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Oh man, busy weekend just got busier!

I listened this morning to a great talk by Georgia Ede. She just keeps getting better. She tears apart the Eat-Lancet report piece by piece.

This afternoon (so soon) is a real highlight, talks by both Gary Taubes and Dariush Mozaffarian DrPh, then followed by a panel discussion with them. Gary mentioned how he was looking forward to this in a recent interview.

The entire schedule with times in MST: https://lcd19.sched.com

I have listened to many of the talks and have been impressed with the quality of the speakers. One thing that keeps occurring to me is how the focus on doctors and their patients would lead one to assume that it is necessary to go to a doctor in order to figure out how to eat and get healthy. Most of us here have gone a different route. Wouldn't it be nice if eating could once again become a natural activity of humans that didn't need professionals to organize and administer?

In fact, if one started pursuing a healthy eating plan several years ago, there weren't many doctors who could provide the necessary guidance and dispense the knowledge required to improve health. Mostly status quo Food Pyramid and MyPlate in those days with the mantra of low fat, healthy whole grains being the norm. One of the things many have learned is that you don't need a doctor to tell you how to eat, and in fact, that advice depending who you are seeing, could be harmful. I heartily agree that the sharing of healthy eating wisdom and related messages should be widely embraced so that everyone can benefit. Seeing physicians should be only on those occasions when one suffers from a health condition not brought on by uninformed and detrimental eating. I fully subscribe to the scenarios described by Dr. William Davis in Undoctored. Don't get me wrong, it's beneficial and gratifying that the medical community is embracing healthy changes. I believe strongly that these changes need to develop into common knowledge to enable many to benefit without the need of a physician, and it appears to be happening.

Agree completely with what you have said. I didn't need a doctor to tell me I was fat and sick and I didn't need a doctor to tell me that I had to change the way I was eating in order to reverse this. I did need to do research in order to learn what would most likely be most beneficial for me. For those people who cannot do this on their own it is certainly good that there are more and more doctors out there who can help and advise them but for me doctors have been a distraction not a benefit. I plan to continue this way unless and until something medical arises for which my own efforts are insufficient. I would hate to see this grass roots movement of people taking back their health and their power to be usurped by the professionals.

Isn't it ironic how so many doctors are fat and sick themselves and yet they know the 'right' way to good health
Don't do as I do, do as I say do!

Every time I set foot in a hospital, the sheer number of seriously overweight employees there just shocks me.



I also remember sitting in the waiting room of a cardiologist's office one time several years ago, and the staff there was even heavier- I mean every single person working in the front office appeared to be morbidly obese. A few of the nurses in the back were not overweight, but the ones who were normal sized were still quite young, and obviously their hearthealthy low fat diet hadn't ruined their metabolisms... yet.

Lots of great talks. Dr Eades gave a really interesting talk on something he called the incretin effect. In summary he reviewed the science which showed that the structure of the food we eat effects our insulin response to the food even when blood glucose level remain the same. The more highly processed the food, that is the more the original cell structure of the food is broken down, the greater the insulin response. In other words the insulin response to a whole apple is less than the insulin response to apple sauce which in turn is less than the insulin response to apple juice. It is an argument for eating the least processed foods possible to keep our insulin level as low as possible.

Everything that I've had time to watch live has been great, but I still have heaps more to get through. So glad that Diet Doctor have captured it all.