Community Health Education

The doctors were stunned. “You can’t be improving! No matter how many medications we give you, no matter what you do, you will always have to come to the doctor! But now you’re feeling better, both of you, so we’ve reduced the amount of medication.” 

This is Nurzat’s story of transformation through healthy eating. Before participating in the nutrition seminar her sugar index was 16—a healthy range is between 3.9 and 5.6—but with proper nutrition it dropped to 8.2. 

Nurzat is a single mother, and she has 3 sons. Nurzat herself and her youngest, who is three, suffer from diabetes. “There is a lot of suffering! Doctors just give medication. They don’t give any other advice, and they don’t say anything about what to eat,” she explained. Nurzat always hurried to the doctor when their medical condition got bad. Sometimes twice a week they would go to the doctor, even at night by ambulance to get medications for their symptoms. 

Then Nurzat started attending the seminar on healthy eating. She studied and applied what she learned in her life, reading about how diseases can be treated and prevented and how eating healthy foods can alleviate diabetes. After she started following a healthy diet for diabetes, she noticed that both her and her child’s health improved. Now they visit the doctor less often than before and the doctors are puzzled, saying, “No matter how many medications you take, you will never be healthy and well. But we can see that you and your son are much improved.”  

“Thank you very much,” Nurzat said. “I had no idea that there was such a thing as treating diseases with healthy eating and now I understand that the foods we eat affect our lives. Thank you for teaching us this!”