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EventsThe launch of the amazing LCHF conference
Here’s the introduction to the LCHF Conference – yesterday – by the fantastic professor Tim Noakes. There are around 650 people in the audience, all that the room can take. Most are medical professionals, fantastically enough.
The slide is well chosen. Dr Christiaan Barnard performed the first heart transplant here in Cape Town in 1967. Closer to the end of his career he spoke these wise words:
I have saved 150 people through heart transplantations. If I had focused on preventative medicine earlier I could have saved 150 million people.
Modern medicine is mostly great. But it does not focus on prevention through life style change. Compared to drugs and surgery there’s almost no money to be made in life style change, unfortunately.
This fantastic LCHF conference is a big step in the right direction though. Hopefully there will be another similar conference next year in Europe – there are already some plans in that direction.
Would you care to elaborate? I would love to attend!
Look forward to more.
All the best Jan
http://www.health.gov/dietaryguidelines/2015-scientific-report/
Here's the first search hit on "low carb":
“For example, a low-carbohydrate diet fits this description and has been of public interest. The DGAC reviewed the body of evidence related to this type of diet as part of Question 2. Additionally, the Committee examined the results of exploratory searches on low-carbohydrate diets (defined as less than 45 percent of calories from carbohydrate) and all of the health outcomes considered in this chapter published since 2000. Overall, it appears that only limited evidence is available to address the relationship between low-carbohydrate diets and health, pa rticularly evidence derived from U.S.-based populations.”
It appears that the official plan is to remain in denial about the horrific public health consequences of the official public diet, until everyone originally involved it is dead (which won't take too long if they are actually following their own recommendations).
These people truly need to be replaced. The vast majority of their recommendations are based on no or little science. They're using epidemiological studies to vilify red meat and to promote coffee drinking. Epidemiological studies are what got us to where we are now. They should be treated with caution.
Also, they tell us to avoid saturated fat and instead eat polyunsaturated fat. Yet, this is what they say in their "Needs for future research":
"Examine the effects replacement of saturated fat with polyunsaturated fat vs. monounsaturated fat on cardiovascular disease risk."
So, they don't know what are the effects of replacing saturated fat with polyunsaturated fat, but they're telling us to replace saturated fat with polyunsaturated fat? That makes perfect sense.
"...RCT that substituted n-6 PUFA for TFA and SFA without simultaneously increasing n-3 PUFA produced an increase in risk of death that approached statistical significance (RR 1·16; 95 % CI 0·95, 1·42). Advice to specifically increase n-6 PUFA intake, based on mixed n-3/n-6 RCT data, is unlikely to provide the intended benefits, and may actually increase the risks of CHD and death."
Br J Nutr. 2010 Dec;104(11):1586-600. doi: 10.1017/S0007114510004010.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21118617 [open access]
http://www.escardio.org/about/Documents/EU-cardiovascular-disease-sta...
Other countries have the means of getting healthier through REAL science, while the asinine American "experts" lead their people to poor health and destroyed economy facing rising healthcare costs and a taxation system that cannot support it!!!!!!!!! morons!