Just back from a very interesting talk by Dr Chase Webber. I don't want to write a massively long post about everything he talked about but I do urge you to visit his website www.drchasewebber.com for more info on scientific research and for more nutritional info.
He promotes a "Gatherer-Hunter diet/ Low carb, high fat diet" similar to the Paleo diet, however without the dairy restrictions. He emphasizes the need to limit our intake of carbohydrates to about 10g per meal depending on your body type. So basically, we are talking about a low carbohydrates ketogenic diet ( just googled 'ketogenic' and apparently this diet is used to treat epilepsy aswell! Dr Chase mentioned recent research into helping cancer patients with this diet aswell ).
THE 'LOW FAT' CRAZE?
We have all been brought up to believe and also influenced by the media that a low fat diet is the best, 'If you eat fat, you'll become fat'. This all started in the 1970's, whereby the 'Low fat era' begun!
With the reduction in consumption of fats and animal proteins, people swapped to higher intakes of grains, carbohydrates and sugars.However, since then, there has been significant evidence to show that obesity and diseases such as diabetes have increased drastically in countries such as the US. This is because most of the negative information about fats was based on theory/belief or simple correlations vs fact. For instance, Ancel's '6 country' study which was a 'cherry picked' graph, conveyed the message that a high fat diet was directly linked to high levels of heart diseases. However, the study left out countries such as France or Greece whereby although high levels of fat were consumed, lower levels of heart diseases were observed. The underlying message of the presentation was therefore as opposed to watching your intake of fat, enjoy your nuts, seeds, meats, eggs and dairy products but rather, watch and limit your intake of carbohydrates and sugars.
Anyways, you can read up about all of this, do your own research and make up your own opinions about fats and carbs, but one important point from this talk was that calorie controlled diets, fad diets, and silly crazes such as juice diet are all useless in the long run as a sustainable diet plan.
Another surprising point Dr Chase pointed out was the in Mauritius, only about 34% of the population are of a normal weight, leaving the other 66% as either overweight or obese, not surprising according to this diet, as our diets here tend to be made up of carbs: rice, faratas, dholl puris, dupain frire etc....
Now off to try to perfect some almond goji berry biscuits :)
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