Diet Quest

19/10/2020

You may be aware of the 'Seven Countries Study' by Ancel Keys - blaming saturated fat and cholesterol for heart disease?

Findings that helped shape our 'Low Fat' dietary guidelines and have led to the tsunami of non-communicable diseases (NCD's) destroying lives and currently overwhelming our health care system. Draining health dollars world-wide :-(

Interestingly, when my dear friend Zoe Harcombe PhD, included 192 countries, the correlation ceased to exist! Boom... gone 🤔

https://www.zoeharcombe.com/2010/11/cholesterol-heart-disease-there-is-a-relationship-but-its-not-what-you-think/

Cholesterol becomes negatively correlated with heart disease when you look at all the data...

Zoe states;- "All foods that contain fat - from animal and plant sources - contain saturated, monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats in varying degrees. Gram for gram, olive oil contains seven times the saturated fat of a typical sirloin steak.

"The single greatest food source of saturated fat is the coconut – perfectly vegan.

"Meat, fish, eggs and lard all contain more unsaturated than saturated fat.

"The attack on saturated fat, falsely deemed synonymous with animal fat, is ignorant and unhelpful in the advancement of the “minimally processed” beliefs that vegans, vegetarians and omnivores can all share."

https://www.zoeharcombe.com/2017/08/the-seven-countries-study-part-1/

04/10/2020

VICTORY FOR NATURAL HEALTH CHOICE IN SOUTH AFRICA - The TNHA recently led an Alliance of various stakeholders to challenge the lawfulness of the draconian "Complementary Medicines" regulations under the Medicines Act, which threatened to severely restrict the public's continued access to safe natural health products in South Africa. We have just received judgement in this landmark case, and have won a major victory for natural health product consumers, the patients who are prescribed natural remedies by natural health practitioners and the wider industry. Stay tuned for a summary of this important judgement.

The TNHA, the only association actively defending your right to choose the healthcare modality of your choice in South Africa. We thank all our industry members, health practitioners, health store owners, consumers and followers for supporting us in this health freedom battle. Now its time to create a regulatory framework that works for all.

04/10/2020

01/09/2020

You probably didnt see that, a couple of weeks ago, a respected US scientific publication — the Journal Of the American College of Cardiology, no less — came out with a review of the literature saying there was no evidence that cutting saturated fats from your diet would help you live longer. An...

24/06/2020

The final nail in the coffin of the lipid (‘diet heart’) hypothesis was just published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, calling for a change to Dietary Recommendations.

https://www.onlinejacc.org/content/early/2020/06/16/j.jacc.2020.05.077

The study concludes that reducing saturated fat DOES NOT reduce risk of heart disease or death.

The researchers state: “The totality of available evidence does not support further limiting the intake of ...foods [high in saturated fat]”, listing whole fat dairy, unprocessed meat, eggs and dark chocolate, as amongst the foods that have been exonerated.

11/06/2020

New study finds people with type 2 diabetes who choose a low-carb diet achieve lower blood sugar and more weight loss than those who follow standard recommendations.

24/05/2020

After the UK Health Minister Matt Hancock contracted coronavirus in March of 2020, health professionals think his low-carb-induced weight loss may have helped his recovery. Find out how:

15/05/2020

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26/04/2020

Michelle Albers, an English teacher from Thomas More College, shared a beautiful, tear-jerking open letter from one of her talented students.   Durban,

25/04/2020

As the nation faces a shortage in critical equipment, authorities face the question of who gets it and who doesn’t