How do you PREVENT future ill health? You can understand, that in the nuclear industry it’s critical that there are no “accidents” and there is a plan to PREVENT failures. Moreover, everyone who works there has to understand the plan and be personally committed to the success of the prevention program. If there is an […]
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Prevention is Your Health Goal I don’t need to tell you that as people get older they begin to have health issues. The question is, can those issues be prevented or delayed? There is a very clear answer to that question, of course delay is possible, and very often prevention is also possible. in this
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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
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Reversing Type II Diabetes There are three ways to reverse Type II Diabetes, bariatric surgery, a very low calory diet or a very low carbohydrate diet. Open Future Health has always considered the late Dr Sarah Hallberg the expert on this topic and her page in the expertise section of this website is here. There
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Dr David Unwin “British general practitioner, Dr David Unwin used carbohydrate reduction to reverse/remit T2DM; of 199 patients with T2DM, 46% achieved drug-free remission, with enormous cost savings from reduced diabetes medication.” What predicts drug-free type 2 diabetes remission? Insights from an 8-year general practice service evaluation of a lower carbohydrate diet with weight loss.
NZ Ministry of Health “New Zealand (NZ) does not endorse carbohydrate reduction as a viable option for individuals, but rather cautions against it. The NZ Society for the Study of Diabetes states in their guidelines ‘meta-analyses show that the benefits of ketogenic diets are unlikely to be sustained’ (5,6) and the Ministry of Health states ‘Very
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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
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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
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Insulin Resistance “Type 2 diabetes (T2DM) is a condition that involves insulin resistance and a reduced ability to control blood glucose. Science and logic indicate that reducing the very nutrient that raises blood sugar, ie carbohydrate, would be worth consideration, yet it’s been overlooked for many years.” Insulin resistance is a response of cells to
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To the Journal of Primary Health Care This is an Open Letter to the editor of the Journal of Primary Health Care. New Zealand’s slow uptake of carbohydrate-reduction in type 2 diabetes management by Marcus Hawkins GP at the Botany Doctor Medical Practice, and Caryn Zinn from the School of Sport & Recreation, Behavioural Nutrition and
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