Dr Malcolm Kendrick takes apart the criticism of the ABC Catalyst 2013 programme withdrawal.
By the end of the article you get a real sense of the corporate pharmaceutical control and manipulation of data.
Malcolm reveals emails and discussion regarding the statin controversy.
Dr Maryann Demasi will be relieved to see this article come out supporting her rigorous research into that show.
Recent articles show the increased risk of Diabetes and poorer Diabetic control with patients taking cholesterol lowering drugs.
I am not a fan of statin drugs until people seriously look at their diet. Dietary and lifestyle changes are significantly better at lowering cardiovascular disease risk factors. The trouble is this requires effort from the patient and effort from the doctor. Surprise, surprise – as a society we take the cop out path.
3 articles here look at the link and increased risk of those statin drugs on Diabetes.
Liew’s article from last week in ‘Diabetology and Metabolic Syndrome’ showed that statin users had HBA1c levels (a marker of Diabetes control) 29% higher than non-statin users.
If you were already Diabetic then you were also 20.8% more likely to have poorer control of your Diabetes if you were on a statin drug.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4003286/
Yoon in 2013 describes the same phenomenon as does Sampson in 2012.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4003286/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3341610/
Two of the articles state that is still better to be on a statin but did not really qualify that.
My concern is that the poorer blood glucose control directly comes back to insulin resistance and inflammation – and that worries me more than any cholesterol lowering drug.
My concerns about inflammation are addressed at http://www.nofructose.com/introduction/nutritional-model-of-modern-disease-2/
Trying to get weight control. Cut your portion size down. You will hear this all the time.
What is a portion size? It just makes everything harder to understand.
Simple rule – Make a fist with your own hand. That is the maximum amount of food that you should take in at a single meal.
One fist sized ‘portion’ of good quality food which is low in sugar and carbohydrate, preferably higher in fat, will keep you going for hours.
The dinner plate of the 1950’s was the size of an entrée plate today. We tend to fill up our plates at meal time otherwise it feels that we are missing out.
So make your plate smaller, cut down the food volume to a fist size and you will not be missing out.
That’s what I make of ‘Portion Size’.
More ‘tricks’ at http://www.nofructose.com/food-ideas/food-tricks/
Ronald McDonald Takes to Twitter – Gets Makeover
Selfies of Ronald McDonald.
What purpose can this have except to passively push junk food and poor eating habits onto the subconsciousness of our children.
The science is in!
This is the video for those who want to know the ‘why’ of modern disease.
This has been my major project for months now and a few weeks ago a big piece of the jigsaw puzzle came my way.
I can now describe the science of INFLAMMATION based on the current excessive consumption of the combination of Fructose, refined Carbohydrate and Polyunsaturated oils.
Up until now it has only been association evidence but the chemistry is there to back it up!
I have put together this talk for EVERYONE, not just for scientists. The message has to get out in a format that every interested person can understand. I think this is it.
Inflammation is at the heart of all disease and our modern diet is to blame.
Every modern disease is increasing in incidence with social and economic costs that are unsustainable. We are eating our way to this end point.
The ‘Nutritional Model of Modern Disease’ is the ONLY reasonable explanation for our current and impending world health disaster.
http://www.nofructose.com/
Is there a way to exploit the metabolic quirk of cancer?
Peter Attia has summarised a topic dear to my heart. It is how I have stumbled and tumbled down the No Fructose pathway.
Glucose is selectively taken up by many cancer cells. By starving these cells from glucose and insulin spikes in the bloodstream then it makes sense that it may be a path to managing and at least preventing cancer.
It is why I have drifted from a No Fructose diet to being into the very low carbohydrate and higher fat diet. I am ‘starving’ the troublesome cells in my body.
Do yourself a favour and read his blog but also enlarging the photo and reading this 1887 article in the New York Times.
“Dr Freunds theory is that the blood of patients suffering from cancer contains an abnormal quantity of sugar, and that cancerous growths may be destroyed by a reduction of the amount of sugar.”
We are reinventing the wheel and about time!
http://eatingacademy.com/nutrition/way-exploit-metabolic-quirk-cancer
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“Water sales increased 25.8%!”
Putting up a traffic labeling system and repositioning product in a hospital cafeteria changed consumer buying patterns to healthier options.
“The effectiveness of this system was most striking for beverage sales, with red beverages decreasing 16.5% and green beverages increasing 9.6%.”
The bonus occurred when water was made ‘more’ available with product placement. No advertising or price changes – just availability. Continue reading
This is personal from a young man of Panamanian origins.
“Dr. Pepper lines our refrigerator door like a vest of dynamite.
An arsenal of ways for us to self-detonate…
…they are colonizing our bodies, our taste buds.
It isn’t a coincidence that the military and beverage companies call us their target audience,
our black and brown bodies marching to the center of their crosshairs.
At home, a Coca-Cola commercial followed by a US ARMY commercial
flickers across my grandfather’s tooth
and they both shine like the discharge of a gun.”
The more I read the more I am convinced of the link between diet and cancer. A lot hinges around the role of insulin on stimulating factors involved in cellular division and metabolism.
A diet high in fructose and refined fibreless carbohydrate just keeps hammering away at the pancreas, giving us insulin spikes and a chronic stimulation of the system, ultimately responding in an insulin resistance.
This review article by Dr Elio Riboli notes the increased risk of late onset breast cancer, colon, rectum, endometrial, oesophageal and kidney cancers with obesity. He touches on the association between high sugar and carbohydrate load in the article.
I agree with him on the concept of where we were with the links of tobacco and disease were known for a long time but action took longer.
