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Sweden has become the first Western nation to develop national dietary guidelines that reject the popular low-fat diet dogma in favor of low-carb high-fat nutrition advice.

Some quotes from Prof. Nyström translated into English from Dr. Eenfeldt:

Butter, olive oil, heavy cream, and bacon are not harmful foods. Quite the opposite. Fat is the best thing for those who want to lose weight. And there are no connections between a high fat intake and cardiovascular disease.

On Monday, SBU, the Swedish Council on Health Technology Assessment, dropped a bombshell. After a two-year long inquiry, reviewing 16,000 studies, the report “Dietary Treatment for Obesity” upends the conventional dietary guidelines for obese or diabetic people.

For a long time, the health care system has given the public advice to avoid fat, saturated fat in particular, and calories. A low-carb diet (LCHF – Low Carb High Fat, is actually a Swedish “invention”) has been dismissed as harmful, a humbug and as being a fad diet lacking any scientific basis.

Instead, the health care system has urged diabetics to eat a lot of fruit (=sugar) and low-fat products with considerable amounts of sugar or artificial sweeteners, the latter a dangerous trigger for the sugar-addicted person.

This report turns the current concepts upside down and advocates a low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet, as the most effective weapon against obesity.

The expert committee consisted of ten physicians, and several of them were skeptics to low-carbohydrate diets at the beginning of the investigation.

Sweden Becomes First Western Nation to Reject Low-fat Diet Dogma in Favor of Low-carb High-fat Nutrition

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From issue 2899 of New Scientist magazine, page 30-34.

Far from being passive hangers-on, symbiotic microbes may shape the evolution of the plants and animals that play host to them

DISPOSING of corpses can be tricky. Bury them in a shallow grave and hungry animals are liable to dig them up. Our body faces a somewhat similar problem when it comes to disposing of unwanted substances. One of the ways the liver purifies blood is by adding the equivalent of a “chuck this out” label to molecules, but this label is made of a kind of sugar – and the bugs in our gut have a sweet tooth. Some produce a special enzyme that allows them to cut off the sugar and eat it, which often results in compounds being recycled within the body rather than disposed of.

Back in the 1980s, Richard Jefferson used the enzyme to develop a powerful technique now relied upon by thousands of genetic engineers around the world. At the same time, he was intrigued by the enzyme’s normal role. Its recycling effect helps determine the blood levels of many compounds, including important substances such as sex hormones. Jefferson realised that the bacteria within us, far from being passive hangers-on, must affect us in profound ways.

In the past decade, this view has started to become mainstream. Study after study has shown how the microbes living in us and on us – the microbiome – can affect our health and even happiness. But back in the 1980s, Jefferson took this idea even further. If microbes are so important, he reasoned, they must play a big role in evolution too. He came up with what he called the hologenome theory of evolution. “The hologenome is the biggest breakthrough in thinking I’ve had in my life,” he says.

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Symbiotic Microbes may shape our evolution!

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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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Earlier this year I attended a the London WAPF conference in support of Dr Stephanie Seneff and we were fortunate enough to meet Dr Natasha Campbell-McBride. Once Dr Natasha C-M explains what happens to the food you eat and how it affects your health you are empowered to improve your health. She asks you to consider the community that lives within us digesting our food and protecting us from infection and harm.  Once you understand your symbiotic relationship with this microbial community you will respect it, nurture it and take much greater care of what you put in your mouth.

e.g. If food manufacturers treat food to extend its shelf-life (the spoilage bugs can’t survive on it) you have to consider what that does to your internal community of microbial friends when you eat it!

Put You Heart In Your Mouth!

‘Put your Heart in Your Mouth’ – Dr Campbell-McBride