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in Conferences, Real food, The food revolution, Weight loss 
The difference in food says it all.
In recent years I have attended dozens of conferences on how to treat obesity and other lifestyle-related health problems. But the food at the LCHF conference in Cape Town last week excels.
Here are pictures – and horrible examples from other conferences:
Food at the LCHF Conference in South Africa
The above are all examples from the first day. The other three days were at least as good – and on top of it all there was a constant variety. I’ve never seen anything this good at any similar conference.
Here’s the frightening contrast:
The World’s Biggest Obesity Conference
This isn’t a joke. Here’s lunch at the world’s biggest obesity conference, International Conference on Obesity, in Stockholm the other year.
Here’s the entire lunch package:
At the world’s biggest obesity conference they serve junk food that makes people fat.
They don’t understand. The organizers don’t understand. The participants don’t understand – or don’t care.
The World’s Biggest Diabetes Conference
This is lunch at the world’s biggest conference on diabetes research, EASD, in Vienna the fall of 2014.
What was inside the bags? This:
At the world’s biggest conference about diabetes research they serve junk food that causes diabetes.
They don’t understand. The organizers don’t understand. The participants don’t understand – or don’t care.
The Food Revolution
The epidemics of obesity and diabetes are spreading all over the world. The experts who should fight against the causes don’t understand them. Instead, they’re making the problem worse and desperately seeking new pills and surgeries that may alleviate symptoms.
Symptom relief will never solve the problem.
It will take a food revolution – a complete change in our approach to food and health – to reverse the epidemics. Fortunately the revolution is underway. The LCHF conference in South Africa, coming soon to London and Washington, is the best example in a long time. It’s happening now.
What do you think about the differences?
Presentations From the LCHF Conference
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Lunch at the Diabetes Conference
LCHF for Beginners
How to Lose Weight
Diabetes – How to Normalize Your Blood SugarPreviously On the LCHF Conference
The Greatest Gathering of Low-Carb Experts Ever?
The Launch of the Amazing LCHF Conference
Video From the LCHF Conference in Cape Town
The LCHF Conference Could Come to London and Washington D.C.
since learning the lchf way I do not trust any 'certified' dietitian or main stream doctor in advising me how to be healthy, 43 years of 'their way' nearly killed me, I am now 'reborn' the lchf way, am only 45 so the second half of my life will be the real life for me ;)
ps I am a 'health professional' myself, struggling to teach some of my own colleagues who are still blind folded by the low fat road :(
In a small part of the UK are helping people change their lives with your incredible knowledge, we are getting batches of the Real Meal Revolution sent to the UK for our friends and clients, we are hosting "Come Diet With Me" supper nights, we premiered the "Run on Fat" movie and we are continually talking to local GPs and health professionals in the hope that they will change their thinking. Change is coming but given that one of our doctor friends has pointed out they can't offer different advice until NICE guidelines change I imagine food provided at obesity and diet conferences will remain much like you have pictured for some time.
Thank you again for all your work, I am frequently sending my clients to your site to back up the information I give them.
Thanks for reporting it Andreas!!
We are on the right way. It just takes a bit of time. She said even the doctors at the big AKH in Vienna ("Vienna General Hospital", if I'm not mistaken the second largest hospital in the world) start to rethink their way of eating.
We're on the right way! Paradigm shift IS coming in some years! :)
Becuse there have been clinical trials of high fat, low fat, vegetarian diets, mediterian diet and high animal diets.. almoste everyone get a good result.. but LCHF seems to get the best.
Its becuse on those trials they get real food, the control group eats junk.. i.e. they eat there normal diet.. thats almoste useless junk!
And then.. look at the diabetes conferens lunch.. its junk.. and thats kind of normal!
Glad you enjoyed your time here.
Still smiling at all the good things that have come (and are still coming) from the Cape Town LCHF Conference.
Well done everybody
All the best Jan
What's worse: the people packing those lunches aren't told ANYTHING about who or why about the lunches--they're just told "We need 500 bags made up by X date", and then told what is to go inside each bag. Only later does anybody learn where the lunches were going, whom they were intended for, and then start regretting what they packed (or that they ever volunteered for such a mission).
It's nice to see that even the volunteers at the SA conference knew what it was about, obviously cared about what they were serving the attendees, and that the entire world got a chance to see their efforts (now that they are photographed here). Here is a population that GETS IT!
I find that Austrians generally appreciate the traditional foods, which is great and already goes long way to stay healthy. Beuschel, Blunzen, gerostete Leber, schmalz etc. And the Heurigen in the summer serving fresh (fatty)meat and veggies, amazing!
But then they serve all these junk food? Cakes, cookies? Chocolate bars? Potato chips? Seriously?
I used to be a LCHF loyalist, until I started calculating macro-nutrients for sport-training and now I have a better understanding how LCHF work, why other lifestyle eating habits also work (eg. Mediterranean Diet, Japanese Diet, the Soviet Diet) as well; and why the industrialized food system continue to fail us again and again.
I would still recommend LCHF to anyone who lead a sedentary lifestyle as it doesn't really require the extensive note-taking sports-training demand.
I am still mostly a butter-burner though judging from my aerobic functions. For anaerobic functions, well there's about 2 000 calories of glycogen stored in the liver and muscle-tissues, then the body switches to free protein and ketones. Can always replenish the stored glycogen with a good evening meal for the next day's run. And even then, I am still mostly eating protein and fats throughout the day; just that dinner is when I "carb-load".
Needless to say, my bg readings ran about 40-60 points higher than they were running at home. What makes matters worse, is that it took me nearly a month to stabilize my bg readings back at what they were before going into the hospital (80-100).
Oh, and I had a nutrition counselor tell me that I should only eat 2,400mg of sodium - I normally eat less than 1,800 - per day. She then started quoting research that I know was at least 15 maybe 20 years out of date. I tuned her out, and just nodded. What are the doctors doing to allow this sort of thing to happen? No wonder we have a diabetes and obesity epidemic! Like your conferences, they don't know, don't understand, or most likely just don't care. <
Becoming bored with bacon and eggs with salad and no toast
We believe in LCHF but still crave fresh bread.When busy it is easier to prepare.
Many thanks CY (Australia)
What a saving on the Health System.