Better health is possible for almost everyone. The greatest loss of healthy life years isn’t caused by poor medical services. Modern marketing, and the easy choices, “modern living” cost too many people 10 or 15 years of healthy life.
Claiming those years back requires some effort. Without your own knowledge you become a victim of low prices, fake foods, or wheat and corn packaged in 100 ways because that’s CHEAP. Drinks that are mostly sugar-water, are heavily marketed for the same reason. Supermarkets are dangerous.
It’s profitable to lie to the public, to confuse them about health, and to blame the public for making poor buying decisions and developing chronic disease.
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) American Diabetes Association. Standards of…
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 carbohydrate diets in the long…
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 an excess of insulin in the blood…
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 managementby Marcus Hawkins GP at the Botany Doctor Medical Practice, and Caryn Zinn from the School of Sport & Recreation, Behavioural Nutrition and Physical Activity, Auckland University of Technology Submitted: 30 January 2024: Accepted: 8 February…
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 still in question. I’d had…
Control Without Measuring
A basic principle of management is that you can’t manage what you can’t measure. But the trap is that when we have a simple, cheap and easy measure we often use that as a proxy for the measure we would like but don’t have. This is the root of many problems. The body has many autonomous biochemical responses that are…
Understand Insulin and Insulin Resistance.
Published on 15 Aug 2022, from the mindbodygreen podcast! Your host is Jason Wachob, founder and co-CEO of mindbodygreen. Today’s featured guest is Ben Bikman, Ph.D., a metabolic scientist with a doctorate in bioenergetics. “The single greatest predictor of a good night of sleep is if I go to bed on an empty stomach,” he says. In this episode, Ben…
Food Companies Control Health Information!
Part of a Blog hosted by Dhru Purohit Published on 20th January, 2023. Today on The Dhru Purohit Podcast, Dhru sits down with Calley Means to discuss his viral Tweet stating that he “saw inside the room” of Coca-Cola’s tactics to ensure sugar-sweetened beverage taxes failed and that soda was permitted in government-funded nutrition programs. (If you are keen, look…
Fitness for Older Adults
The previous post was about the very overweight RNZ executive Megan Whelan, who discovered that going to the gym and working with a personal trainer did wonders for her confidence and her strength. I’ve been very critical in the past of giving people “Green Prescriptions” so they could attend exercise classes at a discounted rate, so they might lose weight….