Johns Hopkins Scientist Reveals Shocking Report on Flu Vaccines.
Doshi’s concerns echo those of Dr. Russell Blaylock, a neurosurgeon and author of “The Blaylock Wellness Report” who has deep concerns over the safety and efficacy of the flu vaccine.
Not only is the vaccine not safe, Dr. Blaylock tells Newsmax Health, it doesn’t even work. “The vaccine is completely worthless, and the government knows it,” he says. “There are three reasons the government tells the elderly why they should get flu shots: secondary pneumonia, hospitalization, and death. Yet a study by the Cochrane group studied hundreds of thousands of people and found it offered zero protection for those three things in the general community. It offered people in nursing homes some immunity against the flu — at best one-third — but that was only if they picked the right vaccine.”
A study released in February found that the flu shot was only 9 percent effective in protecting seniors against the 2012-2013 season’s most virulent influenza bug.
What’s even worse is that small children who are given the flu vaccine get no protection from the disease. “The government also says that every baby over the age of six months should have a vaccine, and they know it contains a dose of mercury that is toxic to the brain,” says Dr. Blaylock. “They also know the studies have shown that the flu vaccine has zero — zero — effectiveness in children under five.”
For most people, says Dr. Blaylock, flu vaccines don’t prevent the flu but actually increase the odds of getting it. The mercury contained in vaccines is such a strong immune depressant that a flu shot suppresses immunity for several weeks. “This makes people highly susceptible to catching the flu,” he says. “They may even think the vaccine gave them the flu, but that’s not true — it depressed their immune system and then they caught the flu.”
Mercury overstimulates the brain for several years, says Dr. Blaylock, and that activation is the cause of Alzheimer’s and other degenerative diseases. One study found that those who get the flu vaccine for three to five years increase their risk of Alzheimer’s disease 10-fold.
Doshi asserts that influenza is a case of “disease mongering” in an effort to expand markets. He points to the fact that deaths from flu declined sharply during the middle of the 20th century, long before the huge vaccine campaigns that kicked off the 21st century.
Why do drug companies push the flu vaccine? “It’s all about money,” says Dr. Blaylock. “Vaccines are a pharmaceutical company’s dream. They have a product that both the government and the media will help them sell, and since vaccines are protected, they can’t be sued if anyone has a complication.”
Doshi’s article “is a breath of fresh air,” says Dr. Blaylock. “This article exposes in well-defined and articulate terms what has been known for a long time — the flu vaccine promotion is a fraud.
“Here’s the bottom line,” says Dr. Blaylock. “The vast number of people who get the flu vaccine aren’t going to get any benefit, but they get all of the risks and complications.”
More on this story here.
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Thursday, 20 November 2014
Wednesday, 19 November 2014
Twitter still hitting the spot for me !
- We need to look at education for healthcare professionals so they can support patients in their learning #APPGDiabetes @JDRFUK
Diabetes UK 
Eddie Mitchell
@DiabetesUK @JDRFUK You guys need to start promoting a healthy diet for diabetics, dump the diet of slow death !
- #Type1uncut needs your help to fund more videos for and by young adults with Type 1 #diabetes. Find out more here: http://bit.ly/1xUA3TP
- @DiabetesUK Can you claw back some of the money you gave to Prof. Roy Taylor to tell us what we already know, just a thought.
Damon Gameau: THAT SUGAR FILM
THAT SUGAR FILM is one man’s journey to discover the bitter truth about sugar. Damon Gameau embarks on a unique experiment to document the effects of a high sugar diet on a healthy body, consuming only foods that are commonly perceived as ‘healthy’. Through this entertaining and informative journey, Damon highlights some of the issues that plague the sugar industry, and where sugar lurks on supermarket shelves. THAT SUGAR FILM will forever change the way you think about ‘healthy’ food.
THAT SUGAR FILM (2015)
Director: Damon Gameau
Starring: Damon Gameau, and featuring guest cameos from the likes of Stephen Fry, Isabel Lucas and Brenton Thwaites, interviews with Gary Taubes, Michael Moss and Kimber Stanhope plus a rocking soundtrack including Depeche Mode, Peter Gabriel and Florence and the Machine.
Graham
THAT SUGAR FILM (2015)
Director: Damon Gameau
Starring: Damon Gameau, and featuring guest cameos from the likes of Stephen Fry, Isabel Lucas and Brenton Thwaites, interviews with Gary Taubes, Michael Moss and Kimber Stanhope plus a rocking soundtrack including Depeche Mode, Peter Gabriel and Florence and the Machine.
Graham
The dietary skulduggery never ends !
Check out this from the Zoe Harcombe blog.
The ASA & trolls working together to censor progressive thinking.
If I told you that a private company had instructed me to remove this video, I would expect you to be shocked. What do you think about the same private company instructing me to stop saying this: “the calorie theory and conventional weight loss advice is wrong” and this: “weight gain and loss also depends far more on carbs consumed, than calories, or fat, consumed“? Appalled? Outraged?
That’s exactly what has happened, over the past year. The private company is the Advertising Standards Authority.
Executive Summary
* You probably think that the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) is an official body. You would be wrong. It is a self-appointed, self-regulated, upholder of the opinions of another non-official, self-appointed, self-regulated body: the Committees of Advertising Practice (CAP).
* CAP make up ‘the Codes of Advertising Practice”; the ASA apply them. Think of CAP and the ASA like Simon and Louis in the X Factor, only not as entertaining: Simon makes up the rules, Louis follows them.
They are two sides of the same coin; partners in crime. One has a red web site; the other has a blue web site – look how similar they are. Well, they do live at the same address: Mid City Place, 71 High Holborn, London, WC1V 6QT. They even publish a shared annual report.
* Both bodies use the tag line “Legal, decent, honest, truthful.” These are not legal bodies, (as in set up by law) let alone decent, honest or truthful. These two organisations are more misleading per se than any misleading advert I have seen. The most misleading thing is that they lead you to believe they are official bodies. They aren’t. They write to you as if they have legal powers. They don’t. You can’t even lodge a complaint about them being misleading because they are accountable to no one.
* CAP/ASA decided in 2010 that they will extend their self appointed remit to the internet. As someone who does not place adverts and does not allow adverts on any of my web sites, I would not expect to have anything to do with either body. CAP and the ASA have different views. They have decreed that, if you are connected to ‘a product’ in any way e.g. author of a book, web pages that they decide are connected with that book shall be deemed adverts.
* CAP have opinions. They have opinions on things you may not even think warrant an opinion. They have opinions on global warming, fat burning, the calorie theory, current dietary advice, cholesterol, stripograms (yes, really!) and religious organisations, just as examples.
* In my world of diet, health and nutrition, CAP believe that the current dietary advice is correct. They believe the calorie theory. They believe that Flora gunge is good for the heart and that cholesterol is bad. They have no evidence for any of this – but they are a self-appointed regulator, so they do whatever they like.
* A troll writes to the ASA and complains that you say things on your web site like “the calorie theory and conventional weight loss advice is wrong“. The ASA then writes to you saying:
i) We have decreed that your web page is an advert;
ii) You are in breach of the CAP code; and
iii) You must stop saying things that CAP don’t like, or we will put you on our naughty boys’ list.
Hence – we are now on the naughty boys’ list. Or, as Dr Malcolm Kendrick says, we now have a badge of honour!
This blog is about censorship. This blog is about one unofficial body trying to silence any views that are different to the opinions of their partner unofficial body, which you can assume to be conventional. It’s also about the scum levels that troll cowards are stooping to, to try to silence progressive thinking.
Read more on this story here.
Eddie
The ASA & trolls working together to censor progressive thinking.
If I told you that a private company had instructed me to remove this video, I would expect you to be shocked. What do you think about the same private company instructing me to stop saying this: “the calorie theory and conventional weight loss advice is wrong” and this: “weight gain and loss also depends far more on carbs consumed, than calories, or fat, consumed“? Appalled? Outraged?
That’s exactly what has happened, over the past year. The private company is the Advertising Standards Authority.
Executive Summary
* You probably think that the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) is an official body. You would be wrong. It is a self-appointed, self-regulated, upholder of the opinions of another non-official, self-appointed, self-regulated body: the Committees of Advertising Practice (CAP).
* CAP make up ‘the Codes of Advertising Practice”; the ASA apply them. Think of CAP and the ASA like Simon and Louis in the X Factor, only not as entertaining: Simon makes up the rules, Louis follows them.
They are two sides of the same coin; partners in crime. One has a red web site; the other has a blue web site – look how similar they are. Well, they do live at the same address: Mid City Place, 71 High Holborn, London, WC1V 6QT. They even publish a shared annual report.
* Both bodies use the tag line “Legal, decent, honest, truthful.” These are not legal bodies, (as in set up by law) let alone decent, honest or truthful. These two organisations are more misleading per se than any misleading advert I have seen. The most misleading thing is that they lead you to believe they are official bodies. They aren’t. They write to you as if they have legal powers. They don’t. You can’t even lodge a complaint about them being misleading because they are accountable to no one.
* CAP/ASA decided in 2010 that they will extend their self appointed remit to the internet. As someone who does not place adverts and does not allow adverts on any of my web sites, I would not expect to have anything to do with either body. CAP and the ASA have different views. They have decreed that, if you are connected to ‘a product’ in any way e.g. author of a book, web pages that they decide are connected with that book shall be deemed adverts.
* CAP have opinions. They have opinions on things you may not even think warrant an opinion. They have opinions on global warming, fat burning, the calorie theory, current dietary advice, cholesterol, stripograms (yes, really!) and religious organisations, just as examples.
* In my world of diet, health and nutrition, CAP believe that the current dietary advice is correct. They believe the calorie theory. They believe that Flora gunge is good for the heart and that cholesterol is bad. They have no evidence for any of this – but they are a self-appointed regulator, so they do whatever they like.
* A troll writes to the ASA and complains that you say things on your web site like “the calorie theory and conventional weight loss advice is wrong“. The ASA then writes to you saying:
i) We have decreed that your web page is an advert;
ii) You are in breach of the CAP code; and
iii) You must stop saying things that CAP don’t like, or we will put you on our naughty boys’ list.
Hence – we are now on the naughty boys’ list. Or, as Dr Malcolm Kendrick says, we now have a badge of honour!
This blog is about censorship. This blog is about one unofficial body trying to silence any views that are different to the opinions of their partner unofficial body, which you can assume to be conventional. It’s also about the scum levels that troll cowards are stooping to, to try to silence progressive thinking.
Read more on this story here.
Eddie
Low carb blueberry muffins
Photograph and text above taken from a fantastic website, to learn how to make these muffins and to find more great food ideas, check out the 'cook eat paleo' site which can be found here.
Eddie
Tuesday, 18 November 2014
Poor people 'have fewer teeth' than rich, study suggests, and more complete bollocks !
The poorest people in society have eight fewer teeth than the richest by the time they reach their 70s, a study has suggested.
More than 6,000 people were involved in the research which showed oral health was substantially worse among the poorest 20% compared with the richest.
The paper, published in the Journal of Dental Research, showed poor people also suffered more from tooth decay.
Eight teeth is a quarter of a full adult set.
The research concluded those with lower income, lower occupational class, higher deprivation and lower educational attainment generally had the worst clinical outcomes.
Their symptoms included having more tooth decay, gum disease, gaps in their teeth and fewer teeth overall.
However, previously published research has showed the younger generation have much healthier mouths than their predecessors.
More on this story here.
So, a rich person who can afford the best possible healthcare, can have a better outcome than a poor man who is lucky if he can find a dentist who will treat him for free under the NHS. Who would have imagined that? Tell me, do these people get paid for writing this crap?
Eddie
Centre established to study diabetes in children
Type 1 diabetes cases in children have doubled around the world leading to concerns about the significance of early childhood development in increasing risk factors later on.
Professor Jenny Couper from the Robinson Research Institute has been granted $2.5 million to set up the Adelaide-based Centre of Research Excellence to investigate the development of type 1 diabetes before and after birth.
Couper said the centre will be made up of clinicians and scientists from around Australia.
“We are following 1400 children across Australia, who have a degree relative with type 1 diabetes, from pregnancy through early childhood,” Prof Couper said.
“We will study the children’s genes and the environment that they’re exposed to - including nutrition, viral infections and the healthy bacteria that live in our bodies.”
Prof Couper believes understanding the modern environment is the key to finding out how to prevent potentially life-threatening complications associated with type 1 diabetes from occurring.
“We believe our environment has both harmful and protective effects which children are exposed to very early in life, perhaps even before they’re born,” she said.
“Our research is finding out how this is happening and what is happening at a molecular level to lead to type 1 diabetes.”
The institutions involved in the Centre for Research Excellence include University of Adelaide, Royal Melbourne Hospital, University of New South Wales and the University of Queensland, University of Western Australia and the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute.
Regards, Jim Plouffe, Publishing Editor
Professor Jenny Couper from the Robinson Research Institute has been granted $2.5 million to set up the Adelaide-based Centre of Research Excellence to investigate the development of type 1 diabetes before and after birth.
Couper said the centre will be made up of clinicians and scientists from around Australia.
“We are following 1400 children across Australia, who have a degree relative with type 1 diabetes, from pregnancy through early childhood,” Prof Couper said.
“We will study the children’s genes and the environment that they’re exposed to - including nutrition, viral infections and the healthy bacteria that live in our bodies.”
Prof Couper believes understanding the modern environment is the key to finding out how to prevent potentially life-threatening complications associated with type 1 diabetes from occurring.
“We believe our environment has both harmful and protective effects which children are exposed to very early in life, perhaps even before they’re born,” she said.
“Our research is finding out how this is happening and what is happening at a molecular level to lead to type 1 diabetes.”
The institutions involved in the Centre for Research Excellence include University of Adelaide, Royal Melbourne Hospital, University of New South Wales and the University of Queensland, University of Western Australia and the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute.
Info came in via email from
This is a royalty-free story from The Lead South Australia, a news service providing stories about innovation in South Australia. Please feel free to use the story in any form of media. The story sources are linked in with the copy and all contacts are willing to talk further about the story.
Regards, Jim Plouffe, Publishing Editor
Eddie
Can we believe any medical research – at all?
From Dr. Malcolm Kendrick
"I have now finished my book, to be called ‘Doctoring Data.’ It has taken a long time to write, mainly because I had to bring together hundreds of different strands of thinking and research. Each strand seemed to get longer and longer as I attempted to pursue them to the end. In many cases I never really found the end."
This book is on my list to buy when available, in the post linked below he quotes Drummond Rennie, at the time the Deputy Editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association.:
"There seems to be no study too fragmented, no hypothesis too trivial, no literature citation too biased or too egotistical, no design too warped, no methodology too bungled, no presentation of results too inaccurate, too obscure, and too contradictory, no analysis too self serving, no argument too circular, no conclusions too trifling or too unjustified, and no grammar and syntax too offensive for a paper to end up in print."
Who and what does the above remind you of? For me it reminds me of all the negative dross thrown up the majority of healthcare professionals and dietitians and the nonsense they talk regarding low carb and healthy fats man has ate since the beginning of time. Plus a few low carb antis that hang around on diabetes forums working full time and these days have lost the argument big time, they seem to be the only ones that fail to see they have lost the plot.
Malcolm's post is here.
Eddie
"I have now finished my book, to be called ‘Doctoring Data.’ It has taken a long time to write, mainly because I had to bring together hundreds of different strands of thinking and research. Each strand seemed to get longer and longer as I attempted to pursue them to the end. In many cases I never really found the end."
This book is on my list to buy when available, in the post linked below he quotes Drummond Rennie, at the time the Deputy Editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association.:
"There seems to be no study too fragmented, no hypothesis too trivial, no literature citation too biased or too egotistical, no design too warped, no methodology too bungled, no presentation of results too inaccurate, too obscure, and too contradictory, no analysis too self serving, no argument too circular, no conclusions too trifling or too unjustified, and no grammar and syntax too offensive for a paper to end up in print."
Who and what does the above remind you of? For me it reminds me of all the negative dross thrown up the majority of healthcare professionals and dietitians and the nonsense they talk regarding low carb and healthy fats man has ate since the beginning of time. Plus a few low carb antis that hang around on diabetes forums working full time and these days have lost the argument big time, they seem to be the only ones that fail to see they have lost the plot.
Malcolm's post is here.
Eddie
Monday, 17 November 2014
Low Carb Diet: Fat or Fiction? It's back again but for how long?
This is a great video for anyone considering a low carb lifestyle a must watch film which I hope stays available permanently. Eddie
Sunday, 16 November 2014
The impact of the modified Atkins diet on lipid profiles in adults with epilepsy
Abstract
Objectives
The modified Atkins diet (MAD) is a high fat, low carbohydrate ketogenic diet used to treat intractable seizures in children and adults. The long-term impact on fasting lipid profiles (FLPs) remains unknown. This study was designed to detect significant lipid changes in adults on MAD.
Methods
Patients were observed prospectively. A FLP was obtained in all patients at the first visit then serially. Patients were started on a 20 g per day net carbohydrate limit MAD. They were screened for risk for coronary heart disease and counseled to reduce saturated fats by a registered dietitian if deemed at risk. Patients that remained on MAD for 3 or more months with one or more follow-up FLP were included.
Results
Thirty-seven patients (14 male), mean age 33 years (SD 13, range 18–59) met study criteria. Median diet duration was 16 months (range 3–41). Total cholesterol and low-density lipoprotein (LDL) increased significantly over the first 3 months of MAD (P = 0.01 and 0.008, respectively), but were not significantly different from baseline after 1 year of treatment (P = 0.2 and P = 0.5, respectively). High-density lipoprotein levels trended upward in the first 3 months (P = 0.05) and triglycerides remained unchanged (P = 0.5). In 12 patients followed for 3 or more years, no cardiovascular or cerebrovascular events were reported.
Discussion
Although total cholesterol and LDL increased over the first 3 months of the MAD, these values normalized within a year of treatment, including in patients treated with MAD for more than 3 years.
http://www.maneyonline.com/
The initial rise in cholesterol happens to many starting out on a LC diet and in most cases levels do start to decrease with time.
I wish I could have seen the numbers that were advised to cut sat fat but the full text is behind a paywall. Shame about the abbreviation "MAD" I'm sure "MA" would have been enough.
Graham
Objectives
The modified Atkins diet (MAD) is a high fat, low carbohydrate ketogenic diet used to treat intractable seizures in children and adults. The long-term impact on fasting lipid profiles (FLPs) remains unknown. This study was designed to detect significant lipid changes in adults on MAD.
Methods
Patients were observed prospectively. A FLP was obtained in all patients at the first visit then serially. Patients were started on a 20 g per day net carbohydrate limit MAD. They were screened for risk for coronary heart disease and counseled to reduce saturated fats by a registered dietitian if deemed at risk. Patients that remained on MAD for 3 or more months with one or more follow-up FLP were included.
Results
Thirty-seven patients (14 male), mean age 33 years (SD 13, range 18–59) met study criteria. Median diet duration was 16 months (range 3–41). Total cholesterol and low-density lipoprotein (LDL) increased significantly over the first 3 months of MAD (P = 0.01 and 0.008, respectively), but were not significantly different from baseline after 1 year of treatment (P = 0.2 and P = 0.5, respectively). High-density lipoprotein levels trended upward in the first 3 months (P = 0.05) and triglycerides remained unchanged (P = 0.5). In 12 patients followed for 3 or more years, no cardiovascular or cerebrovascular events were reported.
Discussion
Although total cholesterol and LDL increased over the first 3 months of the MAD, these values normalized within a year of treatment, including in patients treated with MAD for more than 3 years.
http://www.maneyonline.com/
The initial rise in cholesterol happens to many starting out on a LC diet and in most cases levels do start to decrease with time.
I wish I could have seen the numbers that were advised to cut sat fat but the full text is behind a paywall. Shame about the abbreviation "MAD" I'm sure "MA" would have been enough.
Graham
I am a dead man walking !
I am a type two diabetic, diagnosed over six years ago. The only diabetes medication I have used from the start till the present day is two x 500mg Metformin. The truth is I am a dead man walking according to the majority of dietitians and medical professionals. Why? because I have been a low carber almost since I joined the club no one wants to join, the type two diabetes club.
Now, you are free to ignore my diet of death, you can follow the diet recommended by the NHS and DUK, but be aware, the recommended diet results in 93% of type one diabetics never getting to a safe HbA1c the NHS audited stats are also grim for type two diabetics. Always remember it's your limbs, kidneys and eyes, well worth saving I reckon.
According to the naysayers my diet is devoid of vital nutrients, it cannot be maintained, it will lead to a plethora of health care problems. So, let us have a look at my diet of death. The diet that maintains my BG at non diabetic levels, the diet I lost over 50 lbs in weight, the diet that improved my lipids and what I use to give me the best chance of avoiding diabetic complications.
Eat the colours of the rainbow with non starchy vegetables
The remainder of my food plate contains fresh meat
Or fish
The remainder of my food and the shortfall in lost calories from carb reduction comes from healthy fats
Small amounts of low carb fruits also feature in my daily food intake
For snacks nuts and seeds.
Eddie
How to make low carb gluten free pasta out of Zucchini/Courgettes
Photograph and text above taken from a fantastic website, to learn how to make this pasta substitute and to find more great food ideas, check out the 'cook eat paleo' site which can be found here.
Eddie
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the only dedicated to low carb control of diabetes and weight forum in the UK
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Primarily for type two diabetics newly diagnosed or long term non insulin users looking to gain better control of blood glucose numbers.
A new less controversial blog for all aspects of diabetes and the low carb lifestyle.
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Saturday, 15 November 2014
Tina Turner & Eros Ramazzotti - (Simply) The Best- Live Munich 1998
Tina Turner was a better live performer ever born? Any man that doesn't fancy her is either gay or dead I reckon. Eddie
John Lee Hooker - One Bourbon One Scotch One Beer
Saturday night again and it's music night on this blog. Our long time and often part-time member of our crew John has been a bit poorly of late, back to his usual top notch condition and this ones for him. John is a life long blues fan, hope you like it John. Eddie
Super Foods for Diabetics
As you can see, no bread, pasta, spuds, rice and processed foods, and certainly no pot noddles. Eddie
Friday, 14 November 2014
ABC’s Catalyst program under fire over pushing controversial low carbohydrate diet
EXPERTS have challenged the extreme low carbohydrate diet pushed on the ABCs Catalyst program warning it could be bad for bowel health and does not contain enough nutrients.
Dietician Rosemary Stanton who helped write the NHMRC national dietary guidelines says a lower carbohydrate diet is good if people cut out cakes, biscuits and sugary breakfast cereals.
These junk foods now make up 35 per cent of our diet, she said.
However, she says they should still eat the carbohydrates in wholegrains and fruit.
“I’m not saying the (low carbohydrate diet) will cause bowel cancer but there are plenty of studies showing diets high in wholegrains and fruit reduce the risk of bowel cancer and diabetes,” she said.
“You won’t get all the vitamins you need (on the low carbohydrate diet), you’d have to take supplements,” she said.
She’s also warned the extreme low carbohydrate diets featured on the program will leave you with constipation and bad breath that smells like acetone nail polish remover.
The controversy comes just months after the ABC pulled from its website an earlierCatalyst program which questioned the links between cholesterol and heart disease prompting thousands of Australians to stop taking statin medication.
The Catalyst program last night featured scientists who claim the food pyramid that underpins dietary guidelines should be inverted and instead of eating carbohydrates like bread, cereals and fruit we should eat more fat.
The current National Health and Medical Research Council dietary guidelines issued last year recommend 30 per cent of a health diets should be made up of carbohydrates like bread, wholegrains and legumes, a further 10 per cent of the diet should be made up of fruit and that fats should only be “used in small amounts”.
Diabetes Australia was criticised on the program for recommending a high carbohydrate, low fat diet.
A spokeswoman said the organisation was too busy today with World Diabetes Day events to respond to the charge.
Instead, it issued a statement urging Australians with diabetes to discuss individual diets with their healthcare team.
“The Australian Dietary Guidelines released in 2013 are a very good guide to healthy eating for the entire population,” the statement says.
“When it comes to people who are diagnosed with diabetes, or people who may be at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes because they already have impaired glucose tolerance, there is no diet that works for everyone.”
The Heart Foundation says its dietary guidelines were based on National Health and Medical research guidelines based on an analysis of around 55,000 new research publications that have appeared since the last version of the guidelines a decade ago.
“The Heart Foundation does not recommend a high carbohydrates/low fat diet or vice versa. We recommend maintaining a balance between fat (mostly unsaturated) and carbohydrate intakes,” Ms Mary Barry, National Heart Foundation of Australia, CEO said
“The Heart Foundation recommends that a heart healthy diet is one that is plant-based and includes a wide variety of fruit, vegetables, legumes and wholegrains. In addition, we make specific recommendations to include 2-3 serves of oily fish/week, nuts, avocadoes, olives and their oils, choose lean meats and dairy products.”
Sports medicine scientist Professor Tim Noakes pushes the case for the low carbohydrate diet on the Catalyst program with the startling claim that “humans have absolutely no requirement for carbohydrate, not one gram do we require”.
After telling endurance athletes for years to carbohydrate load before marathons he now says they should be fat loading instead.
Noakes tells the program the high carbohydrate diet recommended in dietary guidelines has contributed to the obesity epidemic in developed countries because it stimulates insulin a hormone that increases the body’s fat stores.
“What this diet (low carbohydrate) does is it’s high in fat and protein and that satiates your brain and reduces your hunger,” Noakes says.
Low carbohydrate advocate Dr Steve Phinney, the man behind the New Atkins Diet tells the program some people are carbohydrate intolerant.
Dr Phinney’s books recommend a ketogenic diet that contain just 10-50 grams of carbohydrate a day. Instead people are told to eat fats like avocado, nuts and olive oil and protein like chicken, beef, eggs, pork and turkey and copious amounts of non-starchy vegetables.
The program also features cricketer Shane Watson who says he battled with his weight untiMy Kitchen Rules chef Pete Evans, also a fan of low carbohydrate eating appears on the show.
Deakin University nutritionist Associate Professor Tim Crowe told the program the extreme low carbohydrate diet cuts out really good healthy foods like wholegrains and fruit “that we know reduce the long term risk of disease”.
Rosemary Stanton says there are no large, long term studies of the health effects of low carbohydrate diets.
These studies show this type of diet sets up good bacteria in the bowel and protect against heart disease, diabetes and cancer, she says.
In Japan, where traditionally they ate a high carbohydrate diet of rise, vegetables, fish and fruit there was a very low incidence of diabetes and bowel cancer until the population began eating a western diet, she said.
She warns the extreme low carbohydrate diet is hard to follow.
While it urges eating lots of butter, you can’t put it on bread or crackers or consume it in cakes and biscuits and you can’t eat your cheese with crackers.
The diets also ignore the evidence linking bacon and cured meats to cancer, she says.
Most of the studies involve small groups of less than 20 people and the longest study available follows people for just a single year.
“There are lots of long term studies of the results of diets including legumes and fruit and wholegrains,” she said.
The Heart Foundation (AUS) one of the critics has a vested interest in the food industry so hardly an impartial view from them.
A news.com.au investigation has found extensive links between the Heart Foundation and the food industry; links that involve corporate sponsorship, high-level staff moving between the two and the increasing comercialisation of the influential Healthy Heart Tick certification program.
Supports it even, to the tune of awarding its Healthy Heart Tick in recent years across an increasingly wide range of sugar filled foods, including burgers, pizzas, fruit bars and cereals.
Graham
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