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“The most significant medical event since the first human heart transplant.”

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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.

http://go.lchfconvention.com/gary-fettke

Bollocks on Statin findings!

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

Recommend a health provider endorsing Lower Carbohydrate living

Lincoln_wallpapers_i want you off sugar smallI 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 →

Fructose is a weapon of mass destruction.

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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.”

http://www.thehbsn.org/article/view/5213/6886#B50

USA guidelines are only for USA people – DAA

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Dietitians Association of Australia (DAA) replies to my weekend post on the back flip done by the USA Dietitians 🙁

The DAA continue to state that the American guidelines are for Americans and not applicable here. Unfortunately we have the same metabolism and essentially the same processed food here.

The DAA continues to quote the 2013 Australian Dietary Guidelines (ADG) as being the go to document and quote the literature from there. I wonder if they noticed that the most of the literature quoted comes from the USA anyway.

Another thing which irks me is that they keep quoting that the ADG’s refers to 55000 articles. I don’t believe they actually went through those studies in detail for a number of reasons.

There are sections of the ADG that have been copy/pasted from the 2003 ADG. Take a look at the area on Saturated Fat for instance. There is very little review of current literature in that section. It’s almost as though they had written saturated fat off as being a health issue and left it at that.

If you work out how long it takes to read an article and then review it then you should allocate at least an hour to do it properly. That would take 1 person over 30 years to do if that’s all they did.

I realise that there was a panel of experts but the logistics of putting together a review of 55000 articles without skipping information is all too easy.

The Nutrition world is waking up to the problems of processed food. Unfortunately our Australian bureaucracies are still slumbering along.

Here is the weekend post.
http://www.nofructose.com/…/05/15/fat-and-salt-in-sugar-out/

https://www.nhmrc.gov.au/guidelines-publications/n55

Diabetes Expo 2016 – Melbourne this weekend. What the?

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How do you feel about deliberately putting your diabetes out of control?

Here are the food choices available for sale at Australia’s leading meeting for discussing Diabetes. I have capitalised the sugar and carbohydrate load.

If anyone goes along, let me know if they have at least put the carb and sugar load on the packaging. I suspect not.

“The Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre has developed a fantastic menu which meets Diabetes Victoria’s nutritional guidelines.

Home baked high fibre bran MUFFINS and FRUIT MUFFINS
House made LOW FAT YOGHURT AND MUESLI cups
Mixed FRUIT SALAD cups
TRAIL MIX
Fresh fruit take away boxes

Selection of SANDWICHES, BAGUETTES and WRAPS

Selection of SUSHI and rice paper rolls

Selection of fresh seasonal salads
Israeli COUS COUS, RAISINS, capsicum and pine nuts sous vide lamb
Grilled chicken, QUINOA, CORN KERNELS, roasted pumpkin and lemon dressing
Smoked ocean trout, POTATO, egg, spring onions and light olive oil dressing

Selection of CONFECTIONERY
SOFT DRINKS, JUICES, ICED TEA and water.”

I think they can do better than this.

There is a food revolution taking place in Diabetes management. LCHF – Low Carb and Healthy Fat eating and living is giving back control to people and families with Diabetes.

This has been debated at national meetings and if there was true leadership from Diabetes Australia, Victoria and Tasmania, then Low Carb food options should be made available to those wanting to practice LCHF. The people are leading the way on this one.

Need help with your diabetes? The team at www.DiabetesHealthCentre.com.au can give you that education and LCHF to get back control. It’s a real option.

http://www.diabetesvic.org.au/images/food%20options.pdf

https://www.facebook.com/393958287365295/photos/a.407869679307489.94446.393958287365295/836322196462233/?type=3

 

DAA not ready to look at current literature.

 

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Dietitians Association of Australia (DAA) replies to my weekend post on the back flip done by the USA Dietitians 🙁

The DAA continue to state that the American guidelines are for Americans and not applicable here. Unfortunately we have the same metabolism and essentially the same processed food here.

The DAA continues to quote the 2013 Australian Dietary Guidelines (ADG) as being the go to document and quote the literature from there. I wonder if they noticed that the most of the literature quoted comes from the USA anyway.

Another thing which irks me is that they keep quoting that the ADG’s refers to 55000 articles. I don’t believe they actually went through those studies in detail for a number of reasons.

There are sections of the ADG that have been copy/pasted from the 2003 ADG. Take a look at the area on Saturated Fat for instance. There is very little review of current literature in that section. It’s almost as though they had written saturated fat off as being a health issue and left it at that.

If you work out how long it takes to read an article and then review it then you should allocate at least an hour to do it properly. That would take 1 person over 30 years to do if that’s all they did.

I realise that there was a panel of experts but the logistics of putting together a review of 55000 articles without skipping information is all too easy.

The Nutrition world is waking up to the problems of processed food. Unfortunately our Australian bureaucracies are still slumbering along.

Here is the weekend post.
http://www.nofructose.com/…/05/15/fat-and-salt-in-sugar-out/

https://www.nhmrc.gov.au/guidelines-publications/n55

https://www.facebook.com/393958287365295/photos/a.407869679307489.94446.393958287365295/835465436547909/?type=3

Policy brief launched to curb global sugar consumption.

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The World Cancer Research Fund International recognizes that sugar is a leading contributor to cancer. They released their working paper on implementation options this week.

Cut sugar intake down.

http://www.wcrf.org/…/our-…/curbing-global-sugar-consumption

Sugar and Cancer
http://www.nofructose.com/?p=148

Fat and salt in. Sugar out.

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US Dietitians backing evidence. Fat and salt in. Sugar out.
It’s almost an endorsement for LCHF – Low Carb Healthy Fat.

This is a landmark announcement from the largest membership of dietitians and nutritionists in the USA. A complete turnaround in this statement representing a membership of more than 75000!

The is also noteworthy when you look at their corporate sponsorship which lists all the big players in the food industry. Continue reading →