There’s drama on dietitian Twitter

I had one hell of a bun fight on twitter yesterday, with one of the most rabid anti low carbers I have ever come across, and by the cringe, I have known some. I thought I would check him out this morning and what do I find..............8.5K tweets and only five followers, and one just happens to be the legendary Cashin. Ya could not make it up  

Eddie wrote:I had one hell of a bun fight on twitter yesterday, with one of the most rabid anti low carbers I have ever come across, and by the cringe, I have known some. I thought I would check him out this morning and what do I find..............8.5K tweets and only five followers, and one just happens to be the legendary Cashin. Ya could not make it up  

 

Nothing new there then she's always been attracted to weirdos think Jopar, Phoenix et al

Look dietitian Duane Mellor pimping for Nestle 

Eddie wrote:I had one hell of a bun fight on twitter yesterday, with one of the most rabid anti low carbers I have ever come across, and by the cringe, I have known some. I thought I would check him out this morning and what do I find..............8.5K tweets and only five followers, and one just happens to be the legendary Cashin. Ya could not make it up  

Oh yes he writes a lot of balls.

chris c wrote:

Eddie wrote:I had one hell of a bun fight on twitter yesterday, with one of the most rabid anti low carbers I have ever come across, and by the cringe, I have known some. I thought I would check him out this morning and what do I find..............8.5K tweets and only five followers, and one just happens to be the legendary Cashin. Ya could not make it up  

Oh yes he writes a lot of balls.

On further investigation, I find my latest kick butt troll is not the full ticket, I have personal knowledge of autism, not his fault, but easy to see why Sister Scurvy is one of his five followers. But thems the breaks folks.

Autism? Oh that explains a lot, I thought he was just a divot.

Regulation of hepatic glucose
metabolism in health and disease

http://sci-hub.hk/10.1038/nrendo.2017.80

you don't necessarily need to follow all the pathways involved, just look at the diagrams and ask yourself why we would evolve such sophisticated mechanisms for manufacturing and controlling glucose if we were meant to overdose on the stuff from our diets.

"I guess all it takes to be a dietitian in this country is surviving the lobotomy"

Not one of mine but I suspect I shall steal it for future use.

This was interesting

http://www.cardiovascularbusiness.com/topics/lipid-metabolic/scientists-discover-new-form-diabetes-caused-gene-mutation

paper here

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-00895-9.pdf

This comes close to describing me, and others. One of my fellow sufferers has it mostly in females in her family, but in mine it mostly hits males, and others with a similar syndrome have it in both sexes (all genders?) The distribution is wrong for it to be a genuine monogenetic MODY but I suspect other gene variants may come to light once people stop believing the dogma that being fat causes diabetes, and eating fat makes you fat, or the newer dogma that eating meat causes diabetes (sigh)

Joanna Blythman made herself a bit unpopular with the Usual Suspects

http://www.businessinsider.com/nutrition-advice-wrong-2014-3?IR=T

Is this what happens to dietitians when they follow their own dietary advice 

They just don't improve

https://twitter.com/diabeteswarrior/status/937301562938060800

Obviously Duane Mellor is not impressed by this article by Dr Aseem Malhotra 

http://www.menshealth.co.uk/food-nutrition/the-fight-against-dietary-misinformation-continues

https://twitter.com/DrDuaneRD/status/952947283401805827

Mellor is an intelligent cretin. Clever enough to sound convincing to the easily convinced but as clueless as the rest.

Meanwhile Real Science is pulling together a lot of threads in the pattern of metabolic disaster and finding common pathways towards a whole bunch of seemingly disparate diseases, all of which have purely coincidentally increased since low fat diets based on manufactured foodlike substances have been touted.

Interesting to see one or two once-rabid low carb antis are gradually moderating their positions though.

chris c wrote:Mellor is an intelligent cretin. Clever enough to sound convincing to the easily convinced but as clueless as the rest.

Depends on how you define intelligence don't forget it was Mellor that stated Low Carb diets removed all sources carbohydrates, a dietitian that doesn't know the difference between low carb and no carb hardly inspires confidence in his profession

What I can state with confidence is that Mellor's association the BDA promote a diet for adults and children that has removed all sources of dairy, meat and fish

Meanwhile on twitter Carrie Ruxton RD 

https://twitter.com/DrCarrieRuxton/status/954363874865754112

Ruxton again 

That's different, because animals.

I get the impression some of them are starting to see through the bollocks they have been marketing but they are more concerned about their social status as "experts" than their patients' health.

Do you actually see any diabetics NOT being told to eat HCLF? Mostly they do this despite, not because of, their dieticians.

This surprised me

https://www.webmd.com/diet/ss/slideshow-ketogenic-diet

WebMD is the sort of site doctors are supposed to use. In fact back in the days of PCTs I heard of some doctors whose computers were locked to "approved" sites only, so this is bit of a game changer.

Oh some more

https://twitter.com/DiscoStew66/status/954277911174918144

https://twitter.com/bigfatsurprise/status/940442029145886720

https://twitter.com/foodtechhacker/status/948683260644638720

Shaun Baker seems to have gotten himself into trouble



https://twitter.com/tednaiman/status/912851551332450305

Had to laugh at Mellor waffling on the DiscoStew tweet could not come up with an answer to why according to the BDA it's ok to remove dairy for vegans but not on paleo, maybe there's ££££££ to be made out of veganism

Well most of the manufactured foodlike substances they tout are vegan. Coke, Kelloggs, Unilever, Nestle and of course sugar. What could possibly go wrong?

James Di Nicolantonio has been on a roll recently, and not a bread one.

This is simple enough that even a dietician could read it, but they won't

How calorie-focused thinking about obesity and related diseases
may mislead and harm public health. An alternative

https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/7203F27BFDE14B828C50F20548BCC49C/S1368980014002559a.pdf/how-calorie-focused-thinking-about-obesity-and-related-diseases-may-mislead-and-harm-public-health-an-alternative.pdf