Low carb Paleo dieting was more effective for obese women with diabetes than a low fat one at 2 years.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releas…/2016/…/160402113040.htm

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1014770315284086&id=393958287365295

Will a sugar tax help the economy as well as the people? Yes!

http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2016/04/a-sugar-tax-would-save-lives-and-the-budget/

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“Eat until you’re full. Try to avoid snacking and eat real food.”

Sage advice.

http://www.theage.com.au/lifestyle/diet-and-fitness/a-fat-load-of-good-why-its-time-to-bring-full-fat-back-20160412-go4gyc.html#ixzz462e0ZucK

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Academics cannot believe that sugar is not the problem with obesity in Australia – unless you are from the GI Institute at Sydney University and if you have significant financial ties to the soft drink industry.

This link to the Lateline interview is working.

It is good to see the Sydney University academics of Jennie Brand Miller and Alan Barclay under question. My one interaction with Barclay last year was unpleasant and here he is refusing to comment to Lateline on the ‘errors’ in their research and his sponsorship from Coca Cola.

“Force yourself to eat anything in excess and you will probably do harm,”

“Eat until you’re full. Try to avoid snacking and eat real food.”

Sage advice.

http://www.theage.com.au/lifestyle/diet-and-fitness/a-fat-load-of-good-why-its-time-to-bring-full-fat-back-20160412-go4gyc.html#ixzz462e0ZucK

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The history of how we got to the nonsense dietary advice of the last few decades. All summarised here.

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/apr/07/the-sugar-conspiracy-robert-lustig-john-yudkin

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That margarine and seed oil is more likely to kill you than the butter. Last week saw another research paper overturn the concept of saturated fat being bad for heart disease.

How much can you trust old research?

The BMJ article revisits an old paper and its data. It then comes up with the opposite finding of what was originally published. Saturated fat was better from a heart disease aspect than the polyunsaturated oils. The exact opposite of what we have been guided to do over the last 40 years.

What a pity the hospital administration here in Launceston and health department missed the boat. I have been trying to get this sort of leadership for 3 years in Tasmania. Alas, maybe next week?

http://mobile.abc.net.au/…/soft-drink-sale-banned-m…/7316000

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Carb loaded meals and obesity are detrimental to the heart. A new mechanism explored.

“It is thought to be common sense that carbohydrate loading is detrimental; but the negative effects are delivered through the principal hormones, the natriuretic peptides, produced by your heart, a system that is suppressed in obese individuals,”

“Before the participants began the study, they were normalized on a standard diet for a couple of days to remove any background dietary variability. The investigators observed that drinking the high-carb shake led to a 25 percent reduction in ANP in participants over the course of several hours.”