.Every 5 years the Dietary Guidelines in the USA are reviewed. The latest exercise is in progress and the first draft was released in February 2015 (1). The crucial and potentially contentious aspects relate to fat, sugars and salt. The position of the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC) was that it: “…encourages the consumption of […]
In the light of the excellent paper by Zoe Harcombe and her team which demonstrated conclusively that there was no reliable evidence on which to base the official dietary guidelines when first devised in the USA and in the UK, the BBC has featured this issue in a radio programme (1). This includes interviews with
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If anyone had doubts about why the current official dietary recommendations which emphasise the benefits of a diet low fat and high carbohydrates are fundamentally flawed, they should have been at the recent Low Carb Summit in Cape Town. When all the available scientific evidence is collected together it is abundantly obvious that the existing
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This is a repost from Karen Thomson’s Blog. The original can be sourced at http://buff.ly/1EuS5zJ I am very grateful to Karen and Tim for permission to re-post. PROF TIM NOAKES – THE OLD MUTUAL HEALTH CONVENTION PRESENTATION SUMMARY By Karen Thomson, February 25, 2015 Written by Prof Tim Noakes My critics have called me deluded
I have just returned from Cape Town where I was attending the first International Summit Low Carb Summit. This was a unique event hosted by Professor Tim Noakes and organised by Karen Thomson and her colleagues. It is the first time that most of the leading figures in the world from a variety of disciplines
Despite the recent report (1) by Zoe Harcombe and her team which demolished one of the main planks used to justify the original advice to reduce the saturated fat (SFA), there are still individuals who are not prepared to accept that the conventional dietary guidelines were fundamentally flawed. One of these is Professor Christine
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A paper entitled: “Evidence from randomised controlled trials did not support the introduction of dietary fat guidelines in 1977 and 1983: a systematic review and meta-analysis” by Zoe Harcombe and colleagues has been picked up by the press in a big way (1). Here are some examples of the headlines: • Daily Express: “FAT is
YORKSHIRE FOOD REVOLUTION Reducing the risk of heart disease, diabetes and obesity There is a wide variety of high quality foods produced in Yorkshire, especially meat and meat products as well as butter, cheese, cream and yoghurts which are based on milk from cattle and sheep. Unfortunately many of these are regarded as “unhealthy” because
We have now reached a position where it is absolutely obvious that the conventional recommendations on Healthy Eating which advise reducing saturated fat (SFA) and increasing complex carbohydrates are fundamentally wrong! In fact they are a key factor responsible for the deteriorating standards of public health in many countries as illustrated, for example, by the
It really all is happening in South Africa. A few years ago Tim Noakes who is Professor of Sports Science at Cape Town University discovered that he has developed Type 2 Diabetes (T2D). This was despite the fact that as a marathon runner he was physically fit. Furthermore he had followed the conventional dietary guidelines