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Big food and big pharma killing for profit?

Anybody on facebook can follow Dr Asseem. He is fantastic and very up front fighting the pharma industry. He stands a chance with NICE/NHS too as his father (another superb) consultant is in a very favourable position to influence as well.
 
kokhongw said:
I heard this was on the front page...
https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/945376/NHS-obesity-advice-health-crisis-carbohydrates
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I read the article and was interested in this piece of advice:

"Public Health England’s chief nutritionist Dr Alison Tedstone said: “High-fat diets are often high in calories and can lead to weight gain – this can increase the risk of heart disease, Type 2 diabetes and some cancers.

“Too much saturated fat increases blood cholesterol, which also increases the risk of heart disease. “We recommend a balanced diet based on starchy high-fibre carbohydrates that are also low in saturated fats.”
 

That has been the official stand for the last few decades around the world. The insistence that it is the calories that count and saturated fats are to be feared...

But that general dietary advice has led to a 99.86% failure rate in T2D achieving remission status...
http://www.diabetes.org/research-an...ss-to-research/type-2-diabetes-remission.html
 
This persons views I find offensive, she has power over guidelines for what is eaten in England (which no doubt influence the UK), always takes the same view. In an interview a few years back she was quizzed why Cola was on the Eatwell Guide / Plate, she denied it was, then qualified her response, saying the guide / plate was under review; not long later, the Cola was removed. In a documentary on eating fat she said words to the effect that sugar should be reduced, then in the very next sentence said starchy carbs should be increased...and she is still in charge, wow.

Her sentence above brings to mind what Dr Sarah Halberg espoused "Do the opposite of the guidelines" (paraphrased).
 
An interesting video (linked by Dr Jason Fung on Twitter) along the same lines as Dr Malhotra's talk - on the subject of : The corruption of evidence based medicine-Statins for diabetics- Good idea or Bad idea?



 
I take from Dr. Malhotra's presentation:

The opinion that Aseem is an altruistic, honest and caring physician.
That he is steadfast and courageous enough to put everything on the line to bring we, the little people, the information that will give us back the freedom of choice regarding our own health.

The Queen's Physician (as was) said some things that truly resonated with me. What strikes me about him, and other people like Tim Noakes is that they are confident enough to admit that they were giving out the wrong information but tireless in their efforts to put this right. It made me think about my own GP, he was/is being misled by Big Pharma just as much as anyone else. I will look on him a little more kindly from now on.
 
Hi All,

This thread was started to discuss the following:
'Dr Aseem Malhotra, leading UK cardiologist and medicine revolutionary, is going to the European Parliament to argue the case for lifestyle medicine and explain why lawmakers need to change EU health policy'

But has, unfortunately, been derailed into a different political discussion despite requests to stay on track.

As a result, several posts have been deleted.

Everyone is welcome to discuss the deleted subject matter, but please use a different thread to do so, so that those who are interested in this thread can continue this discussion.
 
Agree completely.. she always makes me shout at the radio with her uninformed platitudes..
 
https://diabetes-resources-producti...es-s3/2018-03/1373_Nutrition guidelines_0.pdf

This is the March 2018 guidelines from Diabetes UK (140 pages of it). There are some glimmers of hope here in that it references the possibilities of low carb diets and many other varieties of diet that can be tailored to individuals.
But the main focus is still eat less and move more. Don't eat saturated fat. The Eat Badly plate still rules but I think the message is getting more nuanced and for us type 1s it talks about research into a low carb approach which I hope will caome to pass as these diets weren't even considered by NICE previously.
Thanks to all of those who've posted links to Aseem and Ivor!
 
Well that seems to have killed the thread.... At least it was getting bumped.......

I note that the thread title does not mention either Dr Malhotra or EU parliament.
 
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