Recent readers of
my journal will know that as of late, I've been quietly working on exploring options for the advocacy of LCHF here in New Zealand. Well, in an exciting new development this last week, I have just secured a personal appointment with New Zealand's highest political authority in the field: our Minister for Health, Dr David Clark.
I have a few weeks between now and then to compile and present my proposal, and to that end I've already begun combing the internet for as many quality resources as I can find, around which I can build a meaningful case. I intend to lean on/make references to organisations such as the Public Health Collaboration in the UK, the Nutrition Coalition in the States and Canada's Change the Food Guide movement. There will of course also be plenty of links to various publications - websites, books, videos - from a wide cross-section of international authors: Taubes, Teicholz, Volek, Phinney, Lustig, Noakes, Malhotra, Schofield and so on.
My aim is to keep things rooted in science, to let the facts speak for themselves without the need to dress them up in propaganda. I want to keep the emotion out of the argument; I can imagine it will be harder to keep the emotion out of the delivery of the argument, but that part's all down to me.
Where the rest of us come in is this. As much as I can back myself to put something like this together, I'd be disappointed if I were to later discover some useful points that I could have included but missed out. So if anyone here has any ideas on information that could be useful for this little project of mine, I'd be grateful if you could share them here. If you were in my position, what facts would you want to present to someone with the authority to affect real change?
I'm in the very early planning stages right now, but as things begin to take a more solid form in the coming weeks, I may ask for help in filling in what I may identify as particular gaps in my proposal. But for now, I'll look at anything in general that anyone has to offer.
Many thanks in advance.