You Couldn't Make This Up

Magnificent rant from Melanie

https://twitter.com/WeDietitians/status/1033169414034579456

I loved Richard Feinman's line on Walt allet

He may look like Wyatt Earp but he's no straight shooter

By our old friend Duane Mellor   and why diabetics like me don't take him seriously 

Dietitians like me don’t take the Pioppi Diet seriously

https://health.spectator.co.uk/dietitians-like-me-dont-take-the-pioppi-diet-seriously/

Doesn't do himself any favours by citing an article by Christopher Snowdon

Don't mean to be fat shaming but it looks like Duane has been overdoing those wholegrains  

Isn't that Giles "I'm not diabetic I just have glucose spikes" Yeo?

My lightbulb started sputtering and then died. I called it Duane Mellor. Really these people do themselves less and less favours as time passes. The true fad diet is the low fat one started a few decades ago, since when population health went to hell in a handbasket.

This was entertaining

https://varputavi.wordpress.com/2010/12/21/fat-is-not-the-problem-says-dr-walter-willett/

Since then Walt Wallet and Frank Hunilever were reminded where Harvard's money comes from and have backpedalled ever since.

https://twitter.com/TheNotDoc/status/1017991524779323393

meanwhile

https://twitter.com/jonnybowden/status/1015763024232132608

https://twitter.com/DiscoStew66/status/1023015991331045376

https://twitter.com/BrianLenzkes/status/1020396736051752961

We have been led away from what we once knew

chris c wrote:Isn't that Giles "I'm not diabetic I just have glucose spikes" Yeo?

Yes that's the one he appeared alongside Duane on the BBC programme Trust Me I'm a Doctor 

In this programme, Michael Mosley finds out how learning a new language can help stave off dementia. Giles Yeo goes vegan for a month to test whether it makes him healthier. Gabriel Weston asks whether you can get drunk on boozy food. Zoe Williams looks at what you can do to improve your health if you are living with heart disease. Alain Gregoire discovers how to protect your teeth from a hidden danger.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bjj24p

Trust Me I'm A Dietician . . .er, no

https://twitter.com/keto_live/status/1030721211305795584

busted!

https://twitter.com/DiscoStew66/status/1031161619978510337

And definitely don't trust this dietitian especially if your a diabetic 

I can't even be in the same room as a banana without my glucose spiking. Probably the same would happen if I was in the same room as Catherine Collins.

This is a bit interesting

The carnivore connection: dietary carbohydrate
in the evolution of NIDDM

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00399803

Jennie Brand Miller, back in the day before her brain was removed and replaced by money.

Hi Chris, If that is true, sapiens must have got the genes from Neanderthals, who had been out of Africa for 100,000s of years.
South Africans of African heritage seem to have problems with carbs, probably worse than former Europeans, which doesn't fit the theory.
This suggestion seems somewhat implausible to me.
From what I gather there have been many ice ages and interglacials in the last million years, very roughly it is 100,000 year cycle.
D.

It seems that the longer populations have had agriculture the fewer problems they have with carbs. Much the same for populations who have lost lactose intolerance over time. I suspect current policy is to eliminate individuals who have a high genetic propensity for insulin resistance, even if that is the majority of the population.

I also suspect the elephant in the room is not just grains, and especially wheat, but the huge overdose of omega 6 seed oils, which other high carb populations have not been subjected to until recently.

Yet another doctor comes on board

https://twitter.com/Alimacj/status/1039813726894022656

but on the other hand

https://twitter.com/ProfTimNoakes/status/1020963754023038977

https://twitter.com/kevinnbass/status/1021481882746281984

Catherine Collins it seems is not impressed by Tom Watson inappropriately reversing his diabetes and losing loads of weight by going low carb maybe it's because no dietitians were consulted   

https://twitter.com/RD_Catherine/status/1042319842521493504

To call that journo a fuckwit would be unfair to fuckwits. He sounds like a poorly disguised Snowdon or Angry Chef

Then there's this

https://twitter.com/SamirMadi01/status/1013686592853037056

chris c wrote:To call that journo a fuckwit would be unfair to fuckwits. He sounds like a poorly disguised Snowdon or Angry Chef

Then there's this

https://twitter.com/SamirMadi01/status/1013686592853037056

Talking of Snowdon Collins is scraping the bottom of the barrel by retweeting this 

https://twitter.com/cjsnowdon/status/1043950884189802496

And she reckons the PHE are experts

https://twitter.com/RD_Catherine/status/1043770590639935490

Then she's spouting here about the cult of low carb

https://www.foodmanufacture.co.uk/Article/2018/09/21/Low-carb-diet-warning-backed-by-nutritionists?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS

Desperate measures 

This is supposedly in defence of carbs, we know carbs aren't essential, fat and protein are but not in isolation from each other

The health benefits of eating carbs

Agans and colleagues designed an artificial intestine, or human gut simulator, whose main purpose was to simulate the environment found inside the human colon.

The researchers used fecal samples from donors to recreate this bacterial environment and added nutrients first from a balanced Western diet, and then from a no-carb, no-protein diet made exclusively of fats.

Then, they applied a range of cutting-edge technologies to examine and measure the composition of metabolites resulting from changing the nutrients

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/323171.php

The PDF is available

https://aem.asm.org/content/aem/early/2018/08/27/AEM.01525-18.full.pdf?ijkey=700xBJUmZoBYg&keytype=ref&siteid=asmjournals

No shit! Hahahahaha

Seriously the divide between science and dogma is widening (and so is the population) and the more people see through the bollocks and improve their health the more desperate they get. Aseem is under attack right left and centre now because of Tom Watson. SADly Corbyn has gone from vegetarian to vegan.

Meanwhile I don't know if this is a last blast from Jeremy Rhyming-Slang or if Matt Hancock is determined to outdo him

https://twitter.com/doctor_oxford/status/1043037013329424384

Yes I've seen all the vitriol aimed at Aseem they can't replicate his success with Tom Watson so they resort to personal remarks, a sign of desperation in a attempt to discredit low carb

Then there's this from a GP

We can’t base public health policy on one MP’s experience

http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/views/blogs/we-cant-base-public-health-policy-on-one-mps-experience/20037503.article

Meanwhile yet another low carb success

‘I shed seven stone and reversed my diabetes through a low carb diet’

Yvonne Lane has avoided needing to take medication to control her blood sugar levels – by following a similar diet to Labour's Tom Watson



Douglas Twenefour is not impressed

Douglas Twenefour, clinical adviser from the charity Diabetes UK, says: “When considering a low-carbohydrate diet as an option, people with diabetes should be made aware of possible side effects such as the risk of hypoglycaemia (low blood sugar). We also advise that people with diabetes discuss the amount of carbohydrate to be restricted with their healthcare team. “The best way to manage diabetes is by taking prescribed medications and by maintaining a healthy lifestyle that includes plenty of physical activity and a balanced diet that is low in saturated fat, salt and sugar and rich in fruit and vegetables, without completely cutting out any particular food groups.”

https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/people/low-carb-keto-diet-weight-loss-reverse-diabetes/

Evidence based my arse. Since well controlled diabetics are routinely excluded from studies there is no "evidence". Well except for Virta and a few other studies which are discounted for various reasons.

The ADA could have started studying the successful diabetics in their forum and by now could have nearly two decades of observation of thousands of subjects. But they didn't.

Here's the smirking ape Nunan and his chums

https://twitter.com/dnunan79/status/1037389383555592193

here's their article

http://sci-hub.tw/10.1136/bjsports-2018-099799

Remission of Human Type 2 Diabetes Requires
Decrease in Liver and Pancreas Fat Content but Is
Dependent upon Capacity for b Cell Recovery

http://sci-hub.tw/https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1550413118304467

Roy Taylor's latest opus.

I might have blinked and missed it but I don't think I saw a single reference to carbohydrate anywhere in this paper.

There's little doubt starving people on chemical shakes works but as has been pointed out a starvation ration of a high carb diet is actually low carb. With genuine low carb you don't need to starve to get the same result.

The government is behind this treatment despite the obvious cost to the NHS, would be interesting to see who has shares in the slime maunfacturer.

Another though, look at photos of Taylor and he appears to suffer from Vegan Neck. I can't remember who first pointed this syndrome out, on Twitter, but once seen you can't unsee it. This might explain why he steers clear of noticing or writing about carbs.

Meanwhile Cashin gets called a plonker 

Hahahaha I remember that Ivor Cummins quote.

Meanwhile

http://sci-hub.tw/10.1002/clc.23047

the main author has been done for clinical fraud and one of the others is vegan, and it's financed by Kelloggs aka the SDA

https://twitter.com/MacroFour/status/1046040589240799233

https://twitter.com/puddleg/status/1046132306325331968

Low-carbohydrate diets for overweight and obesity: a
systematic review of the systematic reviews

http://sci-hub.tw/10.1111/obr.12744

a new kid on the block

Low-density lipoproteins cause atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. 1. Evidence from genetic, epidemiologic, and clinical studies. A consensus statement from the European Atherosclerosis Society Consensus Panel

https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/article/38/32/2459/3745109

the Conflict Of Interest is the best part, plus one of the authors failed to declare he is vegan

this stuff will run and run

Wow I see what you mean about COI's 

Why bother will low carb when you can treat diabetes the pharmaceutical way with the DUK expert patient for NICE

Living with Type 2 Diabetes: Patient Commentary in Response to the Paper ‘SGLT2 Inhibitors in Type 2 Diabetes Management: Key Evidence and Implications for Clinical Practice’

https://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs13300-018-0494-1

So far so good, he hasn't needed any amputations or had his genitals eaten by bacteria, YET.

On the other hand none of us need to piss away the excess glucose because we no longer have any.

meanwhile

https://twitter.com/LizKershawDJ/status/1004972010873769984

https://twitter.com/DrDuaneRD/status/1014176846450188288

https://twitter.com/RD_Catherine/status/1031133288168148993

https://twitter.com/DietitianClaire/status/1036232867406401536

https://twitter.com/MikeCarrato/status/1036241569672843264

Meanwhile on another Twitter far far away

https://twitter.com/lowcarbGP/status/1016327506977284096

plus ongoing thousands more "just anecdotes"

Pity the BDA didn't do anything to improve his health previously. Or that of all the other obese, diabetic and otherwise metabolically challenged people that never used to exist in such numbers.