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THE LOW CARB DIABETIC

Promoting a low carb high fat lifestyle for the safe control of diabetes. Eat whole fresh food, more drugs are not the answer.


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    Diabetes and diet: There's an epidemic of misinformation

    graham64
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    Post by graham64 Fri Aug 21 2015, 22:04

    As the NHS struggles with rising cases of diabetes, it is time to examine the role of diet and lifestyle in tackling this challenge. The so called benefits of medical interventions detracts from more beneficial lifestyle changes, says Dr Aseem Malhotra

    Early this year, Karen Thomson, the granddaughter of pioneering heart transplant surgeon Christiaan Barnard, organised world’s first low carb summit in South Africa and invited me as a speaker.

    The four day conference was co-hosted by leading professor of exercise and sports medicine Timothy Noakes, and there was no food industry or pharmaceutical industry funding.  There were a total of 15 international speakers including academic researchers and medical doctors and was an eloquent and evidence based demolition job of current dietary guidelines that promotes “low fat” as best for weight and health.

    Award winning author of Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health Gary Taubes opened the conference explaining that obesity is not so much a disease of energy imbalance but one of fat accumulation caused by excess insulin, driven primarily by carbohydrate consumption.

    Swedish family doctor Andreas Eenfeldt, who runs Diet Doctor, the country’s most popular health blog, discussed the beginning of a decline in the rate of obesity in Sweden where it is estimated that up to a quarter of the population are embracing low carb diet and the sales of butter have rocketed in the past few years.

    “You don’t get fat from eating fatty foods just as you don’t turn green from eating green vegetables,” he said in response to a two year review of 16,000 studies carried out by the Swedish Council on Health Technology.

    It concluded that such a diet may not only be the best for weight loss but also at reducing several markers of cardiovascular risk in the obese. And he’s right.

    Fat calories which have the least impact on insulin secretion promote satiation and energy utilisation whereas refined carbohydrates in particular promote fat storage and hunger.

    A public health message to lower cholesterol as if this was the end in itself may have also been counter-productive.

    More powerful than aspirin

    Not many people know that during the first 14 years of the Framingham heart study - a long term, ongoing cardiovascular study on residents of the town in Massachusetts - which sanctified high cholesterol as a major risk factor for heart disease for every 1mg/dl per year drop in cholesterol levels, there was a 14 per cent increase in cardiovascular death and an 11 per cent increase in mortality in the following 18 years in those aged over 50.

    Read on: http://www.hsj.co.uk/5089797.article#.VdeQCvlVikp
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    Post by Jan1 Fri Aug 21 2015, 22:10

    What a truly fantastic article Graham ... and the last paragraph says it all.

    " To reflect on the words of the late Mr Barnard: “I have saved the lives of 150 people through heart transplantations. If I had focused on preventative medicine earlier, I would have saved 150 million.”

    All the best Jan
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    Post by zand Sat Aug 22 2015, 06:45

    Someone showed me this link earlier, no wonder most diabetics have poor control.

    www.diabetes.org.uk/Guide-to-diabetes/Enjoy-food/Cooking-for-people-with-diabetes/Home-baking-and-diabetes1/

    They should entitle it "How to keep your blood glucose reading high..."
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    Post by Eddie Sat Aug 22 2015, 09:29

    Diabetes UK still sending diabetics to an early grave.

    With so many big pharma sponsors, DUK continue to push a high carb diet at diabetics, the more the carbs, the more the insulin, and drugs required to obtain safe blood glucose numbers. Trouble is, many diabetics following the DUK dietary information never get to a safe BG number. 93% of UK type one diabetics never get to a safe HbA1c (NHS audited stats) and an early grave awaits them. Fear not, DUK can help with your funeral, no doubt earning a commission on the side. As one of their sponsors Tesco likes to say "Every little bit helps" to keep the money rolling in.

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    Post by chris c Sat Aug 22 2015, 17:03

    Too good to be true!

    Aseem Malhotra is one of the good guys, no doubt about that. Somehow he gets a lot of media attention while speaking the truth.

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