What?

7 Session X-PERT Health Low Carbohydrate Programme For Type 2 & Pre-Diabetes

Cost?

£30 in total (Payable at the first session, and includes a free blood glucose test meter)

When?

- Session 1, Thursday 26th January @ 6pm
- Session 2, Thursday 2nd February @ 6pm
- Session 3, Thursday 9th February @ 6pm
- Session 4, Thursday 16th February @ 6pm
- Session 5, Thursday 23rd February @ 6pm
- Session 6, Thursday 2nd March @ 6pm
- Session 7, Thursday 9th March @ 6pm

Where?

Grappenhall Ex-Servicemens Club, Chester Road, Grappenhall, Warrington, WA4 2QG

How?

Sign up by telephoning Keith Rathbone on 01925 824999.

Details?

Session 1 - Initial Information Meeting

- A meeting that explains what to expect from the course.
- Families are also welcome to attend this meeting.

Session 2 - What is pre-diabetes and diabetes?

- Explains the effects of how digestion of carbs effects BG control.
- Also includes 7 lifestyle factors for optimal heath.
- Health results- what they mean.
- Medications used in diabetes.
- Setting Goals.

Session 3 - Weight Management

- Eating for good health – food groups/portions
- Addressing the myths and misconceptions.
- Physical activity – when what and how?
- Options for weight loss.
- How to assess what I am eating.
- Setting goals: eating and activity.

Session 4 - Carbohydrate Awareness

- Carbohydrate and blood glucose levels
- Assessing the amount of carbohydrate
- Practice at estimating carb content.
- Daily intake of carbs
- Setting Goals: the right carbohydrate for me.

Session 5 - Understanding Food labels

- Nutrition information on food packaging
- Traffic light system
- Reference intakes
- Nutritional claims – what do they mean?
- Setting Goals: the foods I buy

Session 6 - Health Check

- Low and High BG levels
- How could diabetes effect my long term health?
- Prevention of complications
- Importance of regular check ups
- Work, driving insurance, travel and sick days
- Setting goals: to reduce risk

Session 7 - Leave the Best to Last

- Recapping with the X-PERT Game
- What resources are available to help me?
- Revisiting my health profile
- Have my needs been addressed?
- More confidence to self-manage my health?
- Setting goals: self-management in the future…

What?

7 Session X-PERT Health Low Carbohydrate Programme For Type 2 & Pre-Diabetes

Cost?

£35 in total (Payable at the first session, and includes a free blood glucose test meter)

When?

- Session 1, Monday 23rd January @ 6.30pm
- Session 2, Monday 30th January @ 6.30pm
- Session 3, Monday 6th February @ 6.30pm
- Session 4, Monday 13th February @ 6.30pm
- Session 5, Monday 20th February @ 6.30pm
- Session 6, Monday 27th February @ 6.30pm
- Session 7, Monday 6th March @ 6.30pm

Where?

The Rendezvous Hotel, Keighley Road, Skipton, North Yorkshire, BD23 2TA

How?

Sign up by emailing Verner Wheelock on verner.wheelock@vwa.co.uk

Details?

Session 1 - Initial Information Meeting

- A meeting that explains what to expect from the course.
- Families are also welcome to attend this meeting.

Session 2 - What is pre-diabetes and diabetes?

- Explains the effects of how digestion of carbs effects BG control.
- Also includes 7 lifestyle factors for optimal heath.
- Health results- what they mean.
- Medications used in diabetes.
- Setting Goals.

Session 3 - Weight Management

- Eating for good health – food groups/portions
- Addressing the myths and misconceptions.
- Physical activity – when what and how?
- Options for weight loss.
- How to assess what I am eating.
- Setting goals: eating and activity.

Session 4 - Carbohydrate Awareness

- Carbohydrate and blood glucose levels
- Assessing the amount of carbohydrate
- Practice at estimating carb content.
- Daily intake of carbs
- Setting Goals: the right carbohydrate for me.

Session 5 - Understanding Food labels

- Nutrition information on food packaging
- Traffic light system
- Reference intakes
- Nutritional claims – what do they mean?
- Setting Goals: the foods I buy

Session 6 - Health Check

- Low and High BG levels
- How could diabetes effect my long term health?
- Prevention of complications
- Importance of regular check ups
- Work, driving insurance, travel and sick days
- Setting goals: to reduce risk

Session 7 - Leave the Best to Last

- Recapping with the X-PERT Game
- What resources are available to help me?
- Revisiting my health profile
- Have my needs been addressed?
- More confidence to self-manage my health?
- Setting goals: self-management in the future…

Fighting Fit Families, Tuesday 22nd November @ 5.30-6.00pm, The Park Royal Hotel, Stretton Road, Warrington, WA4 4NS

Would you like to help yourself or the whole family become fitter and healthier?

Join Dr Joanne McCormack and Coach Paul Connor for their new behaviour change programme where the whole family are encouraged to attend, but parents are welcome without the kids if you like!

Places are limited, so please book your place as soon as possible by emailing Dr McCormack via joannemccormack@nhs.net or send a direct message on Twitter @Joanne Reynold14 and specify that you'd like to attend Fighting Fit Families.

Food As Medicine: 6th In The Series , Tuesday 22nd November @ 6.45-9.00pm, The Park Royal Hotel, Stretton Road, Warrington, WA4 4NS

6.45 - Food

7.15 - Dr Joanne McCormack
GP winner of RCGP Mersey faculty award 2016 talks about ‘Ideas to protect our children from nutritional harm’.

7.30 - Dr Trudi Deakin
Dietician and founder of the X-pert diabetes programme presents ‘Beyond fat phobia- healthy fats’.

7.45 - Dr Scott Murray
Consultant Cardiologist at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital and Broadgreen talks about ‘Diabesity and the heart of the future’.

8.00 - Dr Angharad Powell
A General Practitioner who will present ‘Low-carb, healthy fat eating to cure obesity & how to nourish your family the low-carb way'.

8.15 - Dr David Unwin & Dr Joanne McCormack
RCGP GP Innovator of the Year 2016 and GP winner of RCGP Mersey faculty award 2016 present 'Practical techniques for behavioural change in your 10-minute consultation'.

8.30 Dr Ian Lake
A General Practitioner who will present ‘Why and how I manage my type 1 diabetes with low carb/LCHF’

8.45 - Discussion

9.00 - END

Places are limited, so please book your place as soon as possible by emailing Dr McCormack via joannemccormack@nhs.net or send a direct message on Twitter @Joanne Reynold14 and specify that you'd like to attend Food As Medicine.

All speakers do these talks for free and we ask that you consider supporting the Public Health Collaboration with a small donation on attendance or via our donation page @ www.PHCuk.org/donate

Fighting Fit Families, Tuesday 25th October & Tuesday 22nd November @ 5.30-6.00pm, The Park Royal Hotel, Stretton Road, Warrington, WA4 4NS

Would you like to help yourself or the whole family become fitter and healthier?

Join Dr Joanne McCormack and Coach Paul Connor for their new behaviour change programme where the whole family are encouraged to attend, but parents are welcome without the kids if you like!

Places are limited, so please book your place as soon as possible by emailing Dr McCormack via joannemccormack@nhs.net or send a direct message on Twitter @Joanne Reynold14 and specify that you'd like to attend Fighting Fit Families.

Food As Medicine: 5th In The Series , Tuesday 25th October @ 7-9pm, The Park Royal Hotel, Stretton Road, Warrington, WA4 4NS

Food is served at 7.00pm, with the main talks starting at 7.30pm:
 
7.00pm - Dr J McCormack- GP
Can the food you eat affect your joint health? EBM suggests it can. An expert patient with psoriatic arthritis will tell you his story and I will show you the evidence and show how it saved my previous practice £9k in drug costs alone.

7.20pm - Expert Patient
An expert diabetic patient shows us the effects of different meals on his blood glucose with continuous blood glucose monitoring and how his blood glucose is mostly a flat line within the normal range. He even can tell you how the NICE guidance changed in December 2015 to low GI for T2DM and carb counting for T1DM and about how we can contribute to the EBM.

7.30pm - Dr David Unwin - Award Winning GPSI Diabetes, Founding Member of the PHC, @lowcarbGP

David says he has a lot more professional satisfaction now and we could all do with more of that! Using simple psychology to enable change with your diabetic and overweight patients using Low Carb, Healthy Fat ways of eating. David does this and saved £40,000+ on his latest diabetes drug bill, and his NHS practice have the best outcomes and the lowest spend in his area.
 
8.00pm - Dr Malcolm Kendrick - Author of the Great Cholesterol Con & Doctoring Data, www.drmalcolmkendrick.org

We are not promoting deep fried mars bars, doughnuts or pizza, but Dr Kendrick will show us the evidence that healthy fats in the diet do not adversely affect our risk of heart disease. We are inviting GPs, Diabetologists, Diabetes Specialist Nurses, personal trainers and Dietitians as well as the Commissioners of Diabetes services along to join the discussion.

8.20pm - Discussion

9.00pm - END

Places are limited, so please book your place as soon as possible by emailing Dr McCormack via joannemccormack@nhs.net or send a direct message on Twitter @Joanne Reynold14 and specify that you'd like to attend Food As Medicine.

All speakers do these talks for free and we ask that you consider supporting the Public Health Collaboration with a small donation on attendance or via our donation page @ www.PHCuk.org/donate