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Who are the people behind The Low GI Café Company?

Paul Thompson founded The Low GI Café Company in 2006 together with his partner Janice Smith, the brains of the business. Paul is a type 2 diabetic and discovered the benefits of following a low GI diet together with a regular reGIme of exercise which has enabled him to control his blood sugar level without the need for drugs. This new healthy balanced lifestyle has had the beneficial side effect in helping him to lose 16 Kg and to enabled him to maintain it ever since. But a balanced, healthy diet and regular exercise isn't just for people with diabetes. Anyone who is interested in keeping in good shape or getting into a healthier active lifestyle can benefit.

Heathy Eating

In most cafés or restaurants to select a healthy option from the menu you have to make certain assumptions about the ingredients in the meals available and how they are cooked or processed in order to make a reasonable guess at choosing the option which would offer you the nutritional value you want. And how many times have you been in a Café or Restaurant and been offered a single choice for sugar-free drinks?

Well, we at The Low GI Café Company want to change all that. Our menu will offer the following guarantees:

A nutritional analysis of each meal for the average serving size.
Ingredients will be primarily Low GI in nature.
Ingredients for each meal will be listed, so you know what's in it.
Food that tastes good and is great for you because we recognise that a balanced diet also needs to take into account fat and protein.
A range of suitable beverages to choose from.

Make no mistake; this is not about some "fad" diet. It's about a healthy balanced diet and lifestyle. And that doesn't mean it's all about lentils, nut roasts and carrot sticks! While all three may have a place, a healthy balanced lifestyle is just that, meaning that making sensible choices at each meal time enables you to continue to enjoy the wide variety of food available. This makes following a Low GI regime easy because you don't have to eat stuff you don't really like and also explains why ingredients are primarily low GI not solely low GI. Apart from being impossible, it is important for a healthy diet that a wide variety of food is consumed.

So, it's not about a diet but a lifestyle change.

A healthy lifestyle is a balance but just as regular exercise doesn't mean you can fill yourself up with chips and beer, so a Low GI diet still needs you to tone up your body to create the environment where your muscles can increase the burn up of calories you consume.

Having learned myself that to take control back of my body I needed to "Choose My Attitude", we want to GIve you the opportunity to choose yours too and at the same time start to combat the twin epidemics of obesity and diabetes which are plaguing New Zealand and the world.

So Choose Your Attitude and come and give us a try. But before you can do that we need you help and input. Please go to the Help Us page, complete our survey and enter our competition. Your feedback is essential if we are to choose the optimum location for The Low GI Café.

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