Open Future Health
Author John Veitch

Each choice builds the health you will experience in the future.

Category: Coronary Heart Disease

  • Five Kilometers Under Sixty Minutes.

    Five Kilometers Under Sixty Minutes.

    To walk five kilometres in sixty minutes is a worthwhile and achievable goal for almost everyone. But if that seems a long way off today, the important thing is to START, working towards that objective. The graph above from the Dunedin Study shows that at age 38, people tended to be older than their biological…

  • This is your Life; Your Choice

    This is your Life; Your Choice

    In a long life many things can happen, but seldom is it the case that events, or plain bad luck make a substantial difference to how one’s life turns out. In Open Future Health, we argue that too many people lose 10 or 15 years of healthy life because they make poor lifestyle choices. Good…

  • Horray for Parkrun

    Horray for Parkrun

    Parkrun is now available in 22 countries worldwide. Started in the UK 20 years ago, it’s become a wonderful opportunity for families, for the socially isolated, for the fit and the unfit, for many volunteers and supporters to share an hour on Saturday morning. A global charity, parkrun’s mission is to improve health and wellbeing,…

  • American Diabetes Association

    American Diabetes Association

    “An ADA 2019 consensus report concluded: ‘reducing overall carbohydrate intake for individuals with diabetes has demonstrated the most evidence for improving glycemia and may be applied in a variety of eating patterns that meet individual needs and preferences’. This report was included in the 2020 ADA Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes update. (3) “ (3)…

  • Dietary Guidelines

    Dietary Guidelines

    “Global dietary guidelines have been updated to align with scientific evidence. The American Diabetes Association (ADA), The British Diabetes and Dietetic Associations, Diabetes Canada and Diabetes Australia have included carbohydrate reduction (CR) in their official T2DM dietary guidelines.(1,2)” While the above statement is true, there are still reservations about the long-term viability of very low…

  • Nothing Published for a Year.

    Nothing Published for a Year.

    Two things have caused me to stop writing this blog for the last year. First, that the low-carb professional community were reluctant to be active, at least in public. I felt that despite the progress we had made, I was like a mad dog barking at a lamp post. Second, that my own health was…

  • New Research – 2017

    New Research – 2017

    Glucose Spikes Uncovering a Hidden Threat A documentary for NHK, filmed in Japan, the USA, and Italy. Prof. Antonio Ceriello says that, “Glucose spikes undermine our health, even though we are unaware of it.” As well as obesity, glucose spiles are a driving force in type II diabetes, heart disease, poor circulation, diabetic foot ulcers,…

  • Fitness and Strength

    Fitness and Strength

    Six Minute Walking Speed Test: This is a standard test which is commonly used for older people in a hospital rehabilitation setting.

  • Being a “Free Country” Makes Us Sick.

    Being a “Free Country” Makes Us Sick.

    Vested interests control the political world in every country. That controls what it’s sensible to talk about, and how we organise ourselves. The elephant in the room is our poor health.

  • How to Avoid Early Death by Heart Attack

    How to Avoid Early Death by Heart Attack

    Cardio-vascular disease is the main cause of death in modern societies. The cause is our lifestyle. It is a community illness not a health problem, doctors can CURE.