Whanganui Chronicle
  • Whanganui Chronicle home
  • Latest news
  • Sport
  • Business
  • Opinion
  • Lifestyle
  • Property
  • Death notices
  • Classifieds

Subscriptions

  • Herald Premium
  • Viva Premium
  • The Listener
  • BusinessDesk

Sections

  • Latest news
  • On The Up
  • Sport
  • Business
  • Opinion
  • Lifestyle
  • Property
    • All Property
    • Residential property listings
  • Rural
    • All Rural
    • Dairy farming
    • Sheep & beef farming
    • Horticulture
    • Animal health
    • Rural business
    • Rural life
    • Rural technology

Locations

  • Taranaki
  • National Park
  • Whakapapa
  • Ohakune
  • Raetihi
  • Taihape
  • Marton
  • Feilding
  • Palmerston North

Media

  • Video
  • Photo galleries
  • Today's Paper - E-Editions
  • Photo sales
  • Classifieds

Weather

  • New Plymouth
  • Whanganui
  • Palmertson North
  • Levin

NZME Network

  • Advertise with NZME
  • OneRoof
  • Driven Car Guide
  • BusinessDesk
  • Newstalk ZB
  • What the Actual
  • Sunlive
  • ZM
  • The Hits
  • Coast
  • Radio Hauraki
  • The Alternative Commentary Collective
  • Gold
  • Flava
  • iHeart Radio
  • Hokonui
  • Radio Wanaka
  • iHeartCountry New Zealand
  • Restaurant Hub
  • NZME Events

SubscribeSign In
Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.
Home / Whanganui Chronicle

Expo puts healthy eating in focus

By Liz Wylie
Whanganui Chronicle·
16 Nov, 2015 08:00 PM2 mins to read

Subscribe to listen

Access to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.
Already a subscriber?  Sign in here

Listening to articles is free for open-access content—explore other articles or learn more about text-to-speech.
‌
Save

    Share this article

SMART CHOICES: Regional Health Authority community educators Pushpa Wati (left) and Sandy Taylor demonstrate healthy versus unhealthy choices at the Diabetes Expo. PHOTO/ STUART MUNRO

SMART CHOICES: Regional Health Authority community educators Pushpa Wati (left) and Sandy Taylor demonstrate healthy versus unhealthy choices at the Diabetes Expo. PHOTO/ STUART MUNRO

Diabetes Wanganui hosted an Expo at the Wanganui war Memorial Centre yesterday with 20 stalls focusing on the prevention or treatment of diabetes and related conditions.

President Helen Ashton said the Expo is part of Diabetes Action Month and Diabetes Wanganui is hoping to bring the rising numbers of people diagnosed with diabetes to people's attention.

"In the past 10 years, the number of people diagnosed with diabetes in New Zealand has more than doubled to 257,000," she said.

The majority of those people have Type 2 diabetes which is often preventable or treatable with a healthy diet and exercise routine. Around 10 per cent of that number have Type 1 diabetes which is not preventable but is treatable with a combination of medication, healthy food choices and exercise.

The stalls at the Expo included health advice from Diabetes Wanganui and the Regional Health Authority showing displays of foods with high ratios of fat and sugar and what the healthy options are.

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.
Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

Conditions related to diabetes often affect circulation, vision and mobility so there were experts as well as business specialists on hand to give advice.

An armchair exercise session with Carla Langmead was well-received, as well as a cooking demonstration from diabetes dietician Kristen White.

Ms White also gave a talk on healthy eating with tips on how to correctly read food labels.

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

The next event for Diabetes Action Month will be a national roadshow promoting physical activity happening at Majestic Square on November 26.

Save

    Share this article

Latest from Whanganui Chronicle

Premium
Whanganui Chronicle

Opinion: Why hospital staff deserve our gratitude

09 May 06:00 PM
Whanganui Chronicle

‘City man through and through‘: Club legend remembered

09 May 05:00 PM
Premium
Lifestyle

Opinion: Your guide to planting a productive winter garden

09 May 05:00 PM

One tiny baby’s fight to survive

sponsored
Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

Latest from Whanganui Chronicle

Premium
Opinion: Why hospital staff deserve our gratitude

Opinion: Why hospital staff deserve our gratitude

09 May 06:00 PM

Comment: Life gets put in perspective when you spend time in hospital.

‘City man through and through‘: Club legend remembered

‘City man through and through‘: Club legend remembered

09 May 05:00 PM
Premium
Opinion: Your guide to planting a productive winter garden

Opinion: Your guide to planting a productive winter garden

09 May 05:00 PM
'We haven't got anything': Club Metro sold but debts remain

'We haven't got anything': Club Metro sold but debts remain

09 May 05:00 PM
Connected workers are safer workers 
sponsored

Connected workers are safer workers 

NZ Herald
  • About NZ Herald
  • Meet the journalists
  • Newsletters
  • Classifieds
  • Help & support
  • Contact us
  • House rules
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of use
  • Competition terms & conditions
  • Our use of AI
Subscriber Services
  • Whanganui Chronicle e-edition
  • Manage your print subscription
  • Manage your digital subscription
  • Subscribe to Herald Premium
  • Subscribe to the Whanganui Chronicle
  • Gift a subscription
  • Subscriber FAQs
  • Subscription terms & conditions
  • Promotions and subscriber benefits
NZME Network
  • Whanganui Chronicle
  • The New Zealand Herald
  • The Northland Age
  • The Northern Advocate
  • Waikato Herald
  • Bay of Plenty Times
  • Rotorua Daily Post
  • Hawke's Bay Today
  • Viva
  • NZ Listener
  • What the Actual
  • Newstalk ZB
  • BusinessDesk
  • OneRoof
  • Driven CarGuide
  • iHeart Radio
  • Restaurant Hub
NZME
  • NZME Events
  • About NZME
  • NZME careers
  • Advertise with NZME
  • Digital self-service advertising
  • Book your classified ad
  • Photo sales
  • © Copyright 2025 NZME Publishing Limited
TOP