In memory of Wayne:
Thank you everyone for the feedback of these tributes to Wayne and also for the attention taken to helping your health and the health of your loved ones.
Today’s focus is nutrition – yep you knew it was on the cards, because as you all knew Wayne – he did love his food that’s for sure.
He was the ‘marshmallow king’ at annual Easter and Xmas camping trips along the Murray River – only so that he could eat just as many marshmallows as all the kids put together.
He wouldn’t have one hot cross bun – he’d have the packet and he’d always be doing laps of the pantry every house he lived in!
Mind you this began when he was a young boy – he’d hide the lolly wrappers under his bed or in his toybox, then he’d leave them in my room to ‘set me up’ to get in trouble!
However as always I stick up for my brother and in this case I will as well to help explain why he had an addiction to food, and become very unhealthy there at one point in his life, before he was diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer.
You see Wayne and I like many of you grew up in the ‘low fat’ era. Everyone was lead to believe that eating fat would make you fat, so my mum along with many other mums began to cook foods by grilling meat, steaming fish, removing butter and replacing with margarine, taking full cream fat out of the fridge and in our house we drank skim milk powder made up (OMG). We had everything labelled ‘low fat’ or ‘No fat’.
However this didn’t help us – we kept eating, we were on a weight watchers diet in our early teens, the ‘limit biscuit’ diet was another memory, we had ‘weight watcher’s ice-cream’ on a Saturday night if we were good during the week – in between a ‘low fat’ wafer biscuit.!!
You see Wayne was always still hungry because as a teenager he was growing – his hormones were developing, his muscles, joints etc and as a child/early teen the best nutrients we needed are good fats/Omega-3’s – but what happened in this era – yes they were removed!!!
But what manufacturers were doing, were removing the good fats that feed our brain, help our cells to grow, protect our nervous system, allow our joints to move freely and just keep us full for longer periods of time – they were replacing this with SUGAR! – Cheap and made you want to go back for more and more!
Sugar only really connects with our reward centre in our brain – the dopamine response, so the more you had, the more you want!
Sugar is in everything, and if you haven’t watched the documentary “That sugar film” you really need to – it really helps you to see exactly what amount of sugar is in EVERYTHING.
Sugar is like a sparkler going off in your body and those little singes you get from the sparklers are the same thing that happens to your myelin sheath that wraps our your nerves and tendons – they get scorched all the time creating damage along the nerves and tendons – creating pain and inflammation, but you only feel it as a sore foot – maybe tendonitis is what the prognosis is, headaches, shoulder pain, hip pain etc. But it’s really the cause from the sugar in your body and the sparklers going off all the time, and when an area is being damaged consistently the body cannot keep repairing – just like you being only able to rethread a shoelace that’s broken off – it’s going to run out of length eventually.
Well when your shoelace is at the end of its life you can get another one, however we can’t always get another body.
You see in our body the sugar overloads the pancreas, it cannot handle the amount of sugar coming in from all the packet foods, bread, milk, low fat cheeses, yogurts, cereals, pasta, pizza, soft drinks etc – so it sends it to the store room “your fat cells”, and when these fat cells get full – they create more store rooms, more fat cells.
This process will keep going and going, but even though you are now thinking ‘gee I better cut back’ all that happened there to Wayne was he went onto ‘low fat ice-cream’ (higher sugar value), his Pepsi MAXX, (that I’ve already posted about), he just ate more and more, because he was never satisfied from good fats, it may have been low in fat – but high in damage control!!!
He ate fried foods that contain the bad fats (trans fats) which contain loads of toxins – again which I have touched on, and toxins create more inflammation = more cortisol = more stress = more blood sugar spikes = more crashes in blood levels!
So what do you need to do when blood levels drop?? You need more energy, and that energy comes from sugar and refined foods (so your dopamine response tells you!!)
Do you see the pattern?
It’s so sad that all of this battle on the body wears it down, it starts to form many cracks in the nervous system, the endocrine system (hormones and metabolism) .
When these crash so does your health, from prediabetes, to diabetes, obesity, and yep what did Wayne overload the most – yes his pancreas – what was Wayne’s prognosis – Yes is was Pancreatic cancer!!!
Along with his diet, his huge amount of artificial sweeteners were foreign to his body’s natural ability! Wayne was certainly on a roller coaster with this blood sugar levels, he was driven by the dopamine most of his life.
The biggest thing that upset me was that sugar feeds cancer! This is the demon for that terrible disease. And to really get stuck into western medicine – they know this, yet what do they do – they feed this to patients that are on chemo (this too is poison). I wrote this blog about this a couple of years ago if you’d like to read more … https://kerriefatone.com.au/love-my-brother/
Your take home from this is to get to understand that the way we have been eating for the past 30 years has a lot to be answered for, we are sicker as a nation than ever before because we removed good fats and replaced them with high sugared, easy to grab, easy to eat foods, we reduced salt (which is what our body is made from), we drink more calories than we should, our ‘sports’ drinks are worse than half the soft drinks, there are more numbers and preservatives in some packet foods than there is ‘real food’.
*side note Sports drinks are what Wayne would reach for after a game of indoor cricket and think it was good – NO it’s full of crap! He would eat more food because of the artificial lights sending bad messages that he needed energy due to the light, plus his blood sugar levels were all over the place, so the first thing he’d grab is chocolate or lollies to replenish from the cricket game or training session (this is a common mistake by many people, not just Wayne).
Please take a step this week, by eating foods that are fresh, not out of a packet. Then try the water only fluid, throw out soft drinks especially diet drinks and ‘sports drinks’.
Then throw out any food that contains vegetable oils (trans fats) that are in spreadable butter, especially margarine (chemical nightmare), check your ‘nuttalex’ this is just as bad.
Find good sources of protein and have a serve of it in each meal. If you increase the good fats (avocados, nuts, coconut milk, olives etc) – this feeds you brain and you won’t feel so hungry. You will beat that demon tapping into your dopamine (SUGAR).
Wayne always loved his food, and after his whipple’s procedure which took 8 hours to remove most of his pancreas and stomach, he took a long time to recover from this and I think I can honestly say that this was the only time I ever heard him say he was full.
Wayne-O I love you and I know you are probably rolling your eyes at me sometimes – but this is such an important message to get out to everyone.
Please be mindful of your food choices – you have a family to live for and look after xoxoxo
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