A well intentioned idea no doubt BUT a sugar and carbohydrate load to sink you on a Sunday morning. About 26 teaspoons of sugar and 45 teaspoons of Carbohydrate for a start to the day!!!!

Belinda and Kate were walking in the Melbourne Botanical Gardens this morning. There was a sponsored walk of approximately 3km – with 5 eating stations along the way!

The walk was part of the Melbourne Wine & Food Festival and this mornings event was heavily sponsored by Diabetes Australia and the Victorian branch.

The menu served was as above and by calculations was a massive sugar and carbohydrate load that could be washed down with fruit juice and non alcoholic wine (loaded with sugar). There was a bottle of water for starters though.

For the kids that didn’t like the baked beans the staff were lathering on the jam at station 3!

The Diabetes Australia sponsor tent was set up with lots of recipes – recommendations for low fat yoghurt  with recommendations to add sugar to that base. How can they be getting it so wrong?

There were some good options on the list- avocados, eggs and maybe that fresh piece of fruit but the average diabetic would be reaching for their insulin halfway into that walk.

Last week the WHO recommended cutting sugar intake down to 6 teaspoons of sugar intake per day for adults. That daily intake was pretty well done just with the fruit juice today.

What might have been well intentioned is an abject failure. Unfortunately the community remain confused by messages like this. Maybe next year Diabetes Australia will get it right.

Tamiflu vaccine – the benefits were marginal and exaggerated and the side effects were ‘underestimated’.

Why does this not surprise me?

Last weeks episode of Catalyst looked at the introduction of the antiviral drug Tamiflu which has been stockpiled by governments around the world. Hundreds of millions of dollars has been spent on a drug that ‘Could be just as effective as aspirin’ for managing a worldwide flu epidemic.

And you think of Gary Fettke as being determined. Dr Rob Beaglehole is from Nelson in New Zealand and he is on the same mission as me.

I caught up with Rob in Auckland last year. He is a Dentist confronted with the result of sugary drinks in the mouths of children. He has raised the issue of soft drink abuse and dental disease to great levels in New Zealand.

He has at last report gotten the Nelson Hospital to remove soft drink from the hospital. Good health leadership in at least one hospital. A pity the hospital leadership in Tasmania is still way off track 🙁

http://tvnz.co.nz/sunday-news/one-man-s-mission-get-rid-our-sweet-tooth-6249593

“One of the most controversial papers – and one of the most exciting – presented at the recent low-carb, high-fat summit in Cape Town was on the metabolic model of cancer presented by Australian orthopaedic surgeon, Dr Gary Fettke. What does an orthopaedic surgeon know about oncology? Well, lots as it turns out.  Fettke, a  senior lecturer at the University of Tasmania, does ongoing research into the role of diet in diabetes, obesity and cancer. He is also a cancer survivor.” (from Marika Sboros in the Health Matters coverage of the Cape Town LCHF Health Summit February 2015) Continue reading →

It is time for a change to dietary guidelines. The combined opinion of the speakers at the First World Low Carb High Fat Health Summit agreed unanimously to support the following statement:

“The mainstream dietary advice that we are currently giving to the world has simply not worked. Instead it is the opinion of the speakers at this convention that this incorrect nutritional advice is the immediate cause of the global obesity and diabetes epidemics.

This advice has failed because it completely ignores the history of why and how human nutrition has developed over the past three million years. More importantly, it refuses to acknowledge the presence of insulin resistance (carbohydrate intolerance) as the single most prevalent biological state in modern humans.

Persons with insulin resistance are at an increased risk of developing a wide range of chronic medical conditions if they ingest a high carbohydrate diet for any length of time (decades).”

My further opinion is that the addition of high levels of polyunsaturated processed oils and the specific properties of fructose (still a carbohydrate) complicate the health issues further.

The speakers endorsing the statement were:

Dr Ann Childers (USA)

Christine Cronau (Australia)

Dr Robert Cywes (USA)

Dr Michael Eades (USA)

Dr Andreas Eenfeldt (Sweden)

Dr Gary Fettke (Australia)

Dr Jason Fung (Canada)

Dr Jeffry Gerber (USA)

Dr Zoe Harcombe (UK)

Dr Aseem Malhotra (UK)

Jimmy Moore (USA)

Professor Tim Noakes (South Africa)

Dr Stephen Phinney (USA)

Dr Eric Westman (USA)

Dr Jay Wortman (Canada)

I have an enormous respect for all of these people both professionally and from an integrity perspective. We have all been challenged for our stand on this issue but the science is there to support the above statement. It just needs to be acknowledged if we are seriously going to address our current public health issues.

My Cancer and Nutrition talk rocked the proverbial boat yesterday.

The Cape Town LCHF First World Summit is nothing short of amazing – I am teaching and learning in the same environment.

My official lectures finished yesterday and what followed was a flurry of activity. Questions from delegates from South Africa and around the world.

It has been fascinating to see so many medical professionals ready to listen and learn. Ready to listen to the science of LCHF with open minds. It does give me hope for the future, and Cape Town has been the catalyst. I am sorry to say that Australian doctors have a bit of catching up to do.

My lecture preceded the lunch break which is often the one where half the audience is asleep. I think I managed to keep everyone awake!

I proposed a new overview of cancer linking up the ‘Nutritional Model of Inflammation and Modern Disease’ with the little known ‘Metabolic Model of Cancer’.

I think we need to rethink our whole approach to cancer prevention and treatment and after the talk the feedback was incredibly positive. The ‘lunch’ break hour disappeared with the questions. Two national newspaper interviews and a television interview followed. Continue reading →

“What then do we wish to achieve with this LCHF summit? Simple. We wish to make a statement that will be heard around the world. That statement is this:

“The mainstream dietary advice that we are currently giving to the world has simply not worked. Instead, it is the opinion of the speakers at this summit that this incorrect nutritional advice is the immediate cause of the global obesity and diabetes epidemics. This advice has failed because it completely ignores the history of why and how human nutrition has developed over the past 3 million years.

“More importantly, it refuses to acknowledge the presence of insulin resistance (carbohydrate intolerance) as the single most prevalent biological state in modern humans. Persons with insulin resistance are at increased risk for developing a wide range of chronic medical conditions if they ingest a high carbohydrate diet for any length of time (decades).

Armed with this knowledge we have two choices. Either we can continue to ignore the evidence presented at this summit, and go on blaming the obese and diabetic for their sloth and gluttony (that is supposedly the sole cause of their obesity and diabetes). Or, if we are ever to reverse this epidemic that has become the greatest modern threat to human health, we need to admit that we have been wrong for the past 40 years, and must now change.”

Simple as that. All of the speakers are committed to education. Once you have the information it is up to you as what you want to do.

Read the rest of Tim Noakes’ statement http://www.biznews.com/lchf-health-summit/2015/02/18/banting-began-tim-noakes-history-hope-lchf-health-summit/