The majority of our youth are having too much sugar in their ‘diet’.

That’s even when looking at the absolute lower limit of 10% of energy intake proposed by the WHO last year. If we take the recommendation 5% by the WHO, then it will be rare to find those children in the Australian community.

Reducing added sugars to less than 5% intake equates to about 6 teaspoons of sugar for adult males, 5 teaspoons for women and 2 to 3 teaspoons for children. That’s about a third of a cup of fruit juice or soft drink or 2 to 3 squares of chocolate.

Recharged the batteries for myself and the team.

We had an opportunity to meet and discuss a whole variety of topics over 2 days. Plenty of friendships at Rod Tayler’s home and just a few politics 😎.

2016 looks to be a year of awareness and hopefully community change.

What is the real cost of eating LCHF versus the Australian Dietary Guidelines?

LCHF is cheaper and healthier! Far less sugar, far less carbs and healthy fats.

Kate has taken apart the nutritional profile and real costing of living an LCHF way.

The world is waking up to the fact that diabetes is among us and is a real problem.

“In the 1980s the highest rates were found in affluent countries.

But, in a remarkable transformation, it is now low and middle income countries bearing the largest burden.

“Overnutrition and underexertion have become such widespread problems.” More science behind poor eating and disease.

“Despite its apparent complexity, one factor stands out. A sophisticated junk food industry, aided by subsidies from willing governments, has devoted years of careful effort to promote overeating through the creation of a new class of food and drink that is low- or no-cost to the consumer, convenient, savory, calorically dense, yet weakly satiating. It is past time for the rest of us to overcome these foes of good health and solve this man-made epidemic.”

http://www.atherosclerosis-journal.com/…/S0021-915…/fulltext

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1005410896220028&id=393958287365295

A bit of a soft response from the Australian Medical Association this week on a sugar tax. We can do better than what the AMA has just released.

“But so far there seems little appetite for the idea ‘of a sugar tax’ in the Australian Government, and it is meeting stiff resistance from the beverage industry.”

There are only 3 groups of people out there.

You either have diabetes, you are going to get diabetes or you are going to be caught up in the economic or personal costs of diabetes. Pretty simple – so it’s worth paying attention to this topic.

Ready to make some serious profit?

Life itself.

LCHF.