Monthly Archives: August 2014

Inflammation and Depression

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I truly believe that reducing inflammation is beneficial in mental illness and depression is right up there for that. There is emerging evidence supporting the role of diet in helping depressive illness.

How does the inflammation start – I put a lot of that down to the polyunsaturated oils and particularly in combination with fructose and refined carbohydrates.

I know of several people who have had a significant improvement of their depression on LCHF.

Part of that is just taking back control of part of your life and eating habits. Part is probably a reduction in inflammation. It can all help.

http://chriskresser.com/is-depression-a-disease-or-a-symptom-of-inflammation

http://www.nofructose.com/introduction/nutritional-model-of-modern-disease-2/

The Massive Cost of Diabetes – Probably a Million Dollars per hour in Australia!

It is spiraling out of control.

The United Kingdom is spending the equivalent of $2.7 MILLION PER HOUR or $44 thousand per minute on the management of Diabetes.

Australia has about a third of the UK population which puts us close to a Million Dollars per hour spent on trying to manage People with Diabetes – most of that is on the complications of the condition.

(And yes I am putting the Type 1’s in there before anybody gets sensitive about me not differentiating Type 1 and 2)

There is only one answer and that is PREVENTION. Addressing lifestyle and particularly diet WILL prevent, treat and potentially reverse Type 2 Diabetes.

A LCHF dietary approach is the best practice for control of blood glucose in Type 1 and 2 Diabetes. The Type 1’s are still going to need some insulin.

I still believe that a long term decrease in inflammation has a role to play in the prevention of Autoimmune disease and may benefit the whole Type 1 population.

http://www.diabetes.co.uk/cost-of-diabetes.html…

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