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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pdmjoker" data-source="post: 1857605" data-attributes="member: 468524">(Apologies if this has already been cited ...)WARNING: This post contains language such as "dietician" from the start, which some people may find highly offensive... <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />This BBC news page:<a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-42264838" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-42264838</a>is entitled: Top five celeb diets to avoid in 2018, according to dieticiansOne of the five diets under scrutiny is Keto. How better to discredit the Ketogenic diet than to associate it with 'celebs'? (I had once hoped for better journalism from the BBC...) It seems the whole premise is that no-one with half a brain or any medical knowledge would contemplate going Keto. Anyone calling it a 'fad diet' makes exactly the same implication...If that doesn't put you off the Keto diet, they quote Sian Porter from the British Dietetic Association (BDA), who said "The sinister thing here is people saying it can cure cancer and things like that - it absolutely cannot!"(Heard of PET scans to detect and investigate cancer? From the NHS website page on PET scans: "For example, a concentration of FDG in the body's tissues can help identify cancerous cells because cancer cells use glucose at a much faster rate than normal cells." where  FDG means fluorodeoxyglucose and is similar to naturally occurring glucose. Depriving cancer cells of glucose can be an effective addition to conventional cancer treatment, according to the dietary heretic Dr Jason Fung.)Apparently, Sian Porter also said by not eating carbohydrates, you avoid eating the calorie-laden things that generally accompany them: "If you're cutting out carbs, such as pasta, you're cutting out creamy sauce. If you're cutting out bread, you're cutting out butter. If you're cutting out biscuits, you're cutting out sugar."(Isn't sugar a carb??! If you're cutting out carbs, aren't you ... cutting out sugar?)Question: Who out there doing Keto, and who isn't intolerant of dairy, cuts out butter and cream? Anyone? No? Thought not...Shouldn't someone from the BDA, the professional association for UK dietitians, actually know what a Keto diet is, or at least understand the basics? <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite16" alt=":banghead:" title="Bang Head    :banghead:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":banghead:" />It's sad that the incorrect dietary advice causing the needless suffering of so many millions worldwide is purely caused by the financial aspirations, vested interests and professional pride of a few people. (I'm tempted to twist a Churchill quote here, but I'll spare you...) <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite66" alt=":stop:" title="Stop    :stop:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":stop:" />Perhaps the scale of the human cost of this global 'scandal' will only be eclipsed by that of Global Warming, which is so commercially inconvenient and irrelevant to short-sighted policy makers that otherwise sensible people refuse to accept the evidence.Sorry, I didn't know I'd be getting on my soap box... I've climbed down again now...</blockquote>

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