Recent Content by rory robertson

Hi team, As many already know, added sugar is 100% carbs, it's almost ubiqutious and it is making the world fat and sick. :twisted: Here's an 18-minute video featured tonight on Australia's BBC (ABC) : http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/3821440.htm Readers, viewers, please join the...

Hello again, readers. I have posted twice here recently, highlighting: x the need for bans on all sugary drinks in all schools in all nations in all the world! http://www.australianparadox.com/pdf/Su ... ks-Ban.pdf x the emerging dangers for our kids' health from increasingly popular "low...

Believe it or not, Mexicans now are fatter than Americans on average. No prizes for guessing why. I'll CC you on the answer to that one: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/07/17/opini ... co-obesity Readers, I am an Australian promoting a ban on all sugary drinks in all schools across the world...

Yes, obviously 100% compliance is not going to happen, nor anything like it. Again, Yorksman, a key point of the ban is to make sure kids and parents get high-profile exposure to the need to avoid sugary drinks and foods, to avoid obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease and related maladies...

Yes, phoenix, there has been some great work done in the past decade or so, in restricting access to sugary drinks and foods, in the UK, Australia and elsewhere. In Australia, however, progress has been patchy. The State-based bans on sugary drinks in schools that were introduced in the 2000s...

Hi Yorksman. Things have moved on a bit since we both were kids, born as I was in 1966. More and more kids now are getting fatter and sicker. And lots of kids and parents have little idea about how it started and how it can be stopped. One key purpose of the ban is to send a strong message on...

Greetings - and happy National Diabetes Week (Australia), 14–20 July. Yes, I am Australian. Yes, the cricket is a disaster for us. :oops: Next topic! Sugary drinks are making the world's kids fat and diabetic (link below). Who will join with me in promoting a ban in all sugary drinks in all...

This is a long post and many readers may choose to give it a miss. :wave: On relevance - as most readers here already know - sugar/sucrose is 100% carbohydrate and 50% fructose. I assume those of us following a low-carb diet mostly junked added sugar from the outset. In any case, the big...

Phoenix, please let's just look at the relevant facts. The website to which you refer - with all its fluffy discussion - is the latest part of the authors' charade pretending that there are no errors. But when you get to the nitty-gritty of the key facts, it is clear that their paper is...

Reliable nutrition information is critical in the fight against obesity and diabetes. Unfortunately, the contribution of excess sugar/fructose consumption to obesity has been exonerated by high-profile but over-confident University of Sydney low-GI advocates - Dr Alan Barclay and Professor...

borofergie...I hope you are well. It's surprising we still keep being told in Australia that sugar is not a particular problem. Blind Freddie and all that. So I've read Gary Taubes's Good Calories, Bad Calories since last we spoke, so I now "get" better where you are coming from (and agree)...

Good morning. I am arguing near and far for the retraction of a deeply flawed paper - The Australian Paradox - by Dr Alan Barclay and Professor Jennie Brand-Miller. Background: The University of Sydney scientists last year claimed a profound scientific observation: "an inverse relationship"...

Agreed, Geoff. Actually was just reading Chapter 23 of GC, BC, in which GT documents how the whole world was hoaxed into today's low-fat high-carb disaster, via the simple say-so of less than a dozen dopey know-it-all "scientists" at the top of the US nutrition profession back in the 1970s...

Gary Taubes is again poking global health authorities and most nutritionists in the eye with his version of how the world got fat and diabetic. His key recommendation: ditch refined sugar and other carbs, except for small serves of green leafy vegetables. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/01/opini...

Yes, yes, it's all very complicated. For many, however, simply removing added sugar/fructose - anything sweet - will turn out to be a “silver bullet” for significant weightloss and better health. And then – as the suddenly sugar-free experience the unexpected joys of trending towards slimness...