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Dr. Steven Lin provides an excellent analysis of fructose and how our consumption of the perceived ‘healthy’ sugar has changed with the industrial food revolution. Isolated fructose overrides our hunger signals and leads to metabolic decline.

In April 2015, Registered Australian Dietitian Jennifer Elliot (B.Sc, PostGradDip Dietetics) was expelled by the Dietitians Association of Australia for recommending a Low Carbohydrate diet for her patients with Insulin Resistance and Type-2 Diabetes. Low Carb Down Under believes this action by the D.A.A. to be completely without cause or merit and we proudly stand by Jennifer and hope that she fights this appalling decision.

Published May 21st 2015 – David Mendosa writing for healthcentral.com gives some historical background on LCHF and offers some persuasive arguments on why Low Carb diets are the best.

Published in ‘The Times’, 25th May 2015. Writer Matt Ridley explores the u-turn on dietary advice about to be accepted by the U.S. Government and how low-fat eating has made us fat and sick. He summarises the article nicely with ‘Obesity and diabetes are the price we have paid for getting fat and cholesterol so wrong’.

Researchers at Cambridge University have reviewed previous studies on the supposed links between consumption of saturated fats and heart disease. They have concluded that saturated fat does not cause heart disease while so-called ‘healthy’ polyunsaturated fats fail to prevent cardiovascular problems.

Published in The Guardian, 11th May 2015 – an introduction to the soon to be releasesd documentary ‘Fed-Up’ which targets sugar as the main cause of our obesity epidemic. The film argues that big business is poisoning us with low-fat food marketed under the guise of being beneficial to our health while adding sugar to foods to make them more palatable.

An article published in ‘The Land’ on May 1st 2015 detailing how Australians are consuming thirty percent less grains than they did just four years ago. Michelle Brown, General Manager of the Grains and Legumes Nutrition Council has attributed the decline to the popularity of “fad diets” like Low Carb, High Fat and Paleo. We believe that a thirty percent drop in consumption across the country in just four years represents a major shift in thinking rather than simply a fad.

‘Sweet Life’ is a South African diabetic community for those who have diabetes, both Type 1 diabetes and Type 2 diabetes. They have opened up debate about the merits of a Low Carb, High Fat diet in the management of diabetes by calling for comments on the opinions of Professor Tim Noakes.

An excellent article published by Discover magazine in 2004. How could people who gorge on fat and rarely see a vegetable be healthier than us? The traditional Eskimo diet had little in the way of plant food, no agricultural or dairy products and was unusually low in carbohydrates. Mostly people subsisted on what they hunted and fished.