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PLEASE would you consider contacting your MP??. We need political clout to help us get our approach out there- and a great opportunity approaches- I will be presenting the keynote address to the APPG on diabetes (Keith Vaz MP is chair) 5pm Wednesday June 27th committee room 11 Parliament. The...

RE BBC 1 The Truth About Carbs Now on i player I was nervous about this but I hope you agree the good folk of Kirby did us proud -amazing results in just weeks and some clear messages. Kirby is one of the most disadvantaged areas in Merseyside The idea is that its not just posh London folks...

So hours of TV filming reduced to seconds but what an exciting day !! The low carb message is really on the move now Again thanks for over three years of Forum support Sent from my iPhone using DCUK Forum mobile app

Taken from this weeks British Medical Journal: we are finalists in the diabetes team of the year category! Beating obesity and diabetes 'The scale of the twin epidemics of obesity and type 2 diabetes is daunting. “Back in 2012 there was a tendency to see it as hopeless,” says David Unwin...

I would like to draw everyone’s attention to a particular paragraph in the brand new NICE guidelines. These are produced to give an idea of ‘best practice’ to guide our health care professionals in their care for people with Type 2 diabetes. There has been much anticipation amongst us this time...

We health care professionals are supposed to be guided by these - though they are not 'Rules that must be obeyed' This bit at the start caught my eye 'Treatment and care should take into account individual needs and preferences. Patients should have the opportunity to make informed decisions...

So HbA1c was 90mmol/mol or 10.4% now 43mmol/mol or 6.1% What a great result in so short a time. Thanks for the permission to share this hopeful case. For the past two months I have been sorting out the riddle of how to explain the glycaemic index and hope to have a publication on it soon...

I wonder if glucose is central to the three great epidemics of our time; obesity, diabetes, and non-alcoholic fatty liver (20% of the population) With The Department of Obesity and Endocrinology, Liverpool University and Prof Feinman of New York we have researched a practical response to try...

One of the biggest barriers to professional acceptance of the LCHF diet has been the HF- high fat bit. And yet without it the diet is a terrible struggle! Partly through steady pressure by people like Zoe Harcome and Trudy Deakin the 'all fats are bad and saturated fats are very very bad' dogma...

Dear Friends as part of my efforts to get the low carb diet recognised as a viable choice for people with diabetes I have managed to get this into the BMJ-published today It's a detailed analysis of a case of someone with type two diabetes who came off all his meds (metformin statins...

AT LAST!! after so much work over three years our article is to be published this September in Diabesity in Practice. the Editor has agreed for you all to have a pre-publication summary. this is part of my efforts to get recognition that the low carb diet is a valid choice -not just for folk...

Low Carb case to be in British Medical Journal, the fourth most important medical journal in the world As part of my campaign to bring this approach to the notice of the medical establishment I have preliminary agreement to publication of a 2000 word article featuring someone with type two...

While researching for my 'low carb and the liver article' which is so nearly ready, and shows some great results from carb reduction in people with non alcoholic fatty liver disease I came across the following, rather surprising advice from Sugar Nutrition UK which I suspect represents sugar...

I was wondering why so many positive low-carb comments from Australia? An ABC Catalyst TV documentary shown a few weeks ago is the answer see http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/lowcarb/ From the length of the comments page it has really caused some interest. Have a look, I think its the best TV...

Please see my response here http://www.bmj.com/content/349/bmj.g4485/rapid-responses In the article they are wondering if its worth telling patients they are pre-diabetic - as you see my experience is that patients appreciate the opportunity to make dietary changes (to cut all sources of sugar)...

This study relates to pre-diabetics but I feel it is just as relevant to type 2 diabetics -In my own research after seeing the low carb results I could never bring myself to set up a 'control or non-treatment' group but these people did which makes it a better study than mine - any way here is...

Next week I'm in London for a photoshoot connected to my low carb research .I have already done one this week and was quite pleased with a shot of me dropping slices of bread and a pack of pasta into a dustbin .Cannot really do the same again- ideas please!

I notice resistant starch is mentioned as helping blood sugar controll in Marks Daily Apple web site. It sounds counter intuitive for diabetics to have carbs but he explains that resistant carbs are resistant to digestion in the upper gut and so by persisting to the lower gut manage to feed...

Here is the abstract of my piece - I am hoping to get you all a link to the full 3,000 word article but its not on-line yet, the paper form is first out. My idea is to give you something to show your Health care professionals that the approach is gaining ground, also it includes a suggested diet...