Lusia cheats diabetes
Paula Tagivetaua
Success story ... Lusia Managreve and grandson Fereti Managreve Junior.
THERE is so much in the news about non-commuicable diseases now - NCDs.
And many men and women are suffering from the most common form of NCD - diabetes.
Some people do not know it is really a lifestyle disease brought upon ourselves by the way we live and what we eat.
So often we hear that an unfortunate patient had to have a leg amputated because of the dreaded disease.
Some patients with diabetes have given up hope because their condition has deteriorated with time.
Some have accepted their condition and live each day hoping for divine intervention in the form of a miracle.
This is the story about a woman - Lusia Managreve - and how she cheated diabetes.
The story was told by her husband who wants to relay it as a message to people affected by diabetes that there is hope and that the disease can be controlled without having to rely on pills.
Fereti Managreve said his wife cheated diabetes through a strict diet, specially designed exercise program, dedication and sacrifce and a lot of praying to God.
This is Fereti's story about his wife.
Two months ago, my wife Lusia who is 55 years old, was diagnosed as a confirmed diabetic by the doctor who recommended her to the dietitian at the Raiwaqa Health Centre for a special diet.
The doctor said if her sugar level did not come down within a week she would have to be put on medication.
The doctor found out that Lusia's blood pressure was 140/110, which was very high.
Her pulse was 100 beats per minutes, which was high.
Luisa is only five foot-five inches tall but she weighed 95 kilograms when she was diagnosed.
She was overweight.
Her sugar level was 17 which was high and she had a high cholesterol level.
After two months of following the strict diet and exercise program, Lusia's blood pressure dropped 135/85 and her pulse dropped to 75 beats per minute.
Her weight dropped to 85 kilograms - she had lost 10kg and her sugar level dropped to six and her cholesterol level became normal.
It was an incredibe story of a diabetic patient's recovery.
The Health Ministry was amazed at Lusia's recovery after the medical staff at Raiwaqa submitted their report last week on Friday, November 11.
This is Lusia's daily diet:
First thing in the morning, she drinks a large glass of water (boiled the previous evening) and then exercises for 20 minutes.
For breakfast, she has half a medium-sized pawpaw, banana, light black tea with no sugar, sometimes with Soya milk, two slices of wholemeal bread, one boiled egg, no salt.
At 10am she has a large bowl of vegetable salad ù lettuce, cucumber, tomato and celery, a bowl of fruit salad and a large glass of boiled water.
For lunch, she has a large bowl of vegetable salad, two slices of wholemeal bread, tuna and a glass of boiled water.
At 3pm Luisa has a bowl of fruit salad and for dinner she either has boiled fish or skinless chicken with bele, rourou, cabbage or baji with kumala, yam or vudi, a large bowl of vegetable salad and tea with Soya milk.
Lusia does not eat red meat, salt or sugar.
For dessert, she has a bowl of fruit salad.
Her exercise program starts with a massage to ensure that all her muscles are in order then she marches on the spot in the sitting room for five minutes
She does breathing exercise and exercises to loosen her muscles before she stretches.
She does stomach and leg extension exercise and repeats it 10 to 20 times then she does about 10 to 20 pushups on the floor and then stands and marches on the spot.
After that she loosens up and breathes in and out ù breathing exercise. She drinks a minimum of one and half (1.5) litres of water a day.
Fereti hopes his wife's daily diet and exercise program will help anyone who wants to be fit and fight off diabetes or any NCD or just to be physically fit.
Even though Fereti is a fitness fanatic and has been in the fitness training industry for about 40years, he says Lusia does not exercise.
"She thought that doing house work was enough execise for her but now she is addicted to her fitness training program," Fereti said.
Lusia uses only Flora margarine but on Sundays she puts her diet aside and joins the family in whatever they eat.
On Monday, it is back to her diet program.
Lusia would like to thank the medical staff at the Raiwaqa Health Centre, the doctors, nurses and her special friend the dietitian whose time, advice, patience and friendliness have all contributed to her victory over diabetes.
She thanks her children, Alex and his wife Allison in Manila, daughter Lena and her husband Allan and grandchildren in California, Rosie, Meli and Fereti Jr in Fiji and her personal trainer at home, whose love and support helped her achieve her goal.
Lusia is a living testimony that diabetes can be controlled.
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