Can you believe the advertising by the sugar industry? This is what shaped our modern perception of sugar and fat. Fat was demonised and sugar was the perfect substitute for your health and waistline!
These images are from Big Sugar’s campaign of the 1970’s. We are still paying big time for this.
The 2015 Cape Town LCHF meeting is now available online and received the above accolade.
24 hours of the most informative lectures around the topic of Low Carbohydrate Healthy Fat living.
Here is the science and opinion laid out by a group of speakers that I highly respect – for their knowledge, their wisdom and for standing up for something we all believe in.
I was both a lecturer and a student at the meeting. It was an honour to be invited by Professor Tim Noakes to speak at the conference and will remain a highlight of my LCHF journey.
If you want the overview and the nitty gritty of LCHF in one package then this is it. Work your way through the series of lectures and it’s all there.
The organisers have decided to charge a fee for this series of lectures. Putting on the event was an expensive process (despite the speakers funding their own way) and any funds generated are being put towards holding the next events in London and then the USA. This is the way forward as no one wants funding from the food or pharmaceutical industry. We wish to stay independent.
By using this portal you can use my access and use the US$ 20 discount on offer.
Consider it an investment in your taking back control.
Is there any ‘real’ proof that an elevated cholesterol ’causes’ heart attacks? No.
So why do we keep getting told that ‘we’ have to take a statin drug to reduce the risk of having a cardiac event when addressing lifestyle and eating is significantly better at reducing that risk.
Then our news media gets hold of sensationalist headlines like “Catalyst program MAY contribute to up to 2900 heart attacks and strokes” – bollocks.
As a medical profession we have been told over and over again that cholesterol CAUSES cardiovascular disease and heart attacks and strokes. Well, it’s never been proven.
There is association evidence but it holds just as strongly for carbohydrates and high protein intake as it does for cholesterol, arguably stronger.
Why are we not hearing about that? Maybe we don’t need a drug to reduce our intake of sugar and carbohydrate. Maybe there is no money in telling us that (cynical note).
If you want to know the detailed history of the lipid cholesterol – heart disease THEORY / HYPOTHESIS / NOTION then get informed and read this paper from late last year that reviews the topic. It is one of the best I have read.
“The argument about the ‘diet-heart disease question’ has
left the scientific community exhausted and the public confused”
“the theory, inconsistencies, mistakes and alternate explanations become apparent and cast doubt on its (lipid heart hypothesis) validity”
“It is incorrect to assume that high total cholesterol has a causative role in Coronary Heart Disease. The possibility exists that it is a “marker” of other underlying abnormal metabolic or disease processes. “Risk marker” may have been a better choice than “risk factor”, representing the relationship more accurately without any unintended bias.”
“flawed design and flawed interpretation of dietary studies, and indicating only statistical probabilities”
2013’s Catalyst program questioning the Statin overuse in our community should be heralded for raising the question of our convenient overuse of drug prescription. It should not be ‘blamed’ for something that has not been proven.
Flaws, Fallacies and Facts: Reviewing the Early History of the Lipid and Diet/Heart Hypotheses
http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=50455#.VX3ohEZUxiY
Here are the Catalyst programs on You Tube after they have been pulled by the ABC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imJQinUiMcg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi6lPviezis
http://www.nofructose.com/introduction/cholesterol-testing/
https://theconversation.com/abcs-2013-catalyst-program-may-…
http://mobile.abc.net.au/…/patients-cut-back-on-sta…/6545026
I am looking to compile a list of the health practitioners recommending a Lower Carbohydrate dietary change for the health benefits.
Compiling a list (it will never be complete) of professionals endorsing or at least acknowledging that Lower Carbohydrate living is reasonable and appropriate will show governing bodies that what we are proposing is not dangerous, is not radical and is not a fad diet.
I am aware of many doctors, dietitians, dentists, pharmacists, chiropractors, physiotherapists, nurses and osteopaths recommending a change to a Lower Carbohydrate lifestyle. They are doing it themselves and recommending it to their patients. I mention these groups as they are all under the governance of AHPRA bar the dietitians who elected to work outside the Australian Health Practitioners Regulatory Authority, for reasons best known to their board. Continue reading
Dr Maryanne Demasi gets this reply from the DAA today in regards to Jen Elliott’s dismissal.
“It’s confidential”
The court is clearly closing its case on added sugars!
This review in the April edition of Hepatobiliary Surgery and Nutrition sums up the role of fructose with a range of conditions but particularly NAFLD – Non Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease. This is now a ‘normal’ finding on abdominal scanning and up to 8% of 10 year olds have it. It is a precursor to chronic liver disease – simple as that.
“The rapid rise in NAFLD prevalence supports the role of environmental factors.
Overconsumption of HFCS in the soft-drink is linked to the rise in the prevalence of obesity and associated with NAFLD.
Ingested carbohydrates are a major stimulus for hepatic De Novo Lipogenesis, and more likely to directly contribute to NAFLD than dietary fat intake.
Fructose phosphorylation in the liver consumes ATP, consequently the accumulated ADP serves as substrate for uric acid formation.
The lipogenic and proinflammatory effects of fructose appear to be due to transient ATP depletion.”
