Jimmy Moore 6 CarbSane nil !

A couple of photographs taken very recently of Jimmy Moore and his wife on his tour of Australia. I don’t know about you, Jimmy looks in good shape to me. He is clearly a very big man, and in my opinion he has a very big heart, that’s why people like him. What you see is what you get with Jimmy and he gives us the bad news as well as the good. He lost a brother not so long ago and his wife lost a baby they so much wanted. Jimmy is so open at times he breaks your heart. Jimmy is not perfect and nor are any of us, that’s what makes him real and respected.

A prolific blogger called Evelyn Kocur aka CarbSane runs a blog dedicated to stalking Jimmy. She takes great pleasure in chronically Jimmy’s fight a against excess weight. This to me smacks of jealousy and hypocrisy. She whines Jimmy makes money from his blog and work, while she has a PayPal donate button. Jimmy works ten times harder than her, and his work is his full-time job. What is he supposed to do, go on welfare so he can live ? One other thing, before the slippery Evelyn deactivated her ‘who is CarbSane’ button, together with a photo montage of herself, she seemed to be carrying more blubber than Moby Dick, go and figure that one out.

http://livinlavidalowcarb.com/blog/

Eddie

GPs ‘should tackle obesity in practice staff’

GPs would be required to reduce obesity in their staff, under proposals from a peer that have been backed by ministers.

Former president of the Royal Society of Medicine, Baroness Finlay of Llandaff, suggested all employers in the NHS should ensure their staff were good role models for patients.

During the debate in the House of Lords, health minister Earl Howe said Baroness Findlay had raised an important point and he wanted employers to tackle the issue.

Cross bencher Baroness Finlay said:  ‘Are the Government considering including in commissioning from health service employers a requirement to address obesity in their staff at all levels, given that the staff are often quite severely obese and act as a very poor role model for those patients whose obesity should be addressed?’

http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/20000901.article?sp_rid=MjI4MDQ1Mzg1NjUS1&sp_mid=40567218&spMailingID=40567218&spUserID=MjI4MDQ1Mzg1NjUS1&spJobID=167846433&spReportId=MTY3ODQ2NDMzS0#.UKvObIe40mt

Thank you for coming to this blog.

Thank you for coming to this blog. Some will know, we ran a very successful blog elsewhere, but we want to move on. We have thrown away the pea shooters and have now loaded up for bear. We want to see if we can kick up a stink and rattle a few cages within the NHS and DUK. OK I know it’s a tall order, and these two outfits will be a tougher nut to crack, than the likes of corrupt forums, idiotic moderators, and the pond life hanging out in anonymous blogs. But we are going to give it a go and will keep you informed. On thing is for sure, it will be exciting. There is nothing we like more than rocking the boat. If it’s legal we will try almost anything once. 

Over the next week or so we will be transferring posts from our old blog. The sort of post linked to information on saturated fats, cholesterol and statins, trial and studies etc we hope will be of use to old friends and new friends we hope to make. I will also have some news of other activities the ‘Eat To Your Meter’ crew are working on that I am sure will be of interest.

Eddie

Washington State to receive $2.2 million in diabetes drug settlement !

SEATTLE — Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna and 37 other attorneys general announced a $90 million settlement with GlaxoSmithKline LLC (GSK) to resolve allegations that the company illegally promoted its diabetes drug, Avandia.

“We believe that GlaxoSmithKline engaged in unfair and deceptive practices by misrepresenting the health risks of taking Avandia,” said McKenna. “Those who suffer from diabetes already face a higher risk of heart disease. GlaxoSmithKline did not warn such patients that their cholesterol, and their chances of having a heart attack, might go up after taking the drug.”

A portion of Washington state’s $2.2 million share of the settlement will be used to cover attorneys’ fees and costs associated with the investigation of GSK. The rest will be made available as grants to organizations set up to help those who suffer from diabetes.

Approved in 1999, Avandia was marketed as superior to some other diabetes drugs. But an advisory committee convened by the FDA in 2007 discovered that GSK failed to submit data to federal regulators showing that Avandia increases patients’ total cholesterol level, an especially dangerous side effect in diabetics. The FDA stopped GSK’s ongoing clinical trials for the drug and restricted its availability. It now only allows its use by patients unable to achieve good results with other drugs.

As part of the settlement, GlaxoSmithKline agrees to reform how it markets and promotes diabetes drugs. Under a Consent Judgment filed today in King County Superior Court, GSK may not:

• Make any false, misleading, or deceptive claims about any diabetes drug;
• Make comparative safety claims not supported by substantial evidence or substantial clinical experience;
• Present favorable information previously thought of as valid but rendered invalid by contrary and more credible recent information;
• Promote investigational drugs; or
• Misuse statistics or otherwise misrepresent the nature, applicability, or significance of clinical trials.

This is the second major settlement involving Avandia. In July, the drugmaker agreed to pay the states and the federal government a total of $2 billion in damages and civil penalties to compensate various healthcare programs, including Medicaid, for harm allegedly suffered as a result of its illegal marketing of the drug. It also paid a $1 billion criminal fine. Washington state’s share of that settlement was $8.7 million.

http://kpbj.com/business_daily/2012-11-19/washington_state_to_receive_22_million_in_diabetes_drug_settlement

Six-monthly HbA1c tests in diabetes 'unnecessary'

GPs do not need to test blood glucose in patients with stable diabetes every six months, as recommended by NICE, as it leads to a high rate of false positives an NHS report has concluded.

Annual monitoring would give more meaningful information on changes to HbA1c which for most people happen quite slowly, the NHS Diabetes report said.

Statistical modelling showed for patients whose HbA1c is currently 56mmol/mol, six-monthly monitoring would pick up 405 positive tests per 1,000 patients – that is HbAlc readings above 58.5 mmol/mol - but 28% of those would be due to measurement variation and not a real increase.

For the same group of patients annual monitoring would pick up 479 per 1,000 patients but with only 16% would be false positives, the University of Oxford researchers who did the analysis found.

In other groups with lower starting HbA1c readings most of the positive tests seen with six-monthly tests would be false positives, the report said.

For someone with a starting HbA1c, a positive test six months later has a 64% chance of being false compared with 31% after a year, the figures showed.

‘For many people with diabetes, six-monthly monitoring is more likely to yield a false-positive test – attributable to the within-measurement variability of HbA1c – than a true-positive test, attributable to the change over time in glycaemic control,’ the researchers concluded.

‘Annual monitoring gives more time for a meaningful change to occur in HbA1c.’

http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/20000846.article?sp_rid=mji4mdq1mzg1njus1&sp_mid=40536833&spmailingid=40536833&spuserid=mji4mdq1mzg1njus1&spjobid=167218515&spreportid=mty3mje4nte1s0#.UKzVxIe40mt

Fasting cholesterol tests 'not needed'

GPs do not need to ask patients to fast before taking a cholesterol test as it makes very little difference to the results, a large-scale study has suggested.

Canadian researchers found that mean levels of total cholesterol and HDL-cholesterol varied by less than 2% among individuals with fasting times of between one and 16 hours.

The researchers concluded fasting for routine lipid levels was ‘largely unnecessary’, contradicting best practice as recommended by NICE and the Joint British Societies.

Their study looked at the laboratory results of blood samples from 111,048 women and 98,132 men in the community and cross-referenced this with the duration they had fasted before the sample was taken.

The data was from a six-month period in 2011 and researchers controlled for the differing age of patients. They then estimated the mean levels of cholesterol subclasses recorded at different fasting times.

The mean levels of total cholesterol and HDL-cholesterol differed little among individuals with various fasting times, with variations of less than 2%.

http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/20000896.article?sp_rid=MjI4MDQ1Mzg1NjUS1&sp_mid=40557199&spMailingID=40557199&spUserID=MjI4MDQ1Mzg1NjUS1&spJobID=167558006&spReportId=MTY3NTU4MDA2S0#.UKzWdIe40mt

High fructose corn syrup linked to cardiovascular disease in children.

An investigation by scientists from the Medical College of Georgia (MCG) at Georgia Health Sciences University (GHSU) followed 559 children ages 14-18. The study subjects' dietary habits were measured; their blood analyzed and blood pressure, body fat and other health measurements taken. The researchers found a correlation between high-fructose diets and markers for heart and vascular disease such as higher blood pressure, fasting glucose, insulin resistance, levels of C - reactive protein, related to inflammation.

Teens whose diets included more HFCS also had lower levels of HDL cholesterol (the "good" cholesterol) and of the fat burning hormone adiponectin. In addition, study subjects who often consumed the industrial sweetener were more likely to have midsection fat, referred to as visceral adiposity, another known risk factor for cardiovascular disease and diabetes. More generalized fat distribution does not appear to have a link to HFCS or the other health risk factors.

http://www.naturalnews.com/034767_HFCS_cardiovascular_disease_children.html#ixzz1l1yTjUxz

Low fat high carb diet good for your health ?

Low fat began in 1977 when Senator George McGovern’s bi-partisan Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs – without scientific consensus - recommended a low fat diet for all Americans over age 2, including up to 11 servings of grain everyday. As Americans adopted the new dietary guidelines – restricting fat and eating more carbohydrates – we gained girth.

We set out on this slippery slope of ever expanding chronic disease – the high carb road to ruin - when we started replacing our traditional foods like butter and eggs with highly processed vegetable fats, refined grains, and cereals. Children are eating Pop Tarts and sugary cereals when they should be eating nutritious eggs scrambled or fried in butter.

“Don’t eat eggs and butter” is a catastrophic mistake. If you cut down on fat you’ve got to eat something and that something has been sugar, starch, and thousands of easily-digested “low fat” grain products, usually made with industrially rancid vegetable grease and high fructose corn syrup, now constituting up to 10 percent of American calories.

The proposed 2010 Dietary Guidelines – like the original low fat 1980 Dietary Guidelines - will only fuel chronic disease. Because 80 percent of diabetics die of heart disease, we are also facing an unprecedented surge in diseases of the heart - the number one Medicare expenditure; the number one cause of death.

Once we identify excess carbohydrates and the highly processed vegetable fats as the common denominators of chronic disease, we will then be able to cut carbs, fix our fats, and switch back to America’s traditional high fat diet. I want a real Happy Meal please - three eggs scrambled in butter!

http://www.dietheartpublishing.com/

Women Did Statins Cause Your Diabetes A Must Watch Video !

An uplifting lowcarb story !

I am a woman of 58, who has recently started to display the characteristics of 'metabolic syndrome'. I am so glad to have discovered the marvels of the Atkins diet (or low carb diet) and am sure that it has enabled me to side-step the inevitable progress that I would otherwise have made, through type 2 diabetes, to heart disease etc.

It has also caused me to reflect upon my family history, and particularly reflect upon my father's life, as a diabetic of 60+ years, self managing his own condition before the mantra of recommended diet of complex carbs, The management of diabetes is simply shocking. My father was a lifelong diabetic, and my brother and niece also and I'm sure I was on a fast track to type 2 diabetes, so it's a subject that interests me enormously. My father was diagnosed with diabetes as a young man, in the early 1940s. At the time, food groups were broken down, those he could eat freely (eg proteins) foods he could eat moderately (eg veggies) and foods he had to control tightly (eg high carbs). He didn't know those terms, his foods were divided into 3 groups, reds, blacks and greens. He learned by trial and error what a portion of any food equated to in carb terms.

I think it's why I don't have a 'sweet tooth', with a father and brother unable to eat any 'sweet' foods, I grew up in a household where there was no sugar in the house. His insulin requirement stayed the same throughout his life, going down a bit towards the end of his life as he started to eat less, he had no side effects of diabetes whatsoever, his vision was fine, his circulation was fine, and he lived into his late 80s. He was never part of any research programme, he went to the doctors as rarely as possible and never went to a diabetic clinic. And still, now they advocate all these carbs for diabetics, with organisations like the British Diabetic Association suppressing debate on the low carb alternative - it's just crazy.

I have 2 friends who have recently been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes (getting to that age) - I bought them both NANY - they've just gone on the medication, trying to lose weight low fat style, and bound to fail. It's so frustrating. While ever low carb is sidelined people will just get more and more ill with these 'modern diseases'. I'm totally convinced of it, it's why I get so frustrated.

I just thought that I would email you. I think that the work you are doing is exceptional.

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Gary Taubes book The Diet Delusion.

1. Dietary fat, whether saturated or not, is not a cause of obesity, heart disease or any other chronic disease.

2. The problem is refined carbs in diet, their effect on insulin secretion & the hormonal regulation of homeostasis.

3. Sugars - sucrose, high-fructose corn syrup specifically - are particularly harmful, the combination of fructose & glucose simultaneously elevates insulin levels & overload liver with carbs.

4. Through their direct effects on insulin & blood sugar, refined carbs, starches, sugars are the dietary cause of coronary heart disease & diabetes. They are likely dietary causes of cancer, Alzheimer's & other diseases.

5. Obesity is a disorder of excess fat accumulation, not overeating.

6. Consuming excess calories does not cause us to grow fatter.

7. Fattening & obesity are caused by an imbalance in the hormonal regulation of adipose tissue & fat metabolism. Fat synthesis & storage exceed the mobilization of fat from adipose tissue & its subsequent oxidation.

8. Insulin is the primary regulator of fat storage. When insulin levels fall, we release fat from fat tissue.

9. By stimulating insulin secretion, carbs make us fat.

10. By driving fat accumulation, carbs also increase hunger & decrease the amount of energy we expend in metabolism & physical activity.

Extract from the book The Diet Delusion page 454 by Gary Taubes ISBN-978-0-09-189141-1

Dr. Malcolm Kendrick M.D. looks at Cholesterol

As a Scotsman of a certain age, I have always found heart disease fascinating. This is possibly because of the fact that, in my youth, Scotland had the highest rate of death from heart disease (by which I mean coronary artery disease/ atherosclerosis) in the world.

When I went to medical school I was told that the very high rate of heart disease in Scotland was caused by a diet containing far too much saturated fat. This raised our Scottish cholesterol levels. The excess cholesterol was, in turn, deposited in the artery walls, thus narrowing them to the point where they blocked up - causing angina, heart attacks and death.

For years I did not question this orthodoxy. Then, one day, I was on holiday in France. Whilst chewing on a fatty steak, dripping in butter, it suddenly struck me that the French ate rather a lot of saturated fat. As I peered through the smoke filled restaurant I also recognised that they smoked quite a bit too. However, their rate of heart disease was one tenth that of Scotland (age and sex-matched).

I then looked at the other classic ‘risk factors' for heart disease in France e.g. blood pressure, HDL ‘good cholesterol' levels, body mass index (BMI), amount of exercise taken. I found that, in comparison to the Scots, the French ate significantly more saturated fat, had the same cholesterol levels, the same blood pressure and the same HDL ‘good cholesterol' levels. They also had the same average BMI and took slightly less exercise (on average). They smoked considerably more. In short, much worse classical ‘risk factors,' one tenth the rate of heart disease.

When I tell people that the higher their cholesterol level they longer they will live, they look at me in a way that suggests they believe that my medication is clearly not working.

Now that I know that cholesterol has nothing to do with heart disease, and that lowering it with statins is a complete waste of time, I find myself in the position of the little boy who points out that the Emperor has no Clothes. With one rather important difference.

Even though the ‘experts' have been made aware of it many times, they care not that this particular emperor has no clothes. Or, to be more accurate, they cannot and will not allow themselves to accept that it might be true. For to accept this would be far too humiliating for the great and the good. Which, I suppose, is why people become so enraged when anyone dares to point out the truth.

Some extracts from a must read article by Dr. Malcolm Kendrick.

http://www.spacedoc.com/malcolm_kendrick_cholesterol

Intensive Diabetes Therapy Protects Type 1 Diabetics' Kidneys, Study Shows

People with type 1 diabetes are at high risk of developing kidney disease, but no therapies are proven to prevent impaired kidney function in these patients.

Over an average of 22 years in DCCT/EDIC, intensive therapy was more effective at preserving long-term kidney function in study participants. A total of 24 participants assigned to intensive therapy and 46 assigned to conventional therapy developed impaired kidney function, meaning that intensive diabetes therapy reduced patients' risk by 50%. Of those with impaired kidney function, 8 assigned to intensive therapy and 16 assigned to conventional therapy developed kidney failure.

"This study demonstrates that impaired kidney function can be prevented in type 1 diabetes and reinforces the importance of maintaining good glucose control early in the course of type 1 diabetes to prevent long-term kidney complications," said Dr. de Boer.


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/11/111112145357.htm

Low carbohydrate diets for diabetes control. Katharine Morrison, Principal GP

Despite the growing incidence of type 1 and 2 diabetes and the accelerating cost of the resources needed to monitor and treat these patients, we are obviously not succeeding in reducing either the number of people affected or the severity of the complications of these conditions.

Yet there is a simple, effective, low-cost strategy that is proven to work with diabetes: reduce the amount of sugar and starch in the diet.

The lower the carbohydrate consumed the less insulin is needed for type 1 diabetics and the less hard the pancreas has to work for type 2 diabetics. For example, insulin dependent diabetics can expect to half or third their insulin requirements. Less insulin injected results in more predictable blood sugars and less hypoglycaemia.

How long can we as a profession afford to keep our heads in the sand regarding the benefits of low carb diets for diabetics?

The words of Dr. Katharine Morrison

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1570767/

Eddie

Cholesterol and Heart Disease. Dr Malcolm Kendrick

We are constantly told high cholesterol levels will lead to heart disease, is this true ?

This video lasts 1 minute 17 seconds, you may find the information very surprising !


Eddie

Dr.Jay Wortman another ex-Engineer.

In a former working life, Jay was an engineer. Dr Richard Bernstein was an engineer. Bob Krause was an engineer too. Is this just a coincidence? Perhaps not. This is purely anecdotal, but I have found that many of the most creative-thinkers in the area of health and nutrition have a background in engineering.

One of the sharpest minds in the blogosphere is Dr. Michael R. Eades. I’m sure you’re aware of his site, and would agree with him on most things regarding diet and health. He, too, began his career as an engineer.

Engineers must weigh different design choices on their merits and choose the solution that best matches the requirements. Their crucial and unique task is to identify, understand, and interpret the constraints on a design in order to produce a successful result. In other words, they make things work. Well the Doctors certainly make things work when it comes to the control of weight and diabetes.

Jay is not only a medical Doctor he is also a type two diabetic. He controls his diabetes with a lowcarb diet, exercise and no meds. Jay is fortunate to be on first name terms, with some of the people on the cutting edge of lowcarb research. Jay is far more knowledgeable than most Doctors regarding the lowcarb lifestyle, he knows it works, full stop. He is totally convinced it is the way to go, for diabetes and weight control. He also knows lowcarbing is 100% safe. How do I know that ? Because his wife and children are lowcarbers. Would a man with access to information many lay people never see, encourage his family to lowcarb, when he had the slightest doubt regarding long term safety, not in a million years.

Check out Jays blog here http://www.drjaywortman.com/blog/wordpress/


Eddie

New method to test blood sugar

Children with type 1 diabetes in Oxfordshire are to be the first patients in England to have their blood sugar levels tested using their breath.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-15605323

Petition to make test strips available to all diabetics on the NHS

　
I don't know if you've seen this http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/20537 Petition to make test strips available on NHS! All diabetics need to test to maintain good control. Please sign the petition.

Ray

The Cause of Obesity

Professor Robert H. Lustig, MD, is an expert on obesity.

By Donald Miller

When I was the director of the heart institute at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle in the 1990s I looked into establishing a Dean Ornish Program for Reversing Heart Disease at Swedish. The Ornish Program limits fat intake to less than 10 percent of calories in the diet, with, as one study shows, only 1 percent saturated fat. I had a cardiologist at Swedish accompany me to New York to visit the leading Dean Ornish Program there. We came back and recommended that Swedish establish one in Seattle.I was wrong.

Several years later, after leaving Swedish and rejoining the faculty the University of Washington, I came upon an article by Dr. Mary Enig and Sally Fallon titled “The Oiling of America” that was published in the magazine Nexus in 1999. It stimulated me to look more carefully into this subject."

"Evidence against fat wilts upon close scrutiny. In his Six Country Study, Ancel Keys ignored data available from 16 other countries that did not fall in line with his desired graph. If he had chosen these six other countries [on the left side], or even more strikingly, these six countries [on the bottom right] he could have shown that increasing the percent of calories from fat in the diet reduces the number of deaths from coronary heart disease."

"Then, in 1992, in the Archives of Internal Medicine, the third director of the study, Dr. William Castelli, reported: “In Framingham, Mass., the more saturated fat one ate, the more cholesterol one ate, the more calories one ate, the lower the person’s serum cholesterol” [emphasis in original]… We found that the people who ate the most cholesterol, ate the most saturated fat, ate the most calories, weighed the least, and were the most physically active.” (Arch Int Med 1992;152:1271-2)

Most doctors have not heard about these findings because medical organizations, notably the American Heart Association, government agencies, and the pharmaceutical industry have ignored them. After all, prescribing statin drugs to lower cholesterol is a $25 billion/year industry."

A long read but well worth reading and keeping !

Donald Miller is a cardiac surgeon and Professor of Surgery at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle.

http://healthimpactnews.com/2011/enjoy-saturated-fats-they%e2%80%99re-good-for-you/

Dietary fat and Women

One of the biggest reasons, a low carb diet is not promoted by most Healthcare Professionals is dietary fat. On forums, websites and in the media, fat is demonised 24/7. Pick up a news paper and there’s a very fair chance an article will shout out at you “ Cut back on the fat if you don’t want a heart attack” turn on the TV, and the morning news will be running an article on obesity, and of course “It’s the fat that’s making people err, fat” Check out ceefax and it’s the same. Dietary saturated fat will kill you, and the obesity it brings about, will require eight muscle bound weight lifters, to carry your coffin to an early grave !

In short, the media and most of our HCP’s does its best to convince us, eating too much fat is about as dangerous as playing Russian roulette, or developing a crack cocaine habit. Personally, I’ve got nothing against a massive heart attack. Think about it, a few minutes of agonising pain, then the lights go out, and its goodnight Vienna. I would much rather settle for that, than run high BG numbers for years and slowly go blind, or sit around on a commode, watching my feet turn into twenty pounds of condemned corned beef, but I appreciate, it’s very a personal issue.

So, by definition, if eating to much saturated fat is bad, and will bring about a heart attack, eating less must be good eh. Unfortunately no, as it turns out.

A Randomized controlled trial of 48,835 postmenopausal women, aged 50 to 79 years, of diverse backgrounds and ethnicities, who participated in the Women's Health Initiative Dietary Modification Trial, mean follow-up in this analysis was 8.1 years. The objective of the trial, was to see if a cut back on dietary fat, would improve health, and reduce the risk of cardio vascular disease or stroke, it did not !


Eddie

http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=202339

　

Ketosis and why lowcarbing works.

Ketosis occurs when your intake of carbs drops below the point where there is enough glucose coming in to fuel your brain. Your brain cannot burn fuels other than glucose or ketones. When your carb intake drops below that point your liver starts to make ketones from fat. Your brain can get 75% of its energy from ketones. The remaining 25% can come from glucose which is also produced in the liver (from protein). The muscles will burn fat or ketones. There are actually very few tissues that must have glucose. These include the renal cortex, red blood cells and lens of the eye. All their needs can be supplied by the liver. This is why there is actually a zero requirement for dietary carbohydrates. Most people need to get below 100 gm of carbs per day to achieve ketosis. For people with severe insulin resistance, the carbs would need to be much lower to achieve normal blood sugars and to get off the meds. I avoid meds by eating less than 50 gms and usually well below that.

Unlike low fat diets, low-carb is very effective at burning off the fat around the middle. Properly done it will also spare muscle loss and may even cause muscle growth along with fat loss. For type 2 diabetics, I recommend the most recent Atkins book which was authored by three scientists who do research on ketogenic diets (Westman, Phinney and Volek). I get the best results by staying on the induction phase of the diet indefinitely. I have done this for over 8 years. I asked the authors why they didn't recommend this in the book. They said that they actually had written a chapter on this but that the publisher removed it for fear it might confuse people. Phinney and Volek have recently written a guide for physicians on how to properly administer a low-carb diet. It will be published as an e-book and will be available soon via Amazon.

The words of Dr. Jay Wortman. Type two diabetic and lowcarb expert.

Carbohydrates not essential !

"There are three kinds of foods--fats, proteins, and carbohydrates. All of these provide calories. But the carbohydrates provide calories and nothing else. They have none of the essential elements to build up or to repair the tissues of the body. A man, given carbohydrates alone, however liberally, would starve to death on calories. The body must have proteins and animal fats. It has no need for carbohydrates, and, given the two essential foodstuffs, it can get all the calories it needs from them."Sir Heneage Ogilvie, former vice president of the Royal College of Surgeons, England.

The earliest and primary proponent of an all animal-based diet was Vilhjalmur Stefansson, a Canadian explorer who lived with the Inuit for some time, and who witnessed their diet as essentially consisting of meat and fish, with very few carbohydrates - berries during the summer. Stefansson and a friend later volunteered for a one year experiment at Bellevue Hospital in New York to prove he could thrive on a diet of nothing but meat, meat fat and internal organs of animals.

His progress was closely monitored and experiments were done on his health throughout the year. At the end of the year, he did not show any symptoms of ill health; he did not develop scurvy , which many scientists had expected to manifest itself only a few months into the diet due to the lack of vitamin C in muscle meat. However, Stefansson and his partner did not eat just muscle meat - they ate fat, raw brain, raw liver (a significant source of vitamin C and others), and other varieties of offal. The no-carbohydrate and low carb diet often reverses type two diabetes.

We do not advocate a no carb diet, although this has been proved to be safe, it would be a very boring way to live. Some of us think of our way of life as being meat eating vegetarians. No, we are not trying to wind up vegetarians, but we base our food on fresh vegetables, then add high quality protein, then good fats. If you are consuming around 30-50 carbs per day, all from non starchy vegetables, you have a very large range to chose from. By eating the colours of the rainbow, and eating small portions, of many different types, you can get all the nutrients you need to stay healthy.

Saturated Fat does not cause Heart Disease !

For decades we have been brainwashed into believing saturated fat causes heart disease. So many people believe this a fact. This is arguably, the most ludicrous piece of dietary information and biggest scam ever hoisted on the medical profession and general public.

A meta-analysis published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, pooled together data from 21 unique studies that included almost 350,000 people, about 11,000 of whom developed cardiovascular disease (CVD), tracked for an average of 14 years, and concluded that there is no relationship between the intake of saturated fat and the incidence of heart disease or stroke.

Conclusions: A meta-analysis of prospective epidemiologic studies showed that there is no significant evidence for concluding that dietary saturated fat is associated with an increased risk of CHD or CVD. More data are needed to elucidate whether CVD risks are likely to be influenced by the specific nutrients used to replace saturated fat.

http://www.ajcn.org/content/early/2010/01/13/ajcn.2009.27725.abstract

Dr.Jay Wortman on reversing type two diabetes.

Dr.Jay Wortman on reversing type two diabetes, a must watch !

Don't fear salt !

Most straight thinking people realise pretty quickly the standard dietary advice for diabetics from most healthcare professionals is wrong very wrong. They realise the carbs have got to go big time. Next the question comes up what about the fats. Everywhere you look it’s low fat this and low fat that. Every food advert almost every packaged food shouts low fat. Low fat factory and prepared food is cheaper to make and if people believe it’s more healthy they will pay more money. It’s a real winner for the food manufacturers. Cheaper to make and premium price leads to bigger profit margins. Again the straight thinking person soon realises there are good fats and bad fats. The straight thinker soon learns the right fats are essential to good health. Next question to address is salt.

For most type two diabetics high blood pressure is part of the diabetes deal. And the standard advice from the medics is drop the salt. Salt they tell us is will do our blood pressure no good at all. Excessive levels of salt does no-one any good, very much like insulin levels, but as with insulin, to low a level leads to serious problems. If you start a low carb diet and prepare all you own food and avoid added salt, you may be going to low on salt. Think about it, many of us were eating ready meals and factory made foods before low carbing and many of these foods have a very high salt content. We have quickly gone from a high salt diet to a possibly very low salt diet.

Some words from Dr.Jay Wortman a lowcarb expert and type two diabetic on lowcarb and salt.

“When you cut the carbs your kidneys will release sodium. This is why people lose some water initially and why blood pressure also tends to get better on low-carb. If you are not careful to replace the lost sodium sufficiently by adding salt to your food, you will experience the effects of mild hypo-natremia. These are: headache, constipation, weakness, fatigue, low-blood pressure, othostatic hypotension and possibly leg cramps. If you get a blood test you may find that your potassium is low, too. Unfortunately, there is no reliable blood test for magnesium but it may also be low.

Supplementing with salt should correct these problems. You don't need to take a potassium supplement, it will correct if you eat enough salt. Some people will have a persistent magnesium deficiency that will require supplements. This would be manifested by leg cramps and hyper-reflexia (something your doctor can check). To correct this you should take a slow-release Mg++ supplement daily. Many people make the mistake of restricting salt and drinking lots of water when on a low carb diet. This is virtually guaranteed to cause problems. When you look carefully at the studies that report equivocal results with a low-carb diet, this is invariably one of the reasons.”


Eddie