Low Carb News

Dr. Troy Stapleton has spoken about his experiences at a number of our Low Carb Down Under events and inspired many people with Type-1 Diabetes to go Low Carb.
He has recently returned from six days hiking in the Tasmanian wilderness. Here’s how he did it.

David Gillespie takes us through five instances where the nutrition profession have told us something about food that has been horribly wrong. David argues that some of the advice was so horribly wrong that, in many cases, we’d have been better off doing the opposite of what they said.

The New York Times reports that Coca Cola has been busted for funneling millions into scientific research that promotes a lack of exercise as the main contributor to obesity, rather than the consumption of sugar sweetened beverages and calories. The group’s website also omitted mention of Coke’s backing until Dr. Yoni Freedhoff, an obesity expert at the University of Ottawa, wrote to the organization to inquire about its funding.

TYPEONEGRIT is a Facebook group where adults and parents of children with Type-1 Diabetes share the science and provide support for managing the disease using a Low Carbohydrate diet. It can be very difficult going against the mainstream advice of Endocrinologists, Diabetes Educators and Dietitians and in this post Marty Kendall says thank you to some brave individuals.

Drs. Richard David Feinman and Eugene J. Fine have created a www.booster.com campaign to raise funding for further research into the use of ketogenic diets to treat cancer. Pledging $17 to the campaign will get you a very cool ‘ketone bodies’ t-shirt and aid their research.

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’.