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The biggest health blog in Scandinavia, with over 25 000 daily visitors, now has an English version: DietDoctor.com.
This is the blog of Andreas Eenfeldt, MD. The goal is to spread new knowledge, dispel old myths and to inspire you on the road to impressive health.
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A bit surprising considering the amount of dummies that talk on youtube, but hey perhaps people are getting smarter
I'm sure some people will accept that invitiation!
-Michael
The swedish "authorities" already know Andreas and his blog. I dare to say that if they would try to stop him hell breaks loose. I can "see" the headlines in the papers... anyone with any sort of selfperserveans leave the Doc to his business. Anything else would be suizide
What do people think about this from the What Doctors Don't Tell you site today: 'Statins are killers and cause major artery damage, say researchers'? There's a short description on the site. (Source: Diabetes Care, 2012; epublished ahead of print: PMID: 22875226).
http://www.wddty.com/statins-are-killers-and-cause-major-artery-damag...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/22875226/
I guess the numbers probably don't tell us a lot either way, although they may indicate a trend, but it's a good interview in any case.
How about some interviews with fellow Swedes, so the rest of us know what you're thinking?
Also, how about asking Michael Eades or Cate Shanahan or Jack Kruse?
A link for those interested.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EffpuKqWWF8
Anyway, from 28:00 to about 30:10 he throws out a couple theories. Very weak.
I'm actually surprised he doesn't have a well thought out position on this contradiction.
When I've seen it discussed here, some posters seem to think they've got figured out, but apparently Gary is not one of them.
Very disappointing answers. Really no answer, just a couple guesses he throws out, then moves on with a poor comparison to lung cancer.
Give those couple minutes a look.
Listen to minutes 28:00 through 30:20 and he really falls short on any science based facts as to why they are healthy eating so great a portion of their diet from carbs.
He seems to just be throwing out a few "perhaps" and "possibilities" without anything to back it up.
Asians do get diabetes.. and it seems that they are more sensitive to rise then westerners, anyhow!
"Results Four articles were identified that included seven distinct prospective cohort analyses in Asian and Western populations for this study. A total of 13284 incident cases of type 2 diabetes were ascertained among 352384 participants with follow-up periods ranging from 4 to 22 years. Asian (Chinese and Japanese) populations had much higher white rice consumption levels than did Western populations (average intake levels were three to four servings/day versus one to two servings/week). The pooled relative risk was 1.55 (95% confidence interval 1.20 to 2.01) comparing the highest with the lowest category of white rice intake in Asian populations, whereas the corresponding relative risk was 1.12 (0.94 to 1.33) in Western populations (P for interaction=0.038). In the total population, the dose-response meta-analysis indicated that for each serving per day increment of white rice intake, the relative risk of type 2 diabetes was 1.11 (1.08 to 1.14) (P for linear trend<0.001).
Conclusion Higher consumption of white rice is associated with a significantly increased risk of type 2 diabetes, especially in Asian (Chinese and Japanese) populations."
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3307808/
But I dont realy think so anyway, its probably about other nutrients to!
I do think its more about incidens.. you know, sweds did live on a high carb diet for som generations to.. without obesity and diabetes!
But then.. for say hundred years ago it was about to get enough energy to survive, and I say its about that to in almoste other poor country.
So if one do burns all carbs, then you probably dont get that problems.. becuse then there are always place to store the glucose.. rather the cells sucks it up without a lot of insulin trying to push it in!
And then.. if your cells already is full of glucose, then your body do increase the insulin level to store in other places!
I dont realy know, but I know that one can live on a high carb diet to.. and thrive on that!
But I think this is not the question.. it is why is the obesety and diabetes goes up to an epedemic level in modern societys!
And like the question that Gary get, I give you one to sort out;
In our societys there is a lot of persons, that eat a lot of junkfood, drinking alkohol and using tobaco.. and howe are healty and get a high age befor they die of natural causes?
Explain that if you can!
I say its about incidens!
"Incidence is a measure of the risk of developing some new condition within a specified period of time."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incidence_(epidemiology)
A risk is a risk, not an obligatory outcome.
If one alter some parameters, more peopel get an higher risk to develop an perticaly disease, but not everybody do get it.
Some peopel are more sensitive to an alterd parameter.. like an high glycemic load for instans.. there is an great genetic compound in diabets you know.
I recommend this article about problems with Paleo science, written on primal blog.
http://www.primalliving.co.uk/2012/05/diet-debate-the-problems-with-p...
In the end it's up to each and everyone of us to find what works with our tastes, beliefs, physical characteristics and so on.
I come here to DietDoctor.com and I equally visit http://www.drmcdougall.com/forums/index.php
The site and especially the discussion board.
I tell you, its amazing. Like two sides of the same coin. Like two different religions.
True believers all armed with studies and the ancient history of man.
Each ending up feet deeply embedded in cement.
But thats what I like, getting both perspectives.
I would say that DietDoctor.com allows for more controversy. Oh everyone may disagree with a point, but they don't censor you and kick you out as they do on some of those other sites.
I enjoy DietDoctor videos.
Its all great. Everyone should be very skeptical of everything when it comes to diet.
I must say though, those that go to the extremes, I wonder how their brains operate.
Its one thing to cut way back on carbs, but to load up on bacon, butter and the like, seems equally bizarre. Even the Paleo people didn't have access to sticks of butter.
I appreciate this site. I do have trouble with Taubes overly simple explanations about those many Asians who live mostly on carbs.
Still, I'm sure there are many people who do well in the near term on LCHF, certainly during the weight loss phase.
Three years, five years, 20 years out, I am not at all sure how healthy LCHF is.