress reports so they can monitor their progress and share it with their respective doctors. Great idea to help out all the diabetes patients out there...
Maha and me challenge ourselves to accept the challenge
Eating right and exercising can have an impact on the health of people with diabetes. By providing information on exercise and health nutrition choices, Glucerna Challenge Me enables people with diabetes to create healthy habits that will help in managing blood sugar levels, wight management and reducing cholesterol levels. 
Nutritionist giving talks about diabetes
Glucerna provides a unique system of ingredients to help patients manage their blood glucose levels, weight and cholesterol. It can help reduce weight when used as part of an overall diabetes management plan.

People with diabetes can go to www.glucernachallengeme.com to participate in the Glucerna Challenge Me program. A mobile app is also available for iPhone or Android smart phones for on-the-go access to the program. For more information on the Glucerna Challenge Me, please contact them at 1800-88-6233 (Monday to Friday, 9am-6pm).
Chef Zuriati
At Culinary 19, Damansara Heights last Saturday, been invited by Glucerna in collaboration with Butterfly Malaysia, to raise awareness of Diabetes amongst all Malaysians. Nutritionist gave us lots of useful information on the disease and after that we were taught the way of making cupcakes using Glucerna. Chef Zuriati show us a healthy way as with Glucerna, we still can have a healthy diet by making delicious cupcakes. Comes with strawberries and kiwi, it can be yunmmylicious too...

We were also served with Glucerna drinks and they mix it with fresh strawberries for vanilla flavour and banana for chocolate flavour. I had few cups of it and it was really delicious. Yummy yummy yummy...
My creations. Looks creative, right ? Ha ha ha...
So, to all the diabetes patients, come and join the challenge and  see the results in 12 weeks times. It'll not only benefit you but benefit your future generations. Don't inherit such a deadly disease to them. Stay healthy, Eat healthy and Drink healthy...

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