WTF is going on at ETYM.

I see the minutes of the second board meeting at ETYM have been published. The originator has bumped the post (within a few hours). What is he trying to achieve. It is a locked topic, the members cannot comment. I.E. the only way the post is going to stay up, is bumping by the board members. As can be seen, only four of the board members showed up at the second board meeting. Two apologies for non attendance, no mention of my friend Dillinger. Has he copied me, and done a Captain Oates ? Time will tell, it always does.

ETYM board meeting here.

Eddie

What Blood Sugar Levels Are Healthy?

This is an area of some debate. The long-term studies show that the risk of complications drop off dramatically when an HbA1c  is lower than 7%, an estimated average blood glucose of 154 mg/dL or 8.6 mmol.  It continues to drop until it’s below 6%, an average blood sugar of 126 mg/dL or 7 mmol. There are some people who strive for lower targets, but there is not a lot of research outlining the benefits of that approach.

But that just looks at averages. In reality, there seems to be a huge difference in risk of complications based on genetics. There are many people who have lived thirty or forty years with type 1 diabetes running high blood sugars almost continuously and have no complications. There are others who have had nearly perfect blood sugars that still get complications. But for most people, it’s safe to say that striving for an HbA1c of below 7% and probably below 6.5% is a realistic goal for staying healthy.

More here.

Results for England. The National Diabetes Audit 2010-2011
Percentage of registered Type 1patients in England
HbA1c >= 6.5% (48 mmol/mol) = 92.6%
HbA1c >   7.5% (58 mmol/mol) = 71.3%
HbA1c > 10.0% (86 mmol/mol) = 18.1%

Percentage of registered Type 2 patients in England
HbA1c >= 6.5% (48 mmol/mol = 72.5%
HbA1c > 7.5% (58 mmol/mol) = 32.6%
HbA1c >10.0% (86 mmol/mol) = 6.8%

Year in and year out, the depressing NHS published audits, confirm no progress is being made, in the grim outcomes for many diabetics. So many diabetics never get to a safe HbA1c. There will be no improvement, until dietary recommendations from the NHS and DUK, are drastically changed, and diabetics are told to not base meals on starchy carbohydrates. The great tragedy, is the fact when checking diabetes forums and blogs, many find it comparatively easy, to get to safe blood glucose levels by changing diet and lifestyle. Drop the carbs, drop the HbA1c. Meanwhile the carnage continues.

Eddie

Patients Association concerned over negative effects from GP contract changes.

The Patients Association has criticised the Government for failing to consider ‘first and foremost’ the impact the GP contract changes, set to be implemented in April, would have on patient care.

Chief executive Kate Murphy claimed that the Patients Association helpline had already received record numbers of calls concerning GP services and she was worried the Government’s proposed changed would make matters worse.

Pulse revealed that a fifth of GPs will consider cutting the number of routine appointments available when the proposed contract changes are implemented from April.

READ THE FULL INVESTIGATION HERE

Commenting on the figures in the Express, Mrs Murphy said: ‘Less GPs, fewer receptionists and a cut in appointments can only risk reducing further the quality of services for patients.

‘The Government must consider the impact on patients first and foremost as part of any discussions on changes to GP contracts.’

Dr. Jay Wortman has hope !

Jay is one of the good guys. He is a medical Doctor, a type two diabetic and a lowcarber. Jay is a very modest man and works very hard for the lowcarb cause. Check out his latest post on his blog. When you get on Jays blog, see what other healthcare professionals thought of his latest presentation. As Jay says it gives him hope. That should give us all hope that common sense is beginning to prevail. More drugs are not the answer in the control of type two diabetes.

Words of Jay Wortman.

“There is an annual diabetes update course, primarily for physicians, that has included me in the program over the past few years. I am encouraged by the interest that my lecture generates. I have presented four times and, each time, I have received the highest evaluation from the attendees. My perception is that both the organizers of the conference and the audience are growing more receptive to the idea of using a ketogenic diet for the management of diabetes. I attach FYI the evaluation report from my most recent lecture. It gives me hope.”

Eddie

More here.

Patients with low grade obesity 'have lower risk of death'

The study

This Canadian review collated data from 97 observational cohort studies looking at all-cause mortality in with adults with a normal BMI - defined as 18.5 to 25 – compared with overweight and obese individuals.

The findings

Overweight (BMI between 25 to 30) patients were 6% less likely to die, compared with those that had a normal BMI. Those rated with grade one (BMI of 30 to 35) or two (BMI of 35 or above)obesity were 29% more likely to die from all causes, compared with normal BMI participants. However, there was no significant increase in the risk of death for patients with grade one obesity. This trend continued when the results were limited solely to studies adjusted for age, sex and smoking status.

What does it mean for GPs?

The researchers concluded that these findings were consistent with prior research, showing that overweight patients and those with moderate obesity have no significantly greater risk of death than normal BMI patients. They said the estimates of risks associated with normal weight, overweight and obesity may help to inform clinical decision making.

Expert comment

Dr David Haslam, a GPSI in obesity and cardiometabolic disease in London, said: ‘This study shows comprehensively that we are, as a profession, confused about obesity.

‘There is a definite entity known as the obesity paradox, which suggests that although obesity may be a causative factor in ischaemic heart disease, renal disease and heart failure, once the condition has occurred, a degree of overweight is protective, and that outcomes are improved. Although this piece adds to the confusion, it might ultimately help clarify this paradox.’

Information source here.

Ignorance is bliss !

If you have been around diabetes forums and blogs for a while you can pick up some great information, you can also pick up a huge amount of misinformation. We all have much to learn, and if you are half awake, one thing you pick up on pretty quickly is the massive corruption and criminal activity perpetrated by big pharma. The internet is awash with articles documenting the massive fines being levied against many of the largest pharma companies in the world. I mentioned this on a diabetes forum yesterday, to be challenged with this comment amongst others.

“At some point you have to just accept that big pharma is out to make money and push its products. Yes it does occasionally screw up with things like thalidomide but normally the strict scientific method that is used to test out drugs is pretty successful in my mind.”

Now, from a person very new to the diabetes scene that would be understandable, before my diabetes diagnosis I had close to zero interest in medication and big pharma drugs and the skulduggery which I now know to be endemic. Unfortunately this comment was made by a diabetes forum owner and moderator. The debate went from the ridiculous to the surreal, when he asked me. If I was taken to hospital with a broken leg, and needed antibiotics would I refuse them. Now, at this stage I realised I was arguing with someone who was not interested in fair or intelligent debate, and appears to be extremely naive. I was tempted to reply to the broken leg question with, no way would I go to hospital, I always carry some splints, 30lb of plaster of paris and some dock leaves in my back pack, but I answered in the positive. Of course I would accept and use antibiotics. As stated at length, drugs have saved countless millions, but have also killed or maimed millions. 

The argument went from the surreal to barking mad when the mod asked  “Don't you think governments around the world might start to notice if millions of their people were being killed?” I replied. Don't you agree millions around the world including the UK are being given terrible dietary advice which leads to an early death for diabetics ? What is the Government doing about it, nothing ! Governments are brought and paid for by big pharma and giant international food companies. Big money dictates how it is, not our local MPs many of which are putting their money into private healthcare as fast as they can. Which leads me to the item below. Even our MPs, many who are propagandists and lobbyists for  big pharma and junk food companies, or are Directors and share holders in the same, realise an inquiry needs to be held. My money is on a white wash job and nothing will change. I hope I am proved to be wrong, and much needed changes takes place. One thing is for sure, unless the forum makes some drastic changes, it is heading for Palookaville as we have seen with other forums, that wanted to run a cakes and commiserations outfit, and stifle real debate and intelligent argument, and perpetuate misinformation.

Eddie

Clinical trials in the UK are regulated by the Clinical Trials Directive which was transposed into UK law by the Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trials) Regulations 2004. In December 2011, the Health Research Authority was created to protect and promote the interests of patients and the public in health research. In July 2012, the European Commission produced proposals to revise the Clinical Trials Directive.

Transparency and disclosure of clinical trial data have been topical recently, in part due to the recently published book Bad Pharma, by Dr Ben Goldacre. It highlighted that pharmaceutical companies are entitled to conduct numerous clinical trials on a new drug but publish selectively, thus skewing the evidence base available for doctors and patients seeking to make informed decisions. 

Terms of Reference

The Committee seeks written submissions on the following matters:
1. Do the European Commission’s proposed revisions to the Clinical Trials Directive address the main barriers to conducting clinical trials in the UK and EU?
2. What is the role of the Health Research Authority (HRA) in relation to clinical trials and how effective has it been to date?
3. What evidence is there that pharmaceutical companies withhold clinical trial data and what impact does this have on public health?
4. How could the occurrence and results of clinical trials be made more open to scrutiny? Who should be responsible?
5. Can lessons about transparency and disclosure of clinical data be learned from other countries? 

More here.

Am I Cured of Diabetes?

When it comes to type 2 diabetes, these three words are everywhere: reversal, remission and cure. There are so many people who claim to have the answer to type 2 diabetes either through a diet plan or supplement. They claim to have a cure or that they can reverse your type 2. The argument that ensues takes offense at the idea that type 2 can be cured or reversed or even put into remission. I think that the evolution around these arguments stems from the irritation we feel when people tell us, “All you have to do is this…and you’re cured.” Sometimes, we get hypersensitive, and I’m as much to blame as anyone else. So let’s take a look at these three words. Here are the definitions taken from a medical dictionary:

Reversal: a change to an opposite condition, direction, or position.
Remission: a temporary or permanent decrease or subsidence of manifestations of a disease. 
Cure: a restoration of health; recovery from disease.

Based on the definitions above, have I reversed my diabetes or put it into remission? Am I cured? Well, I could say that it’s reversed because I have changed the direction of my disease. My blood glucose was going up and now it’s going down: reversal. I could also say that my diabetes is in remission because I have a decrease in the manifestations of the disease. As for cured, I may have restored my health but I have not recovered from the disease. In all three cases, diabetes is still there lurking, ready to return should I change my habits again. What I’ve done, actually, is manage my diabetes through healthy habits that have made my diabetes appear as though it’s not there.

It’s just semantics, people. It’s up to you to search out a food plan that works for you. Ignore the naysayers and do what’s right for you. Don’t be duped into thinking that you will be cured or that your D will go away. Maybe you can reverse it or see your complications go into remission, but it is up to you to stay vigilant and follow your path to better health.

Full story here.

A new blood pressure measuring device which can also detect a dangerous heart condition.

A new blood pressure measuring device which can also detect a dangerous heart condition has been backed by the NHS watchdog.

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence says GPs could use it routinely to spot more patients with atrial fibrillation (AF).

AF is an erratic and often fast heartbeat affecting 800,000 people in the UK and is a major cause of stroke.

The device NICE is recommending in England is called WatchBP Home A.

It looks like a normal blood pressure monitor, with an inflatable cuff that goes around the patient's arm.

At the same time as measuring blood pressure, it can check a patient's pulse.

If people over 65 were to be checked with the WatchBP Home A device, it could save the NHS about £26m and benefit about 400,000 people, says NICE.

Prof Carole Longson from NICE said: "The guidance is not about screening for atrial fibrillation, but about the benefits that the device offers in helping to pick up atrial fibrillation by chance in people with suspected high blood pressure or those being screened for high blood pressure, in primary care."

More here.

Don't fear saturated fats !

“Before 1920 coronary heart disease was rare in America; so rare that when a young internist named Paul Dudley White introduced the German electrocardiograph to his colleagues at Harvard University, they advised him to concentrate on a more profitable branch of medicine. The new machine revealed the presence of arterial blockages, thus permitting early diagnosis of coronary heart disease. But in those days clogged arteries were a medical rarity, and White had to search for patients who could benefit from his new technology. During the next forty years, however, the incidence of coronary heart disease rose dramatically, so much so that by the mid fifties heart disease was the leading cause of death among Americans. Today heart disease causes at least 40% of all US deaths. If, as we have been told, heart disease results from the consumption of saturated fats, one would expect to find a corresponding increase in animal fat in the American diet. Actually, the reverse is true. During the sixty-year period from 1910 to 1970, the proportion of traditional animal fat in the American diet declined from 83% to 62%, and butter consumption plummeted from eighteen pounds per person per year to four. During the past eighty years, dietary cholesterol intake has increased only 1%. During the same period the percentage of dietary vegetable oils in the form of margarine, shortening and refined oils increased about 400% while the consumption of sugar and processed foods increased about 60%.

The Framingham Heart Study is often cited as proof of the lipid hypothesis. This study began in 1948 and involved some 6,000 people from the town of Framingham, Massachusetts. Two groups were compared at five-year intervals—those who consumed little cholesterol and saturated fat and those who consumed large amounts. After 40 years, the director of this study had to admit: "In Framingham, Mass, the more saturated fat one ate, the more cholesterol one ate, the more calories one ate, the lower the person’s serum cholesterol. . . we found that the people who ate the most cholesterol, ate the most saturated fat, ate the most calories, weighed the least and were the most physically active." The study did show that those who weighed more and had abnormally high blood cholesterol levels were slightly more at risk for future heart disease; but weight gain and cholesterol levels had an inverse correlation with fat and cholesterol intake in the diet.”

This is a great item well worth reading more here.

Insulin therapy may boost death risk in Type 2 diabetes mellitus patients !

The aim was to investigate the association between human insulin and cancer incidence and mortality in Chinese patients with type 2 diabetes.

Methods

We recruited 8,774 insulin-naïve diabetes patients from the Shanghai Diabetes Registry (SDR). The follow-up rate was 85.4%. All subjects were divided into the insulin use cohort (n = 3,639) and the non-insulin use cohort (n = 5,135). The primary outcome was the first diagnosis of any cancer. The secondary outcome was all-cause mortality. Cox proportional hazards model was used to estimate the relative risk (RR) of cancer and mortality.

Results

We observed 98 cancer events in the insulin use cohort and 170 in the non-insulin use cohort. Cancer incidence rates were 78.6 and 74.3 per 10,000 patients per year in the insulin users and the non-insulin users, respectively. No significant difference in cancer risk was observed between the two cohorts (adjusted RR = 1.20, 95% CI 0.89–1.62, P = 0.228). Regarding site-specific cancers, only the risk of liver cancer was significantly higher in the insulin users compared to that in the non-insulin users (adjusted RR = 2.84, 95% CI 1.12–7.17, P = 0.028). The risks of overall mortality (adjusted RR = 1.89, 95% CI 1.47–2.43, P<0.0001) and death from cancer (adjusted RR = 2.16, 95% CI 1.39–3.35, P = 0.001) were all significantly higher in the insulin users than in the non-insulin users.

Conclusion

There was no excess risk of overall cancer in patients with type 2 diabetes who were treated with human insulin. However, a significantly higher risk of liver cancer was found in these patients. Moreover, insulin users showed higher risks of overall and cancer mortality. Considering that individuals treated with insulin were more likely to be advanced diabetic patients, caution should be used in interpreting these results.

Source here.

Thousands of clinical trials have not reported their results; some have not even been registered.

Thousands of clinical trials have not reported their results; some have not even been registered.

Information on what was done and what was found in these trials could be lost forever to doctors and researchers, leading to bad treatment decisions, missed opportunities for good medicine, and trials being repeated unnecessarily on people and animals.

All trials past and present should be registered, and the full methods and the results reported.

We call on governments, regulators and research bodies to implement measures to achieve this.

Data will be held by Sense About Science. Read our privacy policy here.

An initiative of Bad Science, Sense About Science, BMJ, James Lind Initiative and Centre for Evidence-based Medicine.

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Merck begins overseas recall of HDL cholesterol drug !

Merck & Co said it is recalling Tredaptive, its medicine to raise "good" HDL cholesterol levels, in overseas markets where it is sold, after it failed to prevent heart problems in a large study and raised safety concerns.

The medicine is not approved in the United States but the U.S. drugmaker sells it in about 40 countries.

Merck said it would recall stocks of Tredaptive now held by wholesalers, but that pharmacies can continue to dispense their remaining supplies. Even so, the company said it plans to discourage doctors from prescribing the pill based on negative findings from the trial which were announced last month. The study followed more than 25,000 patients in Europe and China for almost four years.

Merck in December said Tredaptive did no better in the study at preventing heart attacks, deaths or strokes than traditional statin drugs that lower "bad" LDL cholesterol.

Moreover, Merck said the medicine significantly raised the incidence of some types of nonfatal but serious side effects in the study. They included blood, lymph and gastrointestinal problems, as well as respiratory and skin issues.

Tredaptive was approved in the European Union in 2008, but the U.S. Food and Drug Administration was unwilling to approve the pill until Merck conducted the costly long-term study to better assess its safety and effectiveness.

More here.

Coca-Cola to address obesity in advert !

Fizzy-drink giant Coca-Cola is set to launch a new advert addressing obesity for the first time on television.

The two-minute commercial highlights the firm's record of making low-calorie drinks and reminds viewers all foods contain calories.

The ad, which airs on US cable networks on Monday, follows mounting pressure on the soft drinks industry.

New York City is preparing to ban large sugary drinks in restaurants, cinemas and stadiums.

Coca-Cola has said the video was not made in response to criticism of the soft drink industry, but is an effort to raise awareness.

It is not the first time the Atlanta-based firm has used advertising to address this issue, but it is a first for television.

More here.

Simvastatin Effects on Skeletal Muscle

Relation to Decreased Mitochondrial Function and Glucose Intolerance

Abstract

Objectives  Glucose tolerance and skeletal muscle coenzyme Q10 (Q10) content, mitochondrial density, and mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) capacity were measured in simvastatin-treated patients (n = 10) and in well-matched control subjects (n = 9).

Background  A prevalent side effect of statin therapy is muscle pain, and yet the basic mechanism behind it remains unknown. We hypothesize that a statin-induced reduction in muscle Q10 may attenuate mitochondrial OXPHOS capacity, which may be an underlying mechanism.

Methods  Plasma glucose and insulin concentrations were measured during an oral glucose tolerance test. Mitochondrial OXPHOS capacity was measured in permeabilized muscle fibers by high-resolution respirometry in a cross-sectional design. Mitochondrial content (estimated by citrate synthase [CS] activity, cardiolipin content, and voltage-dependent anion channel [VDAC] content) as well as Q10 content was determined.

Results  Simvastatin-treated patients had an impaired glucose tolerance and displayed a decreased insulin sensitivity index. Regarding mitochondrial studies, Q10 content was reduced (p = 0.05), whereas mitochondrial content was similar between the groups. OXPHOS capacity was comparable between groups when complex I– and complex II–linked substrates were used alone, but when complex I + II–linked substrates were used (eliciting convergent electron input into the Q intersection [maximal ex vivo OXPHOS capacity]), a decreased (p < 0.01) capacity was observed in the patients compared with the control subjects.

Conclusions  These simvastatin-treated patients were glucose intolerant. A decreased Q10 content was accompanied by a decreased maximal OXPHOS capacity in the simvastatin-treated patients. It is plausible that this finding partly explains the muscle pain and exercise intolerance that many patients experience with their statin treatment.

Full article: http://content.onlinejacc.org/article.aspx?articleid=1555209

Graham

The xyzzy debate.

Rather than turn this into a comment, that gets lost within a thread, I thought we could debate the subjects in an open type forum setting. You know my email address, so you can send your responses to me, and I will place them on this thread, unedited of course.

Stop changing the subject mate.

Yes I did not answer your last comments fully, I wanted to keep it between me and you. Regarding your comment, you are pushing for an answer, so I will give it to you.

 “Certainly didn't help Lucy did it?” 

This is lucylocket who stated yesterday. “I think, looking at recent postings, that Eddie is trying to stir up trouble on this site, He was the one who mentioned Sal, he is the one who keeps talking about using controversy to increasing our rate of being read by others. He is the one talking about karma and stuff.”

You do realise Lucylocket is also known as fibreclaireUK, and was a regular poster on this blog, and was certainly up for some winding people up, at other forums, when it suited her. Posting on the "fight club" blog, not the shrinking violet she appears to be eh.

Like I said you seem to be more into karma, thanks you's, ratings etc rather than actually helping people at the moment which is a shame. A bit up yourself to be frank.

It is true the karma and thank you’s did mean something to me, I accepted them in good faith, and to me it was a marker people liked my posts, and felt I had something positive to offer.

Sounds a bit like what I was ACTUALLY writing about on my thread doesn't it? You know the difference between the true helpful LC message and a bastardized celebrity cultist crazy version of it.

Sorry was you referring to me or Jimmy Moore ?

The bottom line in this is that you object to us discussing those GTT experiments because they show that people who are diabetic can quite happily get good levels across a wide range of regimes. That is a message you do not want heard for some reason or another. 

I don’t object to people talking about anything. That is why I started  a separate thread, so I did not derail or take other threads off topic.

You then tried to disrupt the discussions that were going on in an identical manner as the low carb antis did on DCUK. The difference is we have a karma system and our members told you what they thought of your tactics. The words pot and kettle come to mind.

The words pot and kettle come to mind, don’t they just. I remember when you and other board members were staunch lowcarb activists. Taking on lowcarb antis and causing disruption got four board members banned including you.You and I have taken on people that pushed a diet useless for many, and then you use a carb number to newbies that the NHS and DUK would applaud. Let's not forget you guys fought anti lowcarbers 24/7 until you got banned. You then start your own forum and run it as a carbon copy of DCUK.

Grow up and start doing some real good like my mate Fergie does. He does a stricter carb regime than you and wouldn't dream of telling someone else that his is the only way.

Start doing some real good, what something like paying for the hosting of a diabetes website and helping the newly diagnosed for almost five years. Working with people that contact me via the website via emails, telephone and face to face meetings. Maybe working over the years offering my services as a photographer free of charge to charities. Working on three blogs spreading the word re lowcarbing and it’s many benefits and setting up a lowcarb recipe blog to help get newbie’s on their way. 6000 posts on diabetes forums etc etc.

I am fully aware of Stephens charity work, and I know he is your mate, you keeping telling us. Let’s leave Stephen out of this debate, this is between me and you. When have I said my way was the only way . The fact is if you remember at DCUK almost all the success stories featured lowcarb. That fact has remained constant for nearly five years, and it will probably remain constant for the next five years. The list of people using 150 grams of carb a day and holding good numbers is short. Some of the best controlled diabetics I have heard of or know are Dr.Jay Wortman, Fergus Craig, Richard Bernstein MD, Pneu, Stephen and Wiflib, how many more do you want ? all on around 30 carbs per day. These guys are fully aware that BG numbers over 7.8 causes damage. They also know lowcarbing is the best way to control diabetes, for the majority of diabetics, type one and two, but not all.

Eddie

Post update xyzzy aprox 8pm on the ETYM forum.

"I'm not your puppet to demand I do some debate with so don't expect an answer on nyour blog anytime soon. I posted on your blog what I thought and that's an end of it so just deal with it. By the looks of the blog post you seem to have learnt very little and your menacing tone towards Lucy who is one of the nicest people I know is really most unpleasant. If you come on this forum and behave as "a low carb anti" and attempt to de-rail threads then expect to be treated as one. It's really that simple."

So if you post on the forum you can get edited, deleted or thread locked. Banning will come soon I expect. This is Kenny/Cugila MK 2 and no mistake. 

Eddie

Are diabetics Nutters ?

Over 500 fold difference in type one diabetes rates in children !

When you have an interest in diabetes, and have read articles over the years, it’s rare to find  really stunning information. There are 88 countries that collect information regarding type one diabetes in children. I find the difference between countries staggering. For instance, Venezuela ranked at number 88 has 0.1 cases per 100,000 of population. Finland ranked at number 1 has 57.6 per 100,000 of population. The UK ranked at number 5 at 24.5 per 100,000. 

I think you will agree, an amazing difference between countries.

Eddie

Full list by country here.

The Great Escape !

ETYM diabetes forum or Gulag ?

Don’t get me wrong folks, I know I am far from perfect, who the hell wants to be perfect ? I am by nature a boat rocker, many may say a trouble maker, but I cannot stand mediocrity and arse licking. Over at ETYM I have acquired 166 thank you’s for 303 posts, you don’t need the brains of Einstein to realise a thank you for every two posts. Some people must like what I am saying. Last night at around eight pm I had 20 Karmas. Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate they wasn’t going to get me the job of CEO at Microsoft but maybe a small token of appreciation from forum members. Within 24 hours I am down to 12, OK I am not cutting my wrists, but hey what’s going on. Well I rocked the boat ! I would make a comment on the forum but the Global Moderator stated this evening.

“I think it's also time to take this back to topic, karma or lack of is not what this thread is about, and it's also not a weapon to use against other posters. Any more discussions about karma will be deleted!”

My Karma or lack of,  is not important, but Jeez, is this paranoia at best, and at worst the sort of comment we saw so often from Kenny, the ex. Chief henchman at diabetes.co.uk.

Eddie

Jimmy Moore killing type two diabetics ?

Just when you think you’ve seen it all on blogs and forums, something comes along that blows your brains out ! Only a few weeks ago my good friend Jimmy Moore was being accused of being a Neo Nazi, a very serious accusation, even in the cut throat world of low carb, and Palio on the blogosphere. But that accusation pails into insignificance when compared to this comment posted below. Jimmy is now killing type two diabetics. What next ? Jimmy Moore is involved in a Ménage à trois with Gary Taubes and Carbsane. You just couldn’t make it up !

“Well it isn't fine by me Mr Moore that kind of stunt has probably just killed a load of T2 diabetics who will now be unnecessarily turned off by your version of the LC message. I loathe anything cultist and get increasingly frustrated by those like Moore and others who appear to me to be more into promoting a style, a one way only way of life and themselves over genuinely wishing to help people like Annika Dahlqvist intended.”

Stay tuned to this one folks, as we say on here, this one is gonna be a runner !

Eddie

Read more here.

New Obesity, Type 2 Diabetes Gene Identified !

An international team of researchers has identified a new gene that plays an important role in obesity and insulin resistance, a condition that increases the risk of developing type 2 diabetes and heart disease. They suggest their findings point to a potential gene therapy approach to tackle these conditions.

In their background information the researchers explain that:

"Obesity develops as a result of altered energy homeostasis favoring fat storage."

In other words, obesity is what happens when the finely tuned processes that regulate food absorption and energy production go awry, and the balance (homeostasis) moves in the wrong direction: towards excessive storage of fat. 

Insulin resistance is a risk factor for type 2 diabetes and other health problems. It develops when the body uses insulin, which is needed to control the amount of sugar in the body, less effectively than normal. The result is raised levels of blood sugar and fats.

Specific genes make people more likely to develop insulin resistance and diabetes. Excess weight and lack of exercise also contribute to insulin resistance.

More here.

Recent findings on the health effects of omega-3 fatty acids and statins, and their interactions: do statins inhibit omega-3?

Abstract

Early randomized controlled trials (RCTs) demonstrated the health benefits of omega-3 fatty
acids (n-3), whereas recent RCTs were negative. We now address the issue, focusing on the
temporal changes having occurred: most patients in recent RCTs are no longer n-3 deficient
and the vast majority are now treated with statins. Recent RCTs testing n-3 against
arrhythmias suggest that n-3 reduce the risk only in patients not taking a statin. Other recent
RCTs in secondary prevention were negative although, in a post-hoc analysis separating
statin users and non-users, non-significant protection of n-3 was observed among statin nonusers
whereas statin users had no effect. Recent RCTs testing statins – after the
implementation of the New Clinical Trial Regulation in 2007 – are negative (or flawed)
suggesting that the lack of effect of n-3 cannot be attributed to a parallel protection by statins.
Finally, statins favor the metabolism of omega-6 fatty acids (n-6), which in turn inhibits n-3
and, contrary to n-3, they increase insulin resistance and the risk of diabetes.Thus, n-3 and
statins are counteractive at several levels and statins appear to inhibit n-3.

Full Provisional PDF http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1741-7015-11-5.pdf

Graham

Alex Jones goes bat shit on the Piers Morgan show. It’s not the guns it’s big pharma Alex says !

As anyone who reads this blog knows, we are no fans of big pharma. Sure drugs and medicines save millions every year, but we believe big pharma drugs kills and maims millions every year. The billions of $ in fines over the last few years, prove big pharma are dishonest and profit comes before patient safety, far too often.

Alex Jones is a conspiracy theorist and a madman say some, others believe he is the voice of truth and freedom. Check out this recent interview, which will be on UK TV this week, and ask yourself would you want to be around Jones if he was armed ? Whatever Alex Jones agenda is, he blew it big time on this occasion. He blames big pharma for the 11,000 gun killings a year in the US, in the UK 35 people were killed by guns last year.

Let’s get a few things straight here, we have our fair share of mentally disturbed people in the UK, and there is no shortage of people on mind changing meds, could it be our low death by guns rate, is because very few people own guns ? Could it be most people would not want to own a gun in the UK, even if the law was not as strict as it is ? It’s the last thing I would ever want to own, whether legal or not.

Let’s face it, high power automatic weapons, mentally ill people, and drugs are a deadly combination. Now we can’t stop people becoming mentally ill, and big pharma drugs help many, so they are here to stay, guns are the problem, as the gun death stats prove.

Check this short video out, and tell me Alex is not out to lunch ! Eddie

Secret government documents reveal vaccines to be a total hoax !

A recent investigative report compiled by Dr. Lucija Tomljenovic, Ph.D., uncovers more than 30 years of hidden government documents exposing these vaccine schedules as a complete hoax, not to mention the fraud of the vaccines themselves to provide any real protection against disease.

Though her paper focuses primarily on the British health system's elaborate cover-up of the dirty truth about its own national vaccination program, the tenets of the study's findings still apply to vaccination schedules in general, which are typically designed for the purpose of serving corporate interests rather than public health. Government authorities, it turns out, in an ongoing bid to satisfy the private goals of the vaccine industry, have deliberately covered up pertinent information about the dangers and ineffectiveness of vaccines from parents in order to maintain a high rate of vaccination compliance. And in the process, they have put countless millions of children at risk of serious side effects and death.

More here.

The full report here.


Summary

In conclusion, by apparently prioritizing vaccination policy over vaccine safety, the JCVI, the DH
and the Committee on Safety of Medicines (CSM) may have shown a disregard for the safety of
children. Through selective data reporting, the JCVI in conjunction with the DH, has promulgated
information relating to vaccine safety that may be inaccurate and potentially misleading, thereby
making it impossible for  the parents to make a fully informed consent regarding vaccination.
Furthermore, by 1) apparently misleading patients about the true risks of adverse reactions as to
gain their consent for the administration of the treatment and 2) seemingly siding with vaccine
manufacturers rather than public health interests, the JCVI and the CSM appear to have signally
failed their fiduciary duty to protect individuals from vaccines of questionable safety. If these
provisional conclusions are indeed correct, then the information presented here may help us in
understanding the UK government’s and the JCVI’s official position on vaccine damage, that is, one
of persistent denial.

Wheat Belly" author: Wheat as addictive as crack !

Dr. William Davis, author of the best-selling diet book, "Wheat Belly," speaks to the "CBS This Morning"