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EventsDoctor in the House – watch diabetes reversed using low carb on BBC, while old-school dietitians freak out
Dr. Chatterjee spends two months helping a family where the husband has out-of-control type 2 diabetes. The husband is a walking time bomb for a heart attack or worse.
The prescription? A low-carb diet, intermittent fasting (eating only allowed during 10 hours per day) and some high-intensity interval training. After a while they add 24-hour fasting a few times a week. It may be the best treatment available anywhere.
The result? A revelation. In just two months his blood sugar control improves massively, he’s already off most of his diabetes drugs and he has lost tons of weight. He feels fantastic.
Old-school dietitians freak out
Can you see how dangerous this must be? All that sudden health and weight loss? Danger is apparently what old-school British dietitians see. The British Dietetic Association immediately put out a press release:
BDA: BDA alarmed by controversial and potentially dangerous advice in BBC’s ‘Doctor in the House’
Amazingly this is not a joke and they probably do not realize how absurd they sound. Isn’t getting personalized advice based on cutting-edge science, via their own in-house doctor a good thing? Isn’t massively improved health – even being able to get off medications – a good thing?
Isn’t it perhaps even better than following obsolete guidelines via the Church of Dietetics, while staying sick and on drugs?
On the Coca-Cola payroll
On a more alarming note the British Dietetic Association may not just be behind on updating their knowledge. They’ve also had the bad judgement of getting on Coca-Cola’s payroll, accepting sugar money and even “collaborating” with Coca-Cola on education for dietitians (meaning they let Coca-Cola attempt to brainwash their dietitian members). On top of that they are sponsored by makers of sugary yogurts (Danone) and cereals loaded with sugar.
Would you believe dietary advice from a dietitian educated by Coca-Cola, or a Dietetic Organization on Coca-Cola’s and Big Sugar’s payroll?
I’d rather trust an honest doctor – who’s revolutionizing his patients’ health – instead.
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They are afraid that their business will disappear when people realize that it is so simple to improve your health and lose weight just by cutting carbohydrate loaded food.
The diet in the show is not bad, but I did not see a lot of meat.
They looks like mostly vegetarian, that is why they did not drop a lot of weight.
Normally they should have lost weight like a cube of ice in a glass of hot water.
But, it is an improvement compared to the old diet.
But a doctor doesn't ask a dietitian for advice about reducing medications. I may be ignorant but I can't think of any way that would happen, or any reason it would need to. These guys have been sidelined and are trying to shoehorn themselves back into the picture. That would be easier if they had been helping to change it in the first place.
If you keep spouting bullshit, LCHF will end up as just another passing fad.
Please give me strength - some roles are more varied/specialist (believe me I know) and are worthwhile keeping - but some just make me gasp in utter disbelief!
Almost 3 years on I have lost a lot of weight, changed my eating regime (REAL food LCHF) and use intermittent fasting and HIIT. All blood tests are now non-diabetic and I feel 20 years younger. I daren't tell my "diabetic team" because I know i will just get ill-informed grief (aka NICE the UK cost effectiveness Institute guidelines, which don't work). It is a shame because I could do with some specific tailored advice AND since it works (for many) it would be good if it was at least considered as part of mainstream dietary/medical advice. I hope someone challenged the BDA, but I have grown disinclined to bang my head against brick walls. Perhaps a list of references sent to them?