Type 2 Diabetes Treatment Programme

To meet our full Health & Wellbeing Team, click here.

Our knowledgeable, caring team of Health and Wellbeing Co-ordinators are available daily from 07:30 to 17:30. They gently guide guests through the programme and to help make changes to the package where necessary to help meet personal goals. Chatting to the co-ordinator is relaxed and informal, with no limit on the number of visits per day.

The Wellbeing Co-ordinator is available for daily measurements of blood pressure, pulse, weight, blood-oxygen levels, blood sugar (when needed). The Wellbeing Co-ordinator will schedule appointments for guests with our various experts as requested or required.

Our medical doctors can assist in providing clear guidelines and working out a program to suit your individual needs. Each guest is thoroughly assessed, and medical investigations are as comprehensive as possible.

This will include going through existing reports and spending additional time finding the best solutions to the causes of diabetes and other lifestyle health issues, rather than treating diabetes as a separate issue. Read more about our Health and Wellbeing Practitioners here

With the benefit of our on-site laboratory, results of a variety of blood and urine tests are available very quickly. This allows the medical team to address underlying health problems speedily, or re-assure guests when all is in order.

Tests available at our laboratory is extensive, but should additional test be requried, we will discuss the option on an individual basis and these tests will then contracted to a commercial laboratory.

Our in-house Nutritionists have many years experience in providing guests with tailor-made, healthy eating plans and advise.

Consultations with the Nutritionists assist guests in understanding each individual’s unique nutritional needs. They assist in guiding guests towards better eating plans using their personal likes, dislikes and circumstances as the foundation to ensure long term success.

Hoogland’s practical food demonstration share our wonderful, tasty, healthy and simple recipes, which you will enjoy at home, sharing with family and friends.

Hoogland’s recipes are based on seasonal, fresh and readily available ingredients. Our cooking is sugar-free and low in salt but high in taste. Guests often request recipes on departure for day to day success and enjoyment at home.

During the treatment of diabetes, periods of fasting can be highly beneficial. This length of fast can last from daily intermittent fasting to a period of several days or in some cases several weeks. The various options will be discussed and tailor-made for each guests.

Intermittent fasting has been shown to quickly increase insulin-sensitivity, and longer fasts has shown to have longer lasting health benefits. Water-fasting is not compulsory and the Health & Wellbeing consultant discusses this option with each individual guest before a supervised fast commences.

Carrying some excess weight leads to posture problems, joint pain and reduced mobility. Guests are encouraged to work with a physiotherapist or biokeneticist to address these problems early in the programme and keep up exercises to maximise the benefits of all Hoogland has to offer.

Mindful Eating Training is a very effective long-term solution to maintaining a healthy nutritional lifestyle. Mindful eating involves paying full attention to the experience of eating and drinking, both inside and outside the body. We pay attention to the colours, smells, textures, flavours, temperatures, and even the sounds of our food. We pay attention to the experience of the body. Where in the body do we feel hunger? Where do we feel satisfaction? What does half-full feel like, or three quarters full?

Picking up some weight in a world where food is abundant and the lifestyle increasingly passive, is quite normal. Very large gains and losses can have underlying medical or more often, emotional causes. Emotional weaknesses such as poor self image makes the effort to maintain appropriate body weight very challenging.

Our therapists have extensive experience in this field, they are practical, down to earth and very realistic and are able to teach a number of tools effectively for long term success.

Life coaches aren’t counsellors or therapists; they are not qualified to diagnose or treat mental health matters. They also aren’t necessarily experts–in fact, they don’t claim to be. But they do aim to train clients to reach goals instead of dreaming about them, and those objectives can include weight loss. Life coaches can form an excellent part of the support structure for effective lifestyle changes

Hypnosis is an excellent proven tool in lifestyle medicine. With experienced hypnotherapists in a professional setting this treatment has many benefits with no real risk or side effects.

The cyclical therapeutic use of Exercise – Massage – Heat Treatment – Cold Therapy – Rest is an affective way of improving circulation, keeping activity levels up and getting rid of many of the fat-soluble toxins that are released as guests lose weight. Heat treatment has been shown to significantly improve insulin sensitivity, improved glucose tolerance and restore insulin-stimulated glucose transport. Guests have unlimited access to all hydro facilities from 07:00 to 19:00 daily, including saunas, steam rooms, steam cabinets, sitzbaths, jet pools, exercise pools, cold pools and jacuzzis.

For more about the hydro cycle, read here…

Therapeutic Massage Therapies have many important supportive properties, and guests are encouraged to work a few into their stay.
Benefits of massage include:

• Relaxation and Stress Reduction
• Improved Circulation
• Lowered Blood Pressure
• Improved Immunity

Labyrinths are ancient symbols for healing and a path to renewal. Guests walk it as part of a Weight Management Package for light activity and meditation.

Read more about our various labyrinths here