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LOW CARB MYTHS
Is fat bad for your heart ?
Dr. Malcolm Kendrick on…the idiotic dietary advice
we give to diabetes patients
"Personally, I do not believe that fat consumption has the
slightest impact on heart disease in people with or without
diabetes, and I would defy anyone to unearth a controlled study on
restriction of dietary fat that has shown any impact on CHD."
Malcolm Kendrick MD
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Sylvan Weinberg, former president of
the American College of Cardiology:
'The low-fat "diet heart hypothesis"
has been controversial for nearly
100 years.
"The low-fat,
high-carbohydrate diet, promulgated
vigorously by the National
Cholesterol Education Programme,
National Institutes of Health and
American Heart Association since the
Lipid Research Clinics-Primary
Prevention Program in 1984, and
earlier by the US Department of
Agriculture food pyramid, may well
have played an unintended role in
the current epidemics of obesity,
lipid abnormalities, type 2 diabetes
and metabolic syndromes. '
This diet can no
longer be defended by appeal to the
authority of prestigious medical
organisations or by rejecting
clinical experience and a growing
medical literature suggesting that
the much-maligned low-carbohydrate,
high-protein diet may have a
salutary effect on the epidemics in
question."
At this stage I have got to come clean on a few
issues. The low carb. life style has one major draw back, there is
no money in following this way of life. By dumping the highly
processed factory produced food, and staying nil/minimal med’s, the
big food and pharmaceutical companies lose out big time. The profit
margin on fresh food is very low, compared to the long shelf life,
laboratory concocted poison, that has become the main stream food
for so many in the so called developed world. All is not lost for
them, they can afford to spend billions promoting the food that has
led to an epidemic of obesity and it’s often associated type 2
diabetes. Ever wondered why a low carb way of life is not endorsed
by DUK , and the majority of Healthcare professions ? Check out DUK
and what it euphemistically calls “acknowledgements.”
Link
With so many pharmaceutical companies and cereal
manufacturers on board, is DUK going to bite the hand that feeds ?
Most Healthcare Professionals are held in the vice like grip of the
NICE guidelines and are following the decades old dogma, of “cut the
fat and up the carbs“. For close on forty years the so called
American food pyramid has prevailed. “Up the carbs and drop the fat“
Result, a complete disaster. Massively increased obesity, diabetes,
heart disease and stroke.
If you start researching low carb diets you will
not take long to find articles referring to the scientifically
unsupported, negative side of low carbing. The great myth often put
out is that low carbers eat to much saturated fat, and that our
cholesterol numbers will suffer. Total nonsense, and I will tell you
why. The people with lowest cholesterol levels have the highest rate
of heart disease. The Australian aborigines have that distinction.
The Swiss have very high cholesterol levels and a very low rate of
heart disease, fact. Not my opinion. That of the WHO.
Mankind prospered and survived on a diet of meat,
saturated fat, berries, nuts and vegetation, for thousands of years,
why is it so bad for us ?
You will have to learn to
cook and prepare your fresh food. The low carb way of life, is not a
diet, because if you want to stay healthy, you will follow this road
for the rest of your life. Time and effort must be put in to reap
the many benefits this life style has to offer.
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