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About Glyn and Liz

Writer Liz wainwright and Independent Researcher Glyn Wainwright

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In 2004 I wrote a letter about Jupiter’s influence on Sunspots and Solar Radiance.

It also noted the relationship between sunspots and grain prices! T’was ever so!

What leaked IPCC report really says on climate change

It’s not us! It’s the Sun – Climate Change IPCC latest

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Zoe Harcombe sums up our criticism of the BMJ article on ‘Low Fats’ which statistically means very little but caused a lot of press led obfuscation – To quote Zoe H

The tragedy of this study is twofold:

1) it continues to perpetuate the demonisation of fat (and real food), which continues to drive people down the route of eating more carbohydrate (and processed food) and

2) it is a huge missed opportunity. The combined studies involved 73,589 people. Imagine that we had been able to get this number of people to eat nothing but real food and compare them to a control group still following the government eat badly plate advice and thereby eating mostly processed food.

Imagine that we had been able to do this for a period of six months, to meet the minimum follow up criteria. People who have been following The Harcombe Diet® for six months will most likely be at natural weight within this time, unless they have several stones to lose. Someone with six stone or more to lose can lose 50lb in six months – not a couple of pounds – and keep the weight off, as the diet does nothing to adversely impact hunger or metabolism.

“Eat real food, lose weight, gain health and stay that way!” Now that would have been a great headline!

BMJ Article – Perhaps they need to up their fat intake?

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Total Cholesterol levels in psychiatric patients after a suicide attempt are lower than healthy controls and remain low in follow-up, independently from the severity of psychopathology. The results support the role of low plasma levels of total cholesterol as a biological risk factor in suicidal behavior, especially in affective patients.

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reports of low levels of plasma cholesterol – suicide risk factor

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lizwainwright:

When people ask me where it all comes from, this writing, I tell them I have this special software – it’s called ‘my imagination’. There’s reality and experience in the background though; for example, when I was young we lived in a run-down pub not unlike The Black Bull.

I first started writing when I was a young Mum with two small children. I entered a novel writing competition in a magazine – I didn’t win, but it taught me to type!

My characters do most of the writing for me, they become voices in my head and take on a life of their own. They’re no angels, and they get into the sort of relationship situations which fascinate me. They make me care about them; they make me cry, and they make me laugh. I hope they’ll do the same for you.
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Fat Chance: Beating the odds against sugar, processed food, obesity, and disease by Robert H. Lustig

Obesity epidemic caused by too much sugar?

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Gut instincts: The secrets of your second brain by Emma Young

New Scientist 15th December 2012 page 39

Interesting view of the Enteric Nervous System.  This is a great article. Very timely before the festivities. I should however point out that there is much evidence that fructose damage (AGE and Sugar-Damage) to leptin receptors is on the increase in modern diets. The consequences are that people do not know when to stop eating. Again it is sugar that drives obesity not the fats. It is the fats make us feel satisfied and stop eating. Hence the success of traditional Lo-Carb Hi-Fat diets in creating better health profiles.

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Guts and Psychology Syndrome

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Dr Natasha Campbell-Mc Bride MD (ISBN0954852028) has much practical advice on the relationship between Brains and Digestive System in a range of disorders.

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What You Eat – It makes you think!

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Link to petition and it seems Fructose is the bad guy

Already more than 347 million people worldwide have diabetes and every 10 seconds 2 are added and 1 passes away from death. The latest counting was in 2004, an estimated 3.4 million people died from consequences of (high blood sugar). More than 80% of diabetes deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries and the counting is presumably exceeding the 500 million, taking in consideration that sugar is highly consumed in 3th world countries where counting’s are difficult. Poverty increases intake of sugar when different food is unavailable and where food is too expensive for the purse. Considering that less money in the purse results in purchase of cheaper food means also often purchase of processed foodstuffs wherein the producers added sugars to make the taste good and to fill to compete to better quality. The WHO projects that; diabetes deaths will increase by two thirds between 2008 and 2030. Here a short list of health risks: Sugar contributes to obesity. Sugar upsets the mineral in the body. Sugar contributes to the reduction in defense against bacterial infection (infectious diseases). Sugar causes a loss of tissue elasticity and function, the more sugar you eat the more elasticity and function you lose. Sugar reduces high density lipoproteins. Sugar leads to chromium deficiency. Sugar leads to cancer of the ovaries. Sugar causes copper deficiency. Sugar interferes with absorption of calcium and magnesium. Sugar raises the level of neurotransmitters: dopamine, serotonin, and norepinephrine. Sugar malabsorption is frequent in patients with functional bowel disease. High intake of sugar increases the risk of Crohn’s disease, and ulcerative colitis. Sugar greatly assists the uncontrolled growth of Candida Albicans (yeast infections). High sugar intake increases advanced glycation end products (AGEs)(Sugar bound non-enzymatically to protein) Sugar causes food allergies. Sugar lowers the enzymes ability to function. Sugar intake is higher in people with Parkinson’s disease. Sugar plays a role in pancreatic cancer in women. High refined sugar diet reduces learning capacity. High sucrose diets of subjects with peripheral vascular disease significantly increases platelet adhesion. Sugar feeds cancer. High sugar consumption of pregnant adolescents is associated with a twofold increased risk for delivering a small-for-gestational-age (SGA) infant. Sugar slows food’s travel time through the gastrointestinal tract. Sugar increases the concentration of bile acids in stools and bacterial enzymes in the colon. Sugar increases estradiol (the most potent form of naturally occurring estrogen) in men. Sugar combines and destroys phosphatase, an enzyme, which makes the process of digestion more difficult. Sugar is an addictive substance.

Law enforcement for a health warning for dietary sugar – a petition

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‘Fats and Cholesterol – Not Guilty!’ the Carbs did it.  High Protein is problematic so get the energy from Fats.

At the beginning of the last century obesity and type 2 diabetes were treated quite successfully using low-carbohydrate diets. Following the discovery of insulin, the carbohydrate content of the diabetic diet became more liberal, as glycaemia and glycosuria could be controlled, more or less well, with hypoglycaemic medication and insulin treatment. Later, saturated fats and high-plasma cholesterol concentrations were implicated in cardiovascular disease and since then high-carbohydrate diets have become synonymous with ‘health’ and have been conventional nutrition doctrine for the past 40 years. In spite of this, the prevalence of some non-communicable metabolic diseases have increased to epidemic proportions and have led an increasing number of researchers in the fields of medicine and nutrition to challenge the validity of present-day dietary guidelines. There is increasing evidence that diets with a lower, or even very-low, carbohydrate content can help overweight and obese individuals to lose and maintain lost weight, diabetics to control blood glucose with more ease and prevent the development of diabetic complications, while at the same time improving blood lipid profiles and biomarkers of cardiovascular risk. The present review considers the evolution of our diet and questions whether high-carbohydrate diets are indeed synonymous with health.

Low Carb Diets

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Whilst driving to a conference in 1992 I heard a BBC Radio 4 broadcast about a medical conference in which the role of essential fatty acids in eczema and related conditions was much discussed.  Several ideas took root.   Eczema was at the extreme end of a spectrum of immune system behaviours.   Over-active immune systems caused the autoimmune diseases (eczema psoriasis inflammation arthritis etc) whilst under-active immune systems were associated with cancer and chronic infection. This was far too simplistic but the role of essential fatty acids in eczema was making sense and producing clinical improvements.  I went on to explore the relationship between essential fatty acids and other micronutrients, vitamins and minerals with general health.  No valuable patents involved here and much smoke from studies funded by pharmaceutical interests after the introduction of steroid creams.

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Adult Eczema and Essential Fatty Acids

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In the late 1970s one of our children developed a very severe Infantile Eczema which was completely cured by a 2 week camping holiday in France.   Within one hour of boarding a British Ferry for the return home the Infantile Eczema was back!   Our son had consumed a carton of ‘Orange Drink’ containing E102 Tartrazine.   Most of our consumables from France carried the ‘Sans Colorant’ (no artificial colourings) flash on their label. On hearing this story our GP confessed that the medication being used to treat the condition contained E102 Tartrazine.   We had no more infantile eczema and our GP persuaded the Pharmaceutical Company to remove E102 from that widely used infant medication. Unfortunately E102 is still added to foods on sale in the UK.

Tartrazine Molecule E102

Infantile Eczema