Workshop delivers healthy habits to combat Diabetes
Story by Tricia Duffield and Chris Rieger
Type 2 diabetes is a significant health issue, particularly in remote communities, but there’s plenty that can be done to help people manage the condition and improve their health.
One person who spent much of his career working in this space is Ray Kelly, a Gomeroi man, accredited exercise physiologist, and researcher, who was in Bourke last week for a special Diabetes workshop at the Bourke Aboriginal Corporation Health Service.
Ray has decades of experience in elite sports and fitness programs, but it was discovering the data showing the high rates of chronic disease among Aboriginal people that changed the trajectory of his career.
“I’d worked in high-level sports, preparing athletes for Olympics and World Championships and then got into studying chronic disease,” he said. “In 2006, I came across a study that showed that Aboriginal people could turn around Type 2 diabetes in seven weeks, and what blew me away was that I’d never heard of it.[…]
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