is to realize that Medicine is no longer about keeping people healthy. Take a pill for this or that, then take another and another for the side effects of the first ones, instead of eating real food. The ADA, AMA, AHA and other organizations continue to prescribe a diet high in carbs and processed foods instead of informing people that a high fat, medium protein, very low carb diet will result in a much reduced incidence of type 2 diabetes and other diseases.
Doctors in other countries are figuring out that we've been had. Here's a video by a doctor from Sweden who's getting it right and explains well how we were duped into our current diets and how it's killing us:
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Read Gary Taube's "Good Calories, Bad Calories" for an in-depth look at the research into obesity and disease. Or you could read the more "user friendly" version "Why we get fat".
I had type 2 diabetes and cured it by doing the opposite of what my doctor advised when it became apparent that following her advice was only making things worse. Her solution was to continue to eat plenty of carbs and just take more and more medication. I fired her and now I'm well and take no medications, including no medications for high blood pressure as my blood pressure also came down with the weight loss that resulted from eating a high fat (good fats only), low carb diet.
The usual suspects on DU who always come into these threads to try to discredit anyone questioning the old and tired advice from the medical and pharmaceutical industries will soon arrive. They will cite the ancient, discredited "calories in, calories out crap and try to tell you that the first law of thermodynamics proves you can't eat more calories than you exercise away if you want to remain the same weight as proof that you must eat a low calorie diet to lose weight. The laws of thermodynamics only apply in closed systems and our bodies are not closed systems. We're very complicated machines, not a simple box.
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