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EventsThe Diet Doctor plan for 2017
, medical review by Dr. Andreas Eenfeldt, MD
in About Diet Doctor 
We recently met up for our annual planning days in Karlstad, Sweden, to review our purpose, mission, and values, and to plan for 2017.
Here’s what we decided.
Purpose, mission and values
For the first planning days ever, we decided to keep our purpose, mission, and values exactly as before:
How to achieve our mission
In 2014 we made a four-step plan for how to make low carb simple:
1. Create the best low-carb site for low-carb fans in Sweden.
2. Create the best low-carb site for English-speaking low-carb fans.
3. Create the best low-carb site for English-speaking people who are looking for something like low carb.
4. Create the best low-carb site for English-speaking people who need low carb for health reasons.
The first two of these steps have mostly been achieved. During the planning days we decided to start working on step three from the spring of 2017.
To help more people, we are also considering to add other languages towards the end of 2017 – possibly starting with Spanish.
Our plan for 2017
We have decided to focus on three things during 2017:
1. Make it super simple to find us on Google.
We want to create guides for low carb, keto, intermittent fasting, and weight loss, that are so great that they are easily found when searching on Google. This means reaching #1.
2. Create an awesome membership which people love.
We want to make the membership so great that people fall in love with it and stay members long term.
3. Create amazing tools that simplify low carb.
We want to create tools, for example a meal planner with automatic shopping lists, that makes low carb way simpler for people.
These priorities can change as we learn more about how to make low carb simple for people.
What do you think?
If you have any feedback on our purpose, mission, values, or plan, please tell us in the comments below.
More behind the scenes
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Behind the Scenes: How to Make Low Carb Simpler Next Month (September)
Behind the Scenes: Making Products You Love
Behind the Scenes at Diet Doctor: Our Two-Month Plan
How Can We Make the Membership Insanely Great?
greetings from Holland José
But that is not the real problem. Most blogs now-a-days have a group of key words used in the blog that are shown in a side panel. The size of the font used for each word is different - some large, some small. The size as most people know is based on the frequency that the key word is used in the blog. The greater frequency of use will cause the word's font size to increase. It is very easy to look something up via clicking on one of the key words.
I think Diet Doctor should have such a key word group.
Then, I read her short biography at the end of the article. She is a board member of the Weston A Price Foundation. I sincerely hope that politics did not caused the WAPF to ignore its scientific standards to be compromised - like with the DGAC.
Maybe one of Diet Doctor's goals should be to be ruthlessly scientific.
Certainly, moving your body is a major part of the joy of life. But exercise is now a major for-profit industry, one that intentionally promotes not just fat shaming, but lack-of-pretty-boy-muscle / hot-yoga-pants shaming. Preying upon us, creating insecurity and distorting our sense of worth through negative body image, isn't the path to health. Your emphasis on eating whole foods that balance our whole body, is.
Food, like sex, has become entertainment. I go in the grocery and see no end of bright seduction, an industry that feeds us empty quick unsatisfying distraction. Who benefits from selling us food porn? Who profits? Thank you for helping us steer our way around them to health clarity.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Good government requires good citizens.
I have an acquaintance who is a Type 1 Diabetic (and has an insulin pump). You are telling him to stay sick or cough $10/mo. Note the large amount of bad advice on the internet and quack cures. Many Type-1 helps are over 6 months or a year old. You might ask "what is your health worth", but I'd reply "How do you know if it is good or bad advice, and you will have the cash either way after a month because of your paywall". I understand you need to prosper to keep the site running. But what do I tell fat people in India or Africa or China who can't afford your advice or even have a payment you would accept?
Also, except for opposing big sugar (starch, grain) corruption, avoid politics or other controversial science. Climate Change is conformist but there was email-gate. If you accept other status-quo government endorsed "science" at face value, you are hypocrites if you say the "eat more whole grains" government science has to be wrong. Skepticism is healthy in all areas - nutrition, vaccination, climate, medicine, biology, astronomy, and even physics and mathematics.
I do not think that Dr Fung intended to "fat shame" anybody....He wanted to point out that these people represented the old way of thinking and that it is not working... I guess he was expressing his frustration that no other options (like LCHF) were offered to patients. I feel that it is not productive to be oversensitive.....we all know that Dr Fung has great respect and compassion for his obese patients but he can be quite vocal toward the medical establishment that caused their health problem in the first place. Dr Fung is a crusader and I like him to stay that way even if he may bruise a few ego on the way toward his goal.
Your Recipes section is fantastic -- and I'm sure that kids would enjoy making simple snacks if they had some simple, appealing examples - for kids, you might need a sequence of photos so that kids could 'build their own' snacks from a sequence of pictures.
A Healthy Snacks for Kids section would be fabulous for all ages - probably the best recipes would require less than 10 minutes to make, or to assemble. (Things like the psyllium-based crackers or breads could be made ahead of time, or you could add those to the Kids Recipes and add some cheese on the top.)
Perhaps you could add a "Kids Health Foods Shopping List" so that anyone shopping could pull up that list on a smartphone and know that they've picked up the basics to make 4 or 5 simple recipes. (I use my smartphone while shopping to pull up DD recipes, and find this a real time-saver.)
Two quick ideas:
Hungry Caterpillars (one example: radish head with 2 raisin 'eyes' (glued on with peanut butter) and using sticks of radish for 'antenna'; the body made by offsetting slices of radish, cucumber, and carrot stuck onto peanut butter put on the plate in a 'winding path'). The variations on 'caterpillar' ingredients are endless, which is part of the fun.
'Frogs on a Log' (peanut butter on slices of celery, with raisins on the top as 'frogs'), but the variations of this basic idea are probably endless in terms of the kinds of ingredients kids could use.
Also, just about any kind of veggie or fruit is more fun for kids if you use cookie cutters on the sliced foods - tons of fun and quite attractive.
(I personally favor recipe names that rhyme - I told one child in my family that we no longer have soda, so we put sliced lemon and cucumber in fizzy water and she decided to christen it 'Fizzy Whizzy'.)
I don't have data, but I sure have a hunch that some excellent Kids Healthy Snacks recipes would bring more parents and care providers to the website, where they would then probably start learning from the videos.
And of course give us as much science as possible, I can't get enough of this, especially when
the bar in dietary medicine has been so low for so long.