A series of presentations looking at the modern low carbohydrate paradigm of nutrition.
Survival of the Fattest (presented 9 May 2020)
Inverting the Pyramid (16 May 2020)
I’m Not Fat: The Case For Dietary Change (23 May 2020)
Figures and Fibre Fallacies (13 June 2020)
SURVIVAL OF THE FATTEST
Below is the video of the presentation “Survival of the Fattest” presented via Zoom on Saturday 9 May 2020.
In 2004, the W.H.O. declared worldwide obesity to have reached pandemic proportions. In the UK nearly two thirds of adults are now either overweight or obese. This presentation examines some of the possible historic and metabolic reasons. I shall look at how dietary guidelines, studies funded by the food industry and aspects of our distant genetic past have all contributed to our expanding waistlines.
This now has more relevance than ever: In 2020, obesity and the associated underlying metabolic ill-health are increasingly being linked to poorer COVID-19 outcomes.
I have added a little more material to the talk to explore those connections with coronavirus.
The food list we mentioned his here:
The private GP practice that can perform blood tests is called the MK18 Private Medical Practice http://www.mk18medical.com
INVERTING THE PYRAMID
A 75 minute talk looking at to parts of the existing healthy eating paradigm:
- “You must eat five portions of fruit and vegetables a day”
- “Dietary fat clogs your arteries”
To address our metabolic health and reduce the risks of insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, obesity and heart disease, we must reduce carbohydrates and refined vegetable seed oils in our diets. Satiation then comes from higher consumption of natural intrinsic fats.
But doing this will make it difficult to eat our “five-a-day” and surely, also clog our arteries?
I explore the evidence!
I’M NOT FAT: THE CASE FOR DIETARY CHANGE
Too often, ´going on a diet´ is associated with the desire to lose weight or reduce body fat. This has two consequences
1. It disregards those or normal weight who could improve their metabolic health with appropriate dietary change.
2. It leads people into enforced caloric restriction even though that is not a robust solution to sustained weight loss.
Here I tackle the first of these (Caloric Restriction will be discussed in a later talk).
It is estimated that only 12% of American adults are metabolically healthy; two-thirds of UK adults of ‘normal weight’ are metabolically compromised.
This presentation looks at Metabolic Syndrome/Insulin Resistance as the cause of chronic illness and impaired immunity. Dietary causes and solutions are presented.
(Regrettably I forgot to press ‘record’ at the original presentation so this is a re-run. Presenter fatigue may well have set-in!!)
EATING4LIFE
Part 4 of my nutrition series.
In this presentation I look at the mechanisms for dietary change – motivations, changing habits and filling a plate to cut your carbohydrate intake.
This slightly longer than normal talk is in two sections:
Section 1 examines the ‘motivation-change’ graph and the trade-offs between small changes/smaller benefits and larger changes/larger benefits. I warn against the pitfalls of diet transplants and factors that could diminish willpower during change.
Section 2 looks at breakfasts, large meals and small meals and how to re-think what you eat. I also look at ‘keto flu’ as a side-effect of moving your metabolism from sugars to fats.
[There was a small issue at the start of the talk with a dialogue box hiding part of the slides. This is corrected at around minute 5 of the talk.]
FIGURES and FIBRE FALLACIES
So much of nutritional science is based on epidemiological experiments and yet by their very nature, such experiments are going to be difficult to interpret and often lead to mis-understanding.
In this talk I look at how we have often been misled – sometimes accidentally, sometimes deliberately – by spurious interpretation of research.
Often this is to the advantage of a food industry keen to keep us buying their processed foods, no matter the health consequences.
I then look at how this has shaped our understanding of fibre as an essential nutrient