Are you ready? with Leigh Elder

The Eat For Keeps team has spent the last two years developing a free, dynamic new concept called The Big NZ Challenge.

This has a multi-platformed, dedicated website, with a rewards programme, social media, ability to collect and collate large amounts of people's information and data, sponsor programme, forums, YouTube/Vimeo channels and shopping facilities.

Mass tinkering with nutrition basics, like our reluctance to eat fat and our carbohydrate excesses, have resulted in widespread diabetes and weight problems.

Much of this can be attributed to a lack of blood-sugar control, and a nationwide improvement in this area would result in a significant and positive result.

With a small operation EFK have proved this hundreds of times over, during the last decade.

Most people are quite nutritionally illiterate and confused by all the mixed messages they hear on a day-to-day basis.

The Big NZ Challenge could help to change this. A useful analogy is to compare what EFK offers people's health to what the NZ Road Code offers drivers.

The road code clearly spells out the rules of the road and how to interpret the different types of signage in a succinct and concise manner, and all information offered is relevant.

Similarly, the free EFK resources offered in the challenge will help people gain a clear focus and learn some basic food and life skills, without all the conflicting messages that have confused them in the past.

Although the website www.bignzchallenge.co.nz is still under construction, we would be delighted if you could help us test this new website and give us some feedback.

Check out our Facebook page – and make sure you ‘like' us – YouTube channel and Vimeo at the top right of our homepage.

To join, click on ‘Join' and choose participant option.Fill in your details and click on ‘Register'.

Log in, at the top right, using your username and password. Click on ‘Profile' and complete your details.

Click on‘Save'and go to ‘Start,' scroll through and download the 10 key steps in the challenge – many hundreds of people have lost weight permanently by following these 10 key steps. Print these off and get started.

Any feedback is appreciated – call 027 2941980 or email: leigh@eatforkeeps.com