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The Truth about Low Carb diets (?)

It's the Telegraph.....
Looking at the authors recent output this is the first article to go any where near "health".
For the skip.
 
This is such a great example of how to take a "study" and transform it into a headline..

study is here

http://circheartfailure.ahajournals.org/content/11/6/e004531

I just love the conclusion from the abstract

"Conclusions: In middle-aged men, higher protein intake was marginally associated with increased risk of HF."

So we have a "marginal association" which I think is one of the weakest links of all transforming into

"may even cause heart failure and raise the risk of fatal heart disease."

I expect this kind of rubbish in the "Daily Mail" but in the Torygraph I expected better standards obviously in vain.

Edit to add the study was based on a 4 day food record...that's right 4 days....
 
bulkbiker said:
This is such a great example of how to take a "study" and transform it into a headline..

study is here

http://circheartfailure.ahajournals.org/content/11/6/e004531

I just love the conclusion from the abstract

"Conclusions: In middle-aged men, higher protein intake was marginally associated with increased risk of HF."

So we have a "marginal association" which I think is one of the weakest links of all transforming into

"may even cause heart failure and raise the risk of fatal heart disease."

I expect this kind of rubbish in the "Daily Mail" but in the Torygraph I expected better standards obviously in vain.

Edit to add the study was based on a 4 day food record...that's right 4 days....
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Great. Thanks for posting the study and the quote.
It's probably a mistake to take any newspaper seriously these days. Kelvin MacKenzie was on the radio the other day more or less boasting about how easy it was to manipulate Public opinion.
 
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I fear you are quite correct.. these days I always try and get to the source and ignore the newspaper article.. such a shame and they all do it.. well not sure about the Times as I refuse to fund it..
 
I remember my mum telling me sugar puffs give you cancer! It was front page headlines. We were quite poor and she told me it was the perfect excuse for not spending money on cereal years later
 
It appears that even food now suffers from its own form of diet fashionistas. Low carb is so last year dahling....
 
A retired GP commented on my weight loss so I said 'low carb' and his reply was 'another fad diet but it appears to be working for you'. To which I replied 'no, a life style/diet for my health as I'm T2! He didn't know what to say after that.
 
archersuz said:
A retired GP commented on my weight loss so I said 'low carb' and his reply was 'another fad diet but it appears to be working for you'. To which I replied 'no, a life style/diet for my health as I'm T2! He didn't know what to say after that.
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Nice come back...
 
It's all truth and you fellas are havin' a tug. It says so in our national diabetic guidelines.
"Very low carbohydrate diets are not recommended for people with diabetes."
They wouldn't lie to me.
 
Ok, so I can be cynical. Especially when there's 'Truth' in a newspaper headline, because it often isn't.

I am curious as to whether the mounting evidence that following an LCHF diet is far more beneficial to us than the 'Eatwell' plan is triggering a bit of an institutional push-back. Us pesky diabetics not following official medical advice! How dare they!
 
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