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The Vegan and Vegetarian movements are quite well organised and their messages have become part of societal psyche, e.g. meat issues. The online film Vegan 2018 is well presented and polished.
Dr Aseem Malhortra (UK) and Dr Robert Lustig (USA) both rub shoulders with the powers that be, and have been told point blank that effectively politics (for me another word for big money) currently will block common sense changes.
What "we" could / should do is get some basics agreed such as a "body" we can all get behind, many of the low carb / keto heavyweights belong to different well meaning groups. We should learn the lesson of Judo (my wife's sport) and Karate (my sport); it is only now Karate is getting into the next Olympics, whereas Judo has been a part for over 50 years - the difference..... Judo has had minimal bodies, whereas Karate has 100's of bodies / associations, pulling is many directions, there are similarities I feel in our movement - I simply want people to know the basics such as carbs turn to sugar, how to calculate the real sugar numbers in food, fat differences etc.
I think the Public Heath Collaboration (https://phcuk.org/) is a fantastic body that could easily be scaled to go global, I would love to see this body merge with the Nutrition Coalition (https://www.nutritioncoalition.us/) and others. These could then be built on by including all of the movers and shakers e.g. Dr Fung, Ted Naimen etc. Definitions could flow and basic general advice, swaps etc. LCHF, LCHP, LC, Keto, PALEO, AIP, Atkins, WHOLE 30 IF and Fasting could all be represented; there have got to be millions of us who if just had a focal point would be powerful enough to educate and make major change. I would pay a subscription.
How about food menu options I see on some menus V = Vegetarian VE = Vegan, how about something like LC = Low Carb or K = Keto. I purposefully have not put LCHF as the food industry has done a number on Fat, so this may need to be compromised. Both LC and K would need to be broadly defined, but could include easy things such as no vegetable oil, suggested swaps for pasta, rice, potatoes, berries / cheese options etc - most places do low carb but just don't know it.
Many on this site have been in the press recently, so local initiatives are also good. I am doing what I can and have recently got the buy in of my local David Lloyd gym to give a presentation in January, also I have managed to get swaps agreed. I will be attempting to get the swaps agreed nationwide and also have their online menu drill down a little more to show the break down of carbs (https://menus.tenkites.com/davidlloyd/clubs), as this is electronic and centralised it should be easy to do.
"We" may need to be smarter, you just have to look at the coordinated recent press attacks on meat and cholesterol deniers again. How good would it have been for say 50 Dr.'s, Dieticians etc to have provided a single response to every news outlet and social media across the globe. What are you ideas to move things on, I don't want bleached meat, sweeter berries etc - just real food.
Dr Aseem Malhortra (UK) and Dr Robert Lustig (USA) both rub shoulders with the powers that be, and have been told point blank that effectively politics (for me another word for big money) currently will block common sense changes.
What "we" could / should do is get some basics agreed such as a "body" we can all get behind, many of the low carb / keto heavyweights belong to different well meaning groups. We should learn the lesson of Judo (my wife's sport) and Karate (my sport); it is only now Karate is getting into the next Olympics, whereas Judo has been a part for over 50 years - the difference..... Judo has had minimal bodies, whereas Karate has 100's of bodies / associations, pulling is many directions, there are similarities I feel in our movement - I simply want people to know the basics such as carbs turn to sugar, how to calculate the real sugar numbers in food, fat differences etc.
I think the Public Heath Collaboration (https://phcuk.org/) is a fantastic body that could easily be scaled to go global, I would love to see this body merge with the Nutrition Coalition (https://www.nutritioncoalition.us/) and others. These could then be built on by including all of the movers and shakers e.g. Dr Fung, Ted Naimen etc. Definitions could flow and basic general advice, swaps etc. LCHF, LCHP, LC, Keto, PALEO, AIP, Atkins, WHOLE 30 IF and Fasting could all be represented; there have got to be millions of us who if just had a focal point would be powerful enough to educate and make major change. I would pay a subscription.
How about food menu options I see on some menus V = Vegetarian VE = Vegan, how about something like LC = Low Carb or K = Keto. I purposefully have not put LCHF as the food industry has done a number on Fat, so this may need to be compromised. Both LC and K would need to be broadly defined, but could include easy things such as no vegetable oil, suggested swaps for pasta, rice, potatoes, berries / cheese options etc - most places do low carb but just don't know it.
Many on this site have been in the press recently, so local initiatives are also good. I am doing what I can and have recently got the buy in of my local David Lloyd gym to give a presentation in January, also I have managed to get swaps agreed. I will be attempting to get the swaps agreed nationwide and also have their online menu drill down a little more to show the break down of carbs (https://menus.tenkites.com/davidlloyd/clubs), as this is electronic and centralised it should be easy to do.
"We" may need to be smarter, you just have to look at the coordinated recent press attacks on meat and cholesterol deniers again. How good would it have been for say 50 Dr.'s, Dieticians etc to have provided a single response to every news outlet and social media across the globe. What are you ideas to move things on, I don't want bleached meat, sweeter berries etc - just real food.