This review looks at why 50 odd articles on low carb high fat benefits never made it to guideline reviews?
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Why would you combine butter with margarine? $$$$ of course!
Are you confused at the margarine and butter section of the supermarket?
I thought the whole idea of margarine was to avoid butter – Heart Foundation nonsense etc.
Is there a health benefit or health risk by combining butter and margarine?
It has to be one or the other.
Unilever Flora must be desperate. How do we get market share back when sales of margarine are declining? Let’s add butter to margarine. Let’s add olive oil to margarine. Now let’s market it.
Deprescribing may just be the answer
“We spend an awful lot of money and effort trying to figure out when to start medications and shockingly little on when to stop.”
Polypharmacy. How many people take too many drugs? Too many. And the drug interactions have potential disastrous effects.
I am a great believer in deprescribing – coming off medication in a controlled fashion with an engaged doctor. It’s worth considering.
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So many patients I see have no idea why they are on some medication. Good nutrition can result in less medication, particularly in the areas of diabetes, arthritis, high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease.
“A recent study in JAMA Internal Medicine, however, found that more than 42 percent of adults didn’t tell their primary care doctors about their most commonly used complementary and alternative medicines, including a quarter of those who relied most on herbs and supplements.
Usually, that was because the physicians didn’t ask and the patients didn’t think they needed to know; in a few cases, doctors had previously discouraged alternative therapies, or patients thought they would.”
“The researchers, analyzing the drugs and supplements taken, calculated that more than 8 percent of older adults in 2005 and 2006 were at risk for a major drug interaction. Five years later, the proportion exceeded 15 percent.”
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A whole school goes LCHF!
What happens if you give an entire school better nutrition, specifically cutting back on the sugar and empty carbs? They get leaner and healthier!
No surprises here and no surprise that we look east to New Zealand and good friends Prof Grant Schofield and Dr Caryn Zinn behind the health advice to an entire boarding school.
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Puts it all in a sentence.
Health decisions. Who makes them?
What choices do you have when it comes to health decisions for your child?
Who gets to make those decisions? Where do your rights as a parent start and finish?
Who decides what treatment your child gets if they have cancer? Or another health issue.
This is the recent story of Oshin Kiszko from WA around enforcing chemotherapy on a child. It asks more questions than gives answers! It is thought provoking.
I find the same issues for patients when they decide to help their cancer management by eating well and getting into nutritional ketosis. I know of parents and patients ‘hiding’ their nutritional management from the doctors for fear of retribution. No kidding!
Eating in Olde England
Shakespearian eating guidelines. What were the food recommendations a few hundred years ago?
Fruit was seasonal but imported dried fruits were around. Bacon for the poor, chicken for the wealthier and pasture fed beef was noted to be better.
Fruit was seasonal but imported dried fruits were around. Bacon for the poor, chicken for the wealthier and pasture fed beef was noted to be better.
Pin up girl turns 90!
Here’s my LCHF pin up girl. 90 today!
You don’t have to be a royalist to admire the Queen. She is one switched on, intelligent, alert and dynamic woman.
Last year we found out her eating lifestyle ‘secret’. Fresh, local and seasonal eating and avoiding ‘white’ food – flour and sugar.
Fast food :(
I am finding little reason to eat fast food. This latest research is showing elevated potentially harmful chemical levels related to the processing of fast food.
My ‘go to’ take away food is a roast chicken. It’s hard to get that one too wrong.
“Specifically, the team found that people who eat fast food tend to have significantly higher levels of certain phthalates, which are commonly used in consumer products such as soap and makeup to make them less brittle but have been l…inked to a number of adverse health outcomes, including higher rates of infertility, especially among males.
The danger, the researchers believe, isn’t necessarily a result of the food itself, but rather the process by which the food is prepared.”
The article at http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/…/advp…/2016/4/ehp.1510803.acco.pdf
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24534276
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