‘Natural’ deception from the Sugar Industry

Low GI Sugar and marketing to ‘naturally’ confuse you 🙁

This post follows on from last night’s expose on ‘The Sugar Conspiracy on SBS. You can watch it on http://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/511635011977/The-Sugar-Conspiracy

CSR (Big Sugar) have their ‘new’ sugar onto the market and they are trying to tell us how much better it is for ‘you’ because it has a lower Glycaemic Index (GI). It’s still sugar, and sugar is sugar.

As far as I can work out, they just have not refined it as much. The less refined material is now being touted as being good for you. Its all nonsense in a way to rebrand sugar for it’s benefits. What a load of codswallop.

This is a first from the sugar industry!
“One of the most important factors identified in the development of obesity is high intake of energy-dense, micronutrient-poor over processed foods including white refined sugar (Swinburn, Caterson, Seidell, & James, 2004).” Continue reading →

CSIRO backs Low Carbohydrate management of Diabetes.

That’s it for the naysayers.

50 grams per day. That’s very low carb and with great results.

This was fun yesterday at our “Choose Health” forum in Launceston yesterday.

Oli Darrow and I got to chat in front of ~250 enthusiastic participants at the Tailrace Centre.

Oli is 14 and has Type 1 Diabetes. He has been poorly controlled for some years until adopting a very low carbohydrate diet and it has turned everything around for him. He is not perfect (neither was I at 14) but his blood glucose control has meant an improvement in mood, concentration, school and sport.

It’s probably good to skip breakfast!

(for adults, but follow with a good lunch)

This is the hot topic following this weeks release of an article in the flagship American Journal of Nutrition. The Editorial backs it up as well and it will not please the breakfast cereal industry.

I have been a longstanding breakfaster and ‘fuel’ up for the day, but generally have a small lunch and then ‘meat and veg’ for dinner. Belinda, however, has been a ‘break faster’. Subtle difference but she has fuel when she wants to and often not until the traditional lunchtime.

As a society we are eating too much and as a result too many calories and not good quality ones.

The study showed that in 2132 people that the non breakfast people that broke their fast later consumed less calories overall on those days. The conclusions being drawn are that can have far reaching benefits for weight control without loss of nutrient value. Continue reading →

SBS have this on Monday night – 7.35 pm. I will be watching it.

“For his part, Latta is a changed man and realises his diet was far more sugar-coated than he realised.

Continue reading →

How much should we trust the drug trials of the past?

Not too much according to Dr Malcolm Kendrick.

http://drmalcolmkendrick.org/2015/08/27/the-augean-stables/

Order out of chaos – Choose Health

On looking back I have being creating order out of chaos for a long time.

My ‘down time’ is sometimes to play those card games like Spider Solitaire, Free Cell, Mahjong and the like.

My mother taught me how to play a variety of Solitaire games as a child. I did a lot of jigsaw puzzles. It is still our go to family ‘thing to do’ when someone is ill.

Learning and researching our whole nutrition ‘science’ has been a jigsaw puzzle for me. I don’t have it finished by a long way yet but the big picture is emerging – the combination of fructose, refined carbohydrates and polyunsaturated oils, in the amount and frequency we consume them in society is the root cause of inflammation and then modern disease. Continue reading →