Author Archives: Gary Fettke

Cystic Fibrosis under control for Jess

Jess Headlam
This has completed our Valentine’s Day.It has been one of life’s great moments to be part of Jess Headlam’s life journey.
Jess and her new husband Cameron came to our home one evening a couple of years ago and I spoke with them about changing everything in her diet in an effort to keep her alive.Jess has Cystic Fibrosis and was struggling and holding on to life at that time. She was not able to spend more than 6 weeks out of hospital and Cameron was more than a husband. He was in charge of giving her drugs and antibiotics on a full time basis, he was her cook, her nurse and her carer – it was what he had to do for his love of his life. Continue reading →

Food for Thought

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Just when I thought the day was crazy enough.

The Mercury Tasweekend has put up our story with a 4 page spread in the In Focus section.

‘Food for Thought’ tells my story and where we need to go as a community.

“We have found a significant key to a significant health issue and if don’t embrace it we are in strife.”

“It will be the turning point in diabetes management and we badly need one because the complications of diabetes are wrecking our society both economically and socially.”

I have to thank Gill Vowles for bringing this topic to the community and to Chris Kidd for not being too harsh with the photos of an ‘old codger’ 🙂

The online link will be up in a week apparently.

Low fat diets never did work

shutterstock_85239562How on Earth were low fat diets ‘forced’ onto the world in the 1970’s and 80’s?

There was just no proof. That was just one big wrong decision!

“Dietary recommendations were introduced in the US (1977) and in the UK (1983) to (1) reduce overall fat consumption to 30% of total energy intake and (2) reduce saturated fat consumption to 10% of total energy intake.

No randomised controlled trial (RCT) had tested government dietary fat recommendations before their introduction. Recommendations were made for 276 million people following secondary studies of 2467 males, which reported identical all-cause mortality. RCT evidence did not support the introduction of dietary fat guidelines.”

The world just got it wrong 🙁

The full article at http://openheart.bmj.com/content/2/1/e000196.full

Nutritional ketosis – running on your fat stores and healthy fat fuels

 

Nutritional ketosis - running on your fat stores and healthy fat fuels.I am in nutritional ketosis. Low levels of ketones in the bloodstream and a very low carbohydrate intake. There are more and more studies showing the benefits of this way of eating.There is a proven role for nutritional ketosis in health, weight loss, diabetes, cancer, epilepsy, dementia, Parkinson's disease, mental health, cardiovascular disease and autoimmune disease. The more I research the topic the more evidence I find.http://www.nofructose.com/introduction/carbohydrate/I am speaking to this topic in Cape Town next month at the First World Summit on LCHF.I have ketones and I am not afraid to use them!Thank you Kate Dowling for the inspiration for this quote. :)https://www.lowcarbhighfatexperts.com/home.html

 

I am in nutritional ketosis. Low levels of ketones in the bloodstream and a very low carbohydrate intake. Most of my body is running along very efficiently on ketones as a fuel source rather than glucose and carbohydrates. Only my and our red blood cells have to have glucose as a fuel source. It’s easier than you think.

There are more and more studies showing the benefits of this way of eating.

There is a proven role for nutritional ketosis in health, weight loss, diabetes, cancer, epilepsy, dementia, Parkinson’s disease, mental health, cardiovascular disease and autoimmune disease. The more I research the topic the more evidence I find. Continue reading →

Low Carb beats Low Fat Diets

Needing ‘proof’ to explain to people that eating a Low Carbohydrate way is better for you than Low Fat.

This has been studied over and over and consistently comes out with better results for weight loss. It is sustainable.

When you look at the cardiovascular risk factors, the most important Triglyceride levels tend to drop and the small dense LDL (bad cholesterol) particle numbers also drop. The good HDL numbers go up and there are generally no major changes in total cholesterol numbers. Those that follow this page know that I am not fussed by that cholesterol number. The other numbers are more important.

Cholesterol testing at http://www.nofructose.com/introduction/other-stuff/cholesterol-testing/

The review of 23 articles at
http://authoritynutrition.com/23-studies-on-low-carb-and-low-fat-diets/

http://www.nofructose.com/introduction/other-stuff/more-information/studies-on-low-carb-diets/