e'Pap Zimbabwe's Wish for You

Help with King George VI School in Zimbabwe

King George VI Centre for children with disabilities in Zimbabwe is a gem in the education of children who have to overcome massive challenges.

Have a look at their you tube video about their 2013 year end! These children eat e'Pap every day and understand the need for a diet replete with micronutrients. Please like their facebook page and have a look at their new website here.

If you would like to support this amazing school please do so here.

Please also have a read of their December newsletter. It is very interesting!

E'Pap Zimbabwe have been working very closely with the school and have seen some amazing changes in the students. Let's all pull together and give King George VI the support they need!

Diabetes and e’Pap

As you know, diabetes is a huge problem in Africa and in Zimbabwe there are unconfirmed figures. One article claims half of the population is suffering from the disease. Click here for the article.  

 

For poor people it is near impossible to get access to good food that does not contain vast quantities of refined sugar. The cause of the diabetes problem is driven by a compromised food chain - refined processed foods remove cereal fat, micro nutrients and fibre.  Commercially grown food is often grown miles from markets and picked green which contributes to reduced nutrient content.  Hence the food most people eat is highly refined and severely lacking in the micronutrients needed to ensure the body works at full capacity.

e'Pap has a glycemic Index of 70. There are many diabetics across Africa who eat e'Pap to get nutrients to their body. 

Our explanation as to the importance of good bio available nutrition in better managing diabetes is as follows.

e'Pap contains 28 nutrients all chosen to maximize absorption to the body which helps bring the body back to a nutrient replete state. In a nutrient replete state, the body’s metabolic processes will work better and will be better able to digest and process food.

Symptoms of type 2 diabetes

Chromium is very important for the management of diabetes because it gives legs to the insulin manufactured by the body (makes it more effective).  Chromium helps reduce the food sweetness craving which is caused by Chromium deficiency.  Interesting - raw sugar and raw wheat can be rich in chromium but gets refined out in the food processing.  e'Pap contains added chelated chromium (chromium bonded to an amino acid to mimic a food form) to help address this deficiency issue.

Zinc is also very important.  Natural insulin is manufactured by the pancreas and is stored by the body with a molecule of zinc. One zinc molecule can store three molecules of insulin. If there is no absorbed zinc - the body cannot store insulin produced by the body, so there are no reserves of insulin to be used when a sugar surge happens as a result of eating refined sterile carbohydrates.  The inability to store excess body produced insulin manufactured by the pancreas can put enormous extra strain on the pancreas. Without insulin storage capability, the pancreas has to react instantly when a sugar surge happens.  With no stored reserves to "buffer the sugar crisis surge" the pancreas will be overworked with continuous stopping and starting.  The hypothesis is simply that with stored reserves of insulin - the body can better manage sugar surges.

There are over 200 enzymic processes that will start to go wrong when the body does not get its daily requirement of zinc in an absorbable form. The amino acids form a complex with the trace elements. One of the most important of these enzymic  processes is in the digestion process that helps break open food to release the nutrients for the body to absorb.

Diabetes, obesity and anemia become an even greater issue for anyone who has a compromised immune system, because the drugs taken by that person interfere and affect the natural nutritional metabolism.  

That is why it is so important to get the 28 bio available micronutrients contained in e’Pap.

An excellent article to learn more about Type 2 diabetes is here...

So, to help fight against diabetes in Zimbabwe or to manage diabetes in Bulawayo follow us on FaceBook here for more information.

Commemorating World Aids day.

e'Pap Zimbabwe was proud to commemorate World Aids Day on the 2nd of December with Hwange Safari Lodge, a part of Africa Suns Hotel Group in Zimbabwe.

Hwange Safari Lodge

Announcement of Honorary Graduands 2014

It's official!!!

Along with Dr Bernard Lewis Fanaroff, Mr Malcolm Christian, Mr Andrew Kirkwood Muir and Mr Pieter-Dirk Uys. Basil Kransdorff has received an Honorary degree for his unique and outstanding contributions that have had a profound impact on society locally and at a global level.

World Aids Day 2013

1st December 2013... This is the day the World unites against Aids and HIV.

Today is World Aids Day.

Helping to fight Aids in Zimbabwe has become very high on many peoples agenda. Not just for the families of today, but for the families of the future, for children lacking in the knowledge of HIV and Aids and for people who are yet to be born.

e'Pap has many of the nutrients needed to help HIV and Aids victims to combat the sickness. Something everyone on this planet hopes for... Respite from a World leading killer...

Today we ask for your thoughts and prayers to those suffering from Aids or HIV in Zimbabwe and of course the world... Not just the people with the disease, but their families and friends. All of whom would wish for nothing more than a healthy life for their loved ones.

Today is World Aids day...

e'Pap doesn't work??

We are yet to hear this question! And being given this letter below about e'Pap and what it has done for one Hospice in South Africa, we hope we will never hear this question being raised!!

Typed letter :

 The Manager
Waymark Info Tech

We extend appreciation to Management of Waymark Info Tech for supplying us with a nutritional instant porridge like e'Pap of flavours of choice. We have seen e'Pap to be cost effective around health and poverty alleviation of hunger in community who are living stringently without an income and stricken by H.I.V disease, Cancer and Pulmonary Tuberculosis.

On my observations four weeks of direct observation of treatment of those patients who are bedridden they have been a remarkable improvement in their condition from day to day support and general care.

Many patients that we thought we are caring for them palliatively for end of life they have risen to assume their duties again, those unemployed are well nourished. We are having a total number of 200 patients supplied and 43 are infected children, of who are well nourished school going and pre-scholars.
We had patients who wheel barrowed by the family members to reach us, today they are activists of H.I.V assisting us to educate our nation to take treatment and feed on e'Pap.

Wishing e'Pap Technologist a success in this endeavour. May the Waymark Personnel knows that we acknowledge what they are giving to the world.

Yours Faithfully
Merriam Boitumelo Mabiletsa
(sister in charge)

E - We salute you for the Effectiveness on health
P - Promotable success on health
A - Affirmation of purpose in health
P - Purpose of being born for eradicating hunger, malnourishment and emotional stress and made us attain physical strength to live a normal healthy life.

Actual letter :

This letter is certainly testament to e'Pap, its' developers and of course, the effectiveness. If you are interested in supporting the Sungardens Hospice in South Africa or any Zimbabwe based  projects please don't hesitate in contacting us through Facebook. Together we can help to beat malnutrition in Zimbabwe and stop hidden hunger in Bulawayo.

If anyone has questions for the Hospice itself in regards to the effectiveness of e'Pap please feel free to contact them directly. The contact information is stated on the bottom of the pictured letter above.

e'Pap and Weight Gain

We have had a fantastic question asked by someone who is very interested in starting to use e'Pap... We have felt the need to answer this question here for everyone to see.

It was answered by e'Pap's creator Basil Kransdorff.

Question:
I want to use e'Pap but also lose weight, is it a given that e'Pap will let one gain weight?

Answer from Basil:
There is always confusion over this issue because the e'Pap pictures show enormous weight gain quickly of highly malnourished people.

The most important issues:
You cannot put on weight from such a small quantity of nutrition. You cannot put on weight from good nutrition.
There are two types of weight gain - the one is unhealthy weight gain that comes from storing unutilised sugars which come from refined sugar and broken down carbohydrates and the other is what we call healthy weight gain, which is lean body mass and this is linked to strength.
What good nutrition will do will be that it will improve your appetite and give you better energy and help get many metabolic processes working better. The improved metabolic process will help burn and utilize the excess sugar and also help all processes work better. The issue of how it will help lose weight will depend on what you do with the two new assets you get from improved nutrition - improved appetite and energy.

There is a famous saying - there is no gain without pain!! Sadly this famous saying will apply.

So with the improved energy you need to start some focused exercise which will help burn off the excess stored sugars. What you do with your improved appetite will be critical. If you eat lots of bread and carbs without lots of exercise - the results will be disastrous. Eat fruit and vegetables (as much uncooked as possible) combined with exercise - you can then lose the excess weight you would like to get rid of.

I had a lady who was preparing to be a bridesmaid at her sisters wedding. She shed 10 kilograms in about 6 weeks eating e'Pap and doing extreme dancing every evening!

So, for a healthy porridge to eat in Bulawayo or a nutritious milkshake in Harare who not give e'Pap a go?

Don't forget to 'like' our facebook page to keep up to date on everything e'Pap.

Food for Thought...

Have a read of an article that is to be printed this week for the SABCOHA Wellness Magazine. Basil Kransdorff, the inventor of e'Pap had a few very interesting things to say about malnutrition and hidden hunger.




To help stop malnutrition in Zimbabwe or to fight micronutrient deficiencies in Bulawayo why not contact an e'Pap distributor now and see first hand what this wonder food can do for you!!

Ethandweni Children's Home love e'Pap!

Ethandweni is a community based orphanage in Matopos, Zimbabwe, caring for 46 orphaned children.  They have been using e'Pap for many years but cannot always afford to buy it.  A donor in South Africa paid for a bale of e'Pap for them recently and this is what they had to say....

Shelley Lasker and Basil Kransdorff, thank you so much for organising the donation of e'Pap for Ethandweni Children's Home.  This product has helped our children tremendously with their nutritional needs.  Thank you!

e'Pap is a very affordable nutritious porridge fortified with 28 micro nutrients.  For more information about this healthy nutritional supplement for sale in Bulawayo or for bulk orders of e'Pap in Harare please visit our facebook page here.

e'Pap Developer Nominated for Incredible Award

Massive congratulations to Basil Kransdorff for being shortlisted as a semi-finalist for the "Schwab Social Entrepreneur of the Year".  This is amazing affirmation for a remarkable human being from little old Zvishavane, and true testimony to his commitment to a nutrient replete planet!  The e'Pap revolution can change the face of Zimbabwe, taking our population forward to proactive and dynamic players in defeating poverty.  I am so proud to be part of this all.

Click here for more information about the work Schwab does, but in short " The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship provides unparalleled platforms at the regional and global level to highlight and advance leading models of sustainable social innovation. It identifies a select community of social entrepreneurs and engages it in shaping global, regional and industry agendas that improve the state of the world in close collaboration with the other stakeholders of the World Economic Forum."

e'Pap provides great nutritional support for the elderly

e'Pap Helped Bring Khulu Back to Us!

Khulu Nyoni Siphulingi Phiri has been a part of our family life for over 40 years.  He has also been an integral part part of my children’s lives from birth, chastising them when they were naughty, sharing his sadza when they were hungry, always encouraging them, ready to catch them on their first wobbly bide rides.  He has helped us to mark our milestones, celebrated our joys and eased the burden of our sorrows.   

Nyoni is a man who has the most remarkable integrity, he is simple, both proud and humble, and his warm sense of humour belies the hardship he has endured throughout his life.  In 1949, when he was 14, Nyoni and his father left Mozambique to find work in the mines in South Africa.  They walked 2000km from Tete province to Durban.  Two years later they were back on the road, walking another 1000km to find a job in Zimbabwe (still Rhodesia then), the country was welcoming migrant labour and they believed they would find their fortunes there.

Tall, dignified, with not an ounce of fat on him, Nyoni is a legend for his strength and would not think twice to lug boulders around the garden.  He first worked for family friends and came to work for us in 1984.  He is the one who turned our garden into a paradise, a landscape that will always bear testimony to his hard work and love of the land.

Nyoni is now 78 years old and two years ago he decided it was time to retire, not because he wanted to, but we did not realise then that prostate cancer was starting to take its toll.  He left our home to live in Bulawayo’s western area, leaving a great big hole in our lives.  The cancer got worse, and a year ago Lucy and I carried him from his house to the car to take him to Mpilo hospital.  He was wasted away, in pain and unable to walk.  My heart was broken.  He was operated on and although the cancer is still there, it has been arrested. 

Nyoni’s recovery is nothing short of miraculous.  A year ago I was preparing to say goodbye to him, but he has sprung back with remarkable tenacity.  The surgery was successful, and to help him get back to health he eats e’Pap every day.  Last year I would make a monthly visit to give him his pension and his e’Pap, but a few months ago he arrived at the gate, bent over a walking stick, but he had come on his own steam.  He insisted that from then on, he would come to us once a month.  This morning Nyoni arrived, still with a cane, but standing upright, his skin glowing, a spring in his step and the sparkle back in his eye. 

Yes, the surgery played its role, and so has the medicine he has been taking.  But I am now more convinced than ever that the e’Pap effect is amazing, and the proof is right here in Nyoni, our Khulu, our grandfather.

ONE IN THREE PEOPLE IN THE WORLD SUFFER FROM HIDDEN HUNGER!

I am no scientist, I am not a doctor and I am not a nutritionist, but my involvement in e’Pap has taught me huge lessons about the type of nutrition we all need and very few of us actually have.  What I have learnt just makes sense and the solutions offered by eating e’Pap are actually making a massive difference in my life.  I have more energy, I am not getting colds and flus like I used to and I just feel better, so I thought I should share my layman’s understanding of the problems that e’Pap can help to solve.

You may believe that you are eating a healthy, well balanced diet with all the required quantities of macronutrients, in other words protein, fat and carbohydrates amounting to the advised daily calories needed.  But what most people do not understand or realise is that we are not getting enough of the essential micronutrients critical to maintaining optimal health.  Micronutrients are different from macronutrients because they are necessary only in very tiny amounts.  Micronutrient deficiency is now a major topic in global health discussions and has come to be called hidden hunger.

What is Hidden Hunger?

Hidden hunger is not the kind of hunger that comes from a lack of food. It is a prolonged and chronic lack of the vitamins and minerals we all need to ensure optimal health.  The long term consequences that come from the lack of these micronutrients often lie hidden, with no visible or obvious signs.  The people who suffer hidden hunger are usually not even aware of it. But the consequences are nevertheless disastrous: at worst hidden hunger can lead to mental impairment, poor health and productivity, or even death, but the most widespread conditions are fatigue, decreased productivity and a weakened immune system.   

In fact you put on weight if you have hidden hunger because of the way the body works.  When you are lacking a micronutrient, the brain sends out a signal of hunger or a craving to force you to eat. If you eat sterile food that has no micronutrients the body then continues to tell you that you are hungry and so you continue to eat and eat and eat, creating another challenge - OBESITY. 

How does e’Pap help to combat Hidden Hunger?

e’Pap is a pre-cooked, wholegrain food, based on maize and fortified with soya and a cocktail of 28 nutrients. It includes the full recommended daily allowance of the most important ones micronutrients - iron, zinc, vitamins A, B and C.  Not only is e’Pap full of nutrients, but it has also been formulated to improve the ability of the body to digest and break down food, ensuring that you get the full benefit of your diet.  

e’Pap is affordable and one portion costs the equivalent of a quarter of a loaf of bread.  Try it for yourself and benefit from the e’Pap effect.

YOU CANNOT PUT ON WEIGHT FROM GOOD NUTRITION.

A lot of people are asking if e’Pap makes you fat.

NO, it does not.  In fact an adult size portion of e’Pap is equivalent to 177 calories, compare this to a bowl of home cooked oats, a teaspoon of honey and half a cup of milk which comes in at a conservative 238 calories.  e’Pap is a nutritional product with a huge amount of high tech chemistry behind it to deliver the micro nutrients you need.  

You cannot gain weight from eating 50 grams of e’Pap a day, it is simply not possible!!!  Good nutrition will give you energy and an improved appetite – if you do not exercise and use your appetite to eat lots of healthy stuff, then you will put on weight.  

So, the answer is, eat e’Pap to combat micronutrient deficiency, make sure your meals are balanced and get out there an exercise!  

Watch this space for info on micronutrients and hidden hunger.