Dr. James Muecke - 'Blinded by Sugar'
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- Опубликовано: 10 авг 2020
- Dr James Muecke AM is a South Australian based ophthalmologist and visiting consultant at Royal Adelaide and Women’s and Children’s Hospitals. Dr. Muecke graduated with Honours from the University of Adelaide Medical School in 1987. Following his internship, James lived and worked as a doctor in Africa and subsequently as an eye surgeon in the Middle East, battling malaria, wild animals, and rebel soldiers. He founded Sight For All in 2008, turning his boundless energy into a fight against blindness in the Aboriginal communities of Australia and some of the poorest countries of Asia and Africa.
Dr. Muecke's commitment to social impact and humanitarian endeavours has earned him a string of awards. He received an Outstanding Service to the Prevention of Blindness award by the Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology in 2011, a Member of the Order of Australia in 2012, a South Australian Community Achievement Award in 2013, the Australian Medical Association’s President’s Leadership Award in 2013, Ernst & Young’s Social Entrepreneur for Australia in 2015 and The University of Adelaide’s Distinguished Alumni Award in 2019.
In 2020, Dr. Muecke was named Australian of the Year and vowed to use his platform to advocate for measures to tackle preventable blindness caused by diabetes. He has kindly allowed us to re-publish this video to further this fight. 
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This talk needs to be put on every last TV channel.
You're 100% right, but it would be labelled as a conspiracy theory and he would be ridiculed by so called experts in the mainstream media.
@@cameron7603 I doubt.
This should be shown in ALL Australian schools, year after year and time and time again.
My parents both are Diabetic. My two brothers also Diabetic.
I am not a Diabetic because I choose not to eat all types of sugar.
I am on IF & LCHF for 2 years already.... Thanksgiving I found ways to avoid Diabetic & Metabolic Syndrome
I did not understand what T2D was until Jan 2020. After getting neuropathy in my arms and legs waking up in pain, my research lead me to Dr Jason Fung. Everything made sense. I made drastic changes in my lifestyle immediately. Went LCHF keto with IF then transitioned onto carnivore after a few months after finding Dr Ken Berry and Dr Paul Saladino. I am now in a much happier place and am helping my family turn their health around before it's too late.
We call him the BLESSED JASON 🤣
Would you still be classed as type 2 now?
Did the same thing but 3yrs ago. I wish I went carnivore earlier though.
According to the 'Mastering diabetes' guys high carb low fat, low protein is the way to go. listen to this bit here: ruclips.net/video/enIvfC985U8/видео.html
Very powerful presentation. This should be mandatory viewing for all schoolchildren and healthcare professionals!
and for all the corrupt govt agencies that greatly mislead with their guidelines, and don't have the the courage or honesty to correct their guidelines
@@howardhill3395 True! The guidelines and the medical field that propagates it have done far more than a candy bar or soda. Taxing Coca Cola and subsidizing apple juice while having the guidelines that got us here remain makes little sense.
Thank you. Thrilled that Australia has acknowledged this message through honouring you as our Australian of 2020. May your message get through. And thank you for allowing this broadcast . All the best.
This was my life. Not any more. Happy healthy and thriving!!
This was a very informative show. My heart goes out to the man who lost his eye sight. Diabetes is absolutely preventable .
You get it! You have put it all together as to what is causing a world-wide epidemic of chronic diseases and early deaths. It’s too much sugar and refined carbs in our diet. We cause it - we literally eat ourselves sick. But the good news is, we can quickly stop the progression of these chronic diseases, regain good health, and prolong our lives and healthspan just by making a lifestyle change in our diet. Thank you for presenting this important message.
I can only imagine what shocking health I'd be in today if I hadn't switched to a keto diet a year ago. Lately I've been waning and yesterday I cracked and ate half a can of condensed milk mixed with a ripe lemon (same as lemon meringue filling), and *the headache* I got for hours afterwards was a dark reminder that sugar is not my friend. Been ages since I had a headache, unlike pre-keto, when they were every other day.
we all "fall" at some point or other. The "falls" become less and less the longer you're eating keto. I think our "tastes" change. Keep on keeping on!! That's the important part.
I would be careful staying on keto permanently, I tried it for nearly a year and felt great and would recommend it but then my mood started to deteriorate in time until I felt emotionally flat. It affects everyone differently I guess. Point is it has side effects not everyone can ignore. Smashing sweets straight off Keto should give you a headache though. Just plain bread tasted like cake to me coming off, I won't do no carb again though.
A raw lemon in pure coconut cream give JUST AS MUCH PLEASURE. Try it.
@@chinogambino9375 I've been low carb for 1 1/2 years ..Not srictly keto because i don't count carbs but eat low carb 98% of the time.. I also do intermittent fasting so eat once or twice a day depending on if I am hungry or not. When i feel like it i have a medium or high carb day. This is not rocket science and not written in stone. adjust to what works for you- same for recipes if its not for you change it up. I had type 2 diabetes for last 15 years and was headed to major health issues. Since turning to low carb all my indicators have dropped to normal.. lowered Hba1c- 35, lowered cholestrerol , trygliserides down to 0.7 .. I am no longer taking metformin , losarten or statins..and can eat what i like at parties because it is a one off.
@@chinogambino9375 what if your mood had nothing to do with keto and more to do with other lifestyle factors? Why is this the only thing you're picking on? Please discuss
This is one of the best videos I've watched!
I was told I had T2D feb 2019 A1c 10.1
In 4 months of keto. A1c down to 5.3
Mar 2020 I want to mostly carnivore. Except for occasional pickle or asparagus. I've lost 55lbs with another 40lb to go.
Wish I had known years ago about this way of eating. I'm a 49 yr old female. My partner tried being vegan for a year before I was diagnosed, but didn't feel good. They started eating keto/carnivore when they saw how well I was doing. My partner had no major health issues.
I have the same experience. All the advise one gets is mostly nonsense! It's not rocket science and they cured diabetes over 100 years ago, when it still was a rare disease, by putting people on carnivore diets. My weight never really bothered me but I was told that it was unhealthy to be fat so I figured I needed to do something about this. I tried losing weight with a number of diets, going to the gym, walking, swimming, cycling etc nothing has really worked or was sustainable. Turned out I was insulin resistant! This made me fat and unhealthy! When I realised this and the dangers of being insulin resistant then reversing this became my main focus. A lowcarb-highfat lifestyle in combination with keto and intermittent fasting restores ones insulin sensitivity. If one focuses on this then weight loss, increased energy levels and a more active lifestyle comes naturally. From BMI 40 to now BMI 24!
No dispute.. but why is your avatar a horse?
I was pre-diabetic 3 years ago. I went keto immediately (still am as the food is actually great for feeling properly full, and not having constant hunger) and reversed that diagnosis. I'm not willing to risk eyes and limbs on highly processed food from companies that put profit over everything else (this includes Govts who take ..donations.. from said companies)
Same here. Luckily a stranger told me the secret abt Keto/LCHF, otherwise I would hv followed the official carboholic approach recommended by my Doctor. Now 15 kg lighter and feels 40 yrs younger.
We need more doctors like you, thank you. Hope your message goes viral.
This is a very powerful video. The darkened background and the way he talks sets a very serious tone and it helped me.
Thank you guys for doing what you do. 👍
For me, the Keto diet works because I've made it about cutting OUT, not cutting DOWN. I don't "reduce" the amount of sugar, flour, high-carb fruit and root veg; I've completely eliminated them. This way the addiction is broken (or, at least, held at bay).
I have too. You can't just have 'a bit of cocaine or heroine'. Sugar is just as addictive
Absolutely , years ago I did work in a rehab clinic and see first hand what an addiction does to a human being , it's horrible and here I am trying to control this , my Dad uses to cry because he cannot take sugar with his coffee, now I realize than he was sugar addicted ... so far I am pleased because this is my first week drinking coffee without sugar and feeling calm . hope to clean my fridge and my habits.
@@filadelfiagraw4363 bravo!
My vision is affected too from T2D it's reversing nicely now though, thanks to my cutting out sugar and carbs. Thank you for this powerful, inspirational and illuminating talk Dr Mueck. God bless you.
Thank you so much for all the work all you doctors on low carb down-under do to help us get control of our TTD, and our lives. When I was diagnosed with type two diabetes I couldn’t believe it. I spent many years in denial, and it seems I’m not alone. Many tt diabetics are in denial for a very long time. It’s easy to tell yourself it’s not a problem, or that you will beat it, or even that you don’t really have all the while continuing the same diet that led you to type two diabetes in the first place.
My beef is this- I was on blood pressure meds, and statins, and I was in a hugely stressful job, which led to my packing on about 25kilos. I had major depression and was on medication for this, but my anxiety levels were debilitating, almost crippling. This happened over a number of years, yet not one doctor, while writing my scripts, and observing my weight gain ever told me what was going on in my body, and what would be the most likely outcome if nothing changed. I was never tested for, or told, that I was pre-diabetic. My insulin and cortisol levels were never tested, but I’m pretty sure they would have been through the roof. I was under huge amounts of stress at work, and was constantly anxious. With high bp and elevated cholesterol, plus gaining a lot of weight in a short period of time and having regular visits with my gp for monitoring and scripts why did no-one think to test me until it was too late. I was unaware then that excess weight, high blood pressure and high cholesterol were leading inexorably to ttd. I had no idea. The first I knew anything more serious was amiss I already had type two diabetes. I was 44. There is no history of any family member ever having diabetes, so I never suspected. I feel pretty let down by those doctors who didn’t level with me before it was too late to avoid it. They knew. Why didn’t they warn me?
A brilliant talk doctor, thank you very much.
This video would be very valuable in all schools. Great teaching tool.Thank you Dr. Muecke
You can't even buy a decen't snack in a hospital cafeteria.
Toni or school.☹️
true, and damn the things they serve to hospital patients...
Excellent presentation. I wish he had added hospitals to the list of institutions that should remove soda pop machines.
the IV bags for many patients is Dextrose sugar water...
@@petervilla1816 he said government run, and he's in australia so that includes hospitals there :) but I agree
I am 6 months into Keto and very healthy 69 years old. I was never close to Diabetes, but for years I knew I had to cut back on sugars. But they are so addictive, I binge ate cookies. My body seemed to be able to handle it. I knew nothing about fatty liver, or insulin reistance until 6 months ago. I was glad to see my body bounce back so quickly, and it can handle around 100 g of carbs a day and stay in ketosis. Ketosis keeps giving me energy when out for hours golfing like nothing else. What got me out of sugar was a video about heart attack by Ivor Cummins. I was thinking I should do everything I can to avoid a heart attack. That timeline seemed to be Keto, and although I did not know about many of my health problems then, I have become aware of them as old systems have been kicking in online. I never thought I would be mountain hiking or jogging again for a long time now but I can do both with great stamina now. Don't ever think you are too old or your doctor tells you you should not go on Keto, your life is in your hands, exercise is NOT optional, cheers fellow awoken humans.
Cheers Jim! Love Ivor Cummins. Have you seen Dr Chris Knobbe talk about vegetable & seed oils, big time important ?
Frightening. Brilliant video. My husband is a T2D with 22 years. I've been preaching to him in vain all that time, but now I've given up and am concentrating on my own health. He refuses to eat healthily, lies to the doctors, his A1c is 11, and he doesn't realise the doctors have given up on him too. You can't help those who won't help themselves. We eat separate meals now, as I refuse to eat white bread, biscuits and buns for every meal. I was headed toward diabetes until I coped on. People have to want to do it.
It is a hard thing when being strong can also come with such sadness. You are a brave lady.
So sorry about this, my grandmother died of complications of diabetes, wasn’t nice to watch. Another important related topic, if you haven’t already heard, is the effects of vegetable & seed oils on the body. Look up Dr Chris Knobbe on this!
Wow. Powerful message. Thanks so much. Poor Neil. Glucose, glycated, is so very damaging. I do chronic disease care plans and I make sure my patient's know why glucose must be kept low. Diabetes is beaten by keeping the insulin and glucose low.
I think doctors need to do an entire year on nutrition with a master’s thesis proving which dietary needs prevent diabetes; the gateway to all other chronic diseases
If the dieticians and nutritionists I've met working in health-care are anything to go by, their education needs a complete overhaul. Since they don't seem to know what they're doing either, just following the SAD (standard australian/American diet) guidelines which appear to be flawed, lots of carb/'Fibre'
Went to GP about my very thin sons diet. He lives on sugar. Answer? She said "EAT AS MUCH JUNK FOOD AS YOU WANT and eat a few vegetables" I was horrified expecting a referral to a dietician. My son came out and said "I like that doctor!!" I thought "Yet another stupid doctor.....yet another....a nd there has been so many!!"
I’ve been a type 1 diabetic since 1970. Diabetic retinopathy hit in the 1980s. Changed my diet to low-carbohydrate some years ago. I haven’t had the retinopathy get worse in maybe 15 years: no additional laser burns needed since then. I’m hoping I can keep my sight, which is adequate for reading and driving.
Are you on Keto or low carb? Do you eat carrots, beats...? Will be very thankful for an answer.
That was the best video on this subject I've seen! Last fall I had a couple of short blind spells that completely freaked me out and almost instantly discovered and started the ketogenic diet which eliminates sugar and carbs...I've lost 80 pounds and most of my health issues are gone...my eyes have fewer floaters and I expect that will improve and take more time. Haven't had any more blind spells...
The only thing missing is a discussion of how "control" of T2D with pharmaceuticals is just a deferral of the inevitable. Excellent presentation. Agree there should be pictures of gangrenous limbs on soda bottles. This should be taught in elementary schools.
3 LAB TESTS YOU CAN USE TO SEE IF YOU ARE BECOMING DIABETIC/INSULIN RESISTANT:
1.
Check your blood sugar levels at home using a glucometer. Check 1-1.5 hr after eating a meal. If it is > 7.8 mmol/L you are becoming insulin resistant. You don't want it to be even close to 7.8 mmol/L. If it is over 7.8 mmol/L you need to look into the Keto diet and Intermittent Fasting.
2.
Get a C-Peptide test from your Dr or a lab. Normal range is 0.8-3.85 ng/mL. Even if it is only 0.1 of a point high, that is serious and you need to start a Keto diet. It is a better test than an insulin test as it's more stable.
3.
Get your Dr to do a HbA1C test. Normal is 6.4%
I wish I could give this video a thousand thumbs up!
Thank you for talking about this very crucial topic and sharing your own very personal perspective. I wish more doctors could do the same!
Excellent video Dr - thank you! This message needs to be broadcast all over the US.
Great,hard hitting truth! Thank you
What about also mentioning the food served to patients in hospital. As a diabetic I was given oats, milk, orange juice and yoghurt with added sugar for breakfast. I asked for a diabetic friendly meal and that was it.
Agree, it’s disgusting what they feed people
The best diabetes presentation I have ever watched. Kudos to Dr. James Muecke. Loved bringing Neil into the story and also the impactful slides.
All of us know a Neil where the bad things always happen to someone else.I know a guy who had a stroke and is now paralyzed in half his body. Estimate he is around 50. Another guy, again like Neil has been driving and had to have his daughter grab the wheel because of temporary blindness. The entire lower part of one leg is completely black but he loves his carbohydrates and says they provide the energy he needs for his job.
High impact images like those in your presentation are needed to bring home the seriousness of this disease. I know several diabetics including myself and all the others prefer the easy way; medications rather than diet and are turning a reversible disease into a progressive disease: not for me!
Well done sir! What a great factual easy to understand presentation, showing some of the history & manipulation behind how we came to our current sorry dietary situation. I've low carbed & intermittent fasted for years now. Chronologically getting older, physiologically & psychologically feeling younger. Ditch sugar to feel amazing!
I wish everyone had that attitude!
Thank you for sharing this very important information with us all. Take care & stay safe too everybody. 😷❤🙂🐶
6th ' A' is for Alcohol....sugar hidden in that too. During this Covid shananigans I am horrified at my increasing alcohol intake😱 I am not a big drinker but jeeezz I need to get back to full Keto. i daresay we all lapse but this video was a great kick up my bee'hind. Thank you... and much love to Mr Hansel and his family. Bless you. x
Me too put my covid stone on...through the 6th A
@@gillwil 2021 will be better I'm sure😁 👍🏽🤞🏽
Thank you, it is talks like this that turned me around 6 months ago, I was a 120 kg insulin dependent type 2 diabetic and followed the instructions of my doctor and dietitian and just seemed to get worse, searching RUclips for an answer I found the Keto diet, lost 22kg to date and no longer require insulin and my sugar levels are mid normal every day, they were 22 when I started and are now between 5 and 7 every day. More people need to know that the diets our doctors are prescribing are floored.
Woohoo good for you. You should also look up Dr Chris Knobbe talk on vegetable & seed oils, very eye opening important info.
Thank you for creating this.
Give your grand kids a great xmas present. Get their parents to watch this before they go out and buy those fizzy drinks for xmas.
Brilliant video...please do one on processed seed oils..🖖
Now you're talking! But he wants to stay alive!
Start fasting now , 3 days at a time between meals , look up Dr. Jason Fung on fasting , as he deals with diabetes patients by fasting in a clinic in Canada
Dr Fungs advice changed my life
His book saved my life.
Dr Jason Fung changed my life too
I love Dr Fung, he's my hero, his books changed my life too
Most keto advocates are advising us to get our diet and body to the fat-adapted stage before beginning intermittent fasting, to increase success and wellbeing.
A true MASTERPIECE! Thank you!
Wow thank you Sir, will save this video and watch it often as a reminder
Didn't get any notification for my eye check this year. Luckily I dont eat refined carbs or fizzy drinks anymore. Just meat fat eggs fish and dairy mostly in the form of unpasteurized cheese and butter.
I'm off the metformin and statins for nearly two years.
I'll share. I always thought sugar should be banned
One of the best videos I've seen on this subject.
I needed this video 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿from 🇺🇸
Let’s levy a tax on any product with refined sugar in any form that the Manufacturer pays which goes directly to the treatment of diabetics just like the USA did with tobacco and lung cancer!!
Hi James, Thanks for the warnings. I too love my ice cream but now make it myself to control the % of sugar but also to remove vegetable fats which are an increasing constituent of the manufactured crud.
Thanks for the information. I struggle for 14 years to get a correct diagnosis for my eye problem. Kept being told I had age-related macular degeneration. This did not make sense to me. I finally challenged the eye doc who finally sent me to a retina specialist. I got a diagnosis and it was not age-related macular degeneration!! Saw two more ophthalmologists for yearly check-ups. Thought their exams were not thorough enough, so a saw another doc this year. I used to be a librarian and now I cannot even read print books so I have given up and listen to audiobooks. It would have been nice if the first ophthalmologist had given me an accurate diagnosis. (she even told me my eyes were 20/20 but I knew this was not true. My eyes have never been 20/20.) I have listened to other RUclips videos that were not even available back in 2002 when I first noticed a problem. Hope people are inquisitive enough to search out answers. I am lucky enough to have a large screen desktop computer so I can watch RUclips videos by doctors like you.
What was your correct diagnosis, can I ask?
Well presented and summed up ... Thank you, Dr. Muecke.
Here in the UK, our packaging shows the breakdown of fats, carbs and sugars etc. The products containing good and natural fats are highlighted in red. Winds me up. We won’t change this, there’s too much money involved. Educate your kids and let them change their future.
ugh exactly! The traffic lights they put on the front of the packaging is awful and misleading. Why not slap carbs on the front with a massive red mark. For me it's easy to be keto but not so easy when others don't understand and don't see it the way I do. They're in disbelief and say sugar isnt that bad, "why not treat yourself every once in while?" you see.. thing is, I have no resistance to sugar and can easily walk past carb aisles in supermarket without wishing to have any of it. They don't see that. and dont get me started with people saying you'll get ketoacidosis, I don't even have high insulin. 19 and doing keto as a lifestyle, I hope to maintain, and I like a good challenge. This is all irrelavent im sorry but these comments, including yours have so much truth behind them!
I agree. Grass fed dairy shouldn’t be red!
Very powerful message... I think you drove it home with that personal testimony. I know someone who died from T2D and had to undergo leg amputations all the while he got sicker and sicker... I felt sad seeing this... BTW: Have you seen Dr. Chris Knobbe? He is also an eye doctor and talks about the dangers of vegetable oils (a.k.a. Seed or Plant oils) causing Macular Degeneration... which is also part of the processed foods and so add that to the dangers of sugar.
Sugar and seed oils. Yep! The perfect combo on your way to disease and death.
Yes, I just seen Chris Knobbe’s talk a week ago, he really makes it sink in, even more serious than sugar, I was dragging my butt starting keto, well not anymore, big time change, gonna eat like my great grandparents!
Excellent 👌 right on target.
I hope we can figure out how to get everyone to attention to this problem. Many ARE suger and prossessed food addicts and don't want to hear it.
and are in denial and are following the herd. This world man, sometimes I dont wanna be apart of it.. lets reflect on past mistakes, start thinking how to change and then actually take action. and I'm glad this video exists.
Very powerful message and great advice.
Very well presented and to the point.
Excellent video. Should be shown in schools for young generations to learn the dangers of sugars
Wow doctor thank you so much for sharing your information. I'm diabetic 2 is going well with me since changed my food.
I stopped consuming sugar 7 years ago no drinking soda anymore or eating sweet, this really shocking. I'm also avoiding CARBS just eat healthy fresh green vegetables daily. I'm appreciate it.
excellent - thank you!
Great delivery on a good topic.
Sweets are a treat that should be eaten rarely and in small quantities - a small slice of birthday and Christmas cake, mother’s Christmas pudding, apart from that avoid sugar like the plague. Control your fruit intake and check labels to avoid sugar in foods. Eat Keto.
If this isn't a wake up call I don't know what is
Think of this. Wheat and all grains have a higher glicemic index than table sugar and Snickers bars.
Excellent presentation and information
Doctor...as Australian of The Year, is the Australian Government listening to your message? Without their driving of our health, it’s only those of us who have listened to your message, and that of other enlightened people, that will benefit. I have greatly benefited already, but my family won’t improve their health because their GP doesn’t believe the research, and State Medical Registration Boards simply will not allow Doctors to adopt the common sense principles of health through better diet. I applaud your efforts, and congratulate you on the award...but I beg you to hound State and Federal Governments on this issue. Without their participation, our children and grandchildren are doomed to miserable lives.
Thank you. Just just shared this.
Great talk Dr. Muecke.
Timely reminder for me to put the reminder in my phone as my husband got his eye screening review invite. He is remission but they still follow up.
Great video
I lost 45lbs. Now 112lbs at 5 feet tall. I'm still addicted to sugar and chocolate but refuse to eat it. I cant have refined carbs in house though because I just can't resist them. Do what you have to do. Throw them away
Great talk but didn't mention the toxic seed oils
Very good information
Oh wow, this video needs to be shown in every school, to students, parents, teachers; in every workplace, every office; every university medical school; every hospital; every nursing home... and regularly on TV.
I loved the cigarette-style labels he showed on the soft drink/soda bottles - please make that happen !
Having said that, all of us in the low-carb area know the change won't come from government and industry - it's going to come from us - we're the ones who are going to (have to) make the changes and eventually government and industry will have to change (for the better) to keep their profits coming in.
Sweets are given as presents meaning Love... This is a huge mistake. How can we Stop this?
bontschie Yes you‘re so right! It starts with the very first birthday cake. But we can make a Keto birthday cake with almond flour and monkfruit (or Stevia, erythritol) 🤓
exactly
Stop giving sweets.
this should be shown world wide on prime time TV. My father long dead was against any form sugar and smoking ( my mother was a smoker til 76 when she had a serious health scare) He was away ahed of his time and I never smoked and haven't taken sugar other than whole fruit for more than50 years. He set a great example
I did experience blurring in my eye vision few years ago ... I was not full diabetic , I was pre diabetic but the experience was scare me.
Low carbs keto help me to fix vision , took almost 2 month for my vision back to normal ...
Please share!
Nicely said DR James Muecke . The battle for the people to open their minds and accept change for the better health of everyone . Low carb is the answer . Mostly people think they cannot do it .. That's the addiction .
Your strategy is logical but when you figure who is in control of so much of the world around us it becomes a pipe dream. The problem has many angles especially the horrific actions of the medical community who becomes the lemmings of big pharma. How do you turn around a world that is in the hands of vested interests? One video at a time!!!
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And one soul at a time! If we can't change society, we can still hope to influence the people around us!
Meanwhile, nutrionists keep recommending whole grains.
heart healthy wholegrains they call it 😅
You got to do your own research and take charge of your health. 🥦
@@matthiasgrunwald2028 but then you'll be too informed more so than the professionals 😅
Low carbs and sugar the essence of a keto diet. It’s not just to lose weight but has huge health benefits. Thanks
I have type 2 diabetes. I don’t understand removing candy and soda because We SEE that is sugar. We know to stay away from it however with 75% of added sugar in most foods in the United States what’s hurting us is the unseen sugar that’s been added to foods that should have never had sugar added in the first place. Like catsups, tomato soup, tomato sauce, salad dressing, etc. I read everything and it gets very depressing. If sugar is as addictive as a drug then ban manufacturers from adding it or provide a line of products without it. We will never get a grip on type 2 diabetes unless we start at the source and request manufacturers to not add sugar in our foods. Of course that won’t happen. Big business in the sugar market.
If you haven’t seen Dr Chris Knobbe talk on vegetable & seed oils yet, this is big time important, this will change your life, really important!
I lost a small segment of vision in my right eye. The consultant could not explain why the blood vessels there had burst. He should have known about this. At the time I was fat from comfort eating to deal with the agony and lack of sleep resulting from my spinal cord being damaged by a clumsy anaesthetist. I had received rather useless advice after a heart attack so I set out to find out for myself what to do. But I was flying blind. None of the available advice made sense. Reduce calories and go for long walks? Sure. Lose a few pounds then stasis. So cut the calories again. Result: quit the diet. It took me years to find out what to do. First I found the Starting Strength method of weight training, then I found out about low carb diets and fasting. Now, at 69, I am stronger than most younger men and have a 30" waist (and it's still shrinking). I have passed on my knowledge to my obese GPs.
Wow great job. If you haven’t seen Dr Chris Knobbe talk about vegetable & seed oils yet look him up. Amazing info to take you even further on your good health adventure.
I eat very well. Real food, low carb, high protein & healthy fat... but, I drink alcohol. I need to slow my roll on the alcohol.
I agree that the Traffic Light System of food labelling on all packaged products would be a big improvement on the current 5 Stars Food Rating System in Australia.
I have declared a war to sugar 19 months ago. Go keto!!
Excellent presentation. I have shared this everywhere. Please do the same. Trying to help others one at a time!!
My dad "picks" on me because I won't eat sweets with sugar (I do have a few here and there with alternative low GI sweeteners). He says you can have that or do you want that and I say no, it has sugar in it. He'll chuckle and I've started saying, you laugh but it'll kill me. He shakes his head and laughs. He's known I was diagnosed type 2 for years and I am now diet controlled and no longer on medicine and I've told him since he's moved in with us. The other day my sister brought him a dessert (he LOVES sweets) and we went through it again and again after I said it would kill me he laughed again and I said again that I'm type 2 and it will kill me if I eat that stuff. Apparently it got through to him a little and he said, you have the diabetes? I didn't know that. smh Years ago he was diagnosed with pre diabetes and my mom had him eating "healthy" I guess it did help him enough just not eating sugar so much but he was still eating all the carbs and bread, now my mom is gone and he has CLL and isn't taking any treatment so part of me feels awful when he eats sugar but the other part of me knows this is his choice to eat that crap. He even tried to tell me sugar was good for us. Whenever he eats sugar or carbs he says, mmm, that's good. Anyway this long story to say that this is how I view sugar, as something that will kill me because even though a little won't, continuing on a lifetime of eating it will and I don't seem to be able to control it and eat only a little so I have to view it as poison.
You don’t know how common your experience is!! I’m surrounded by people who are sick and dying from metabolic syndrome and they INSIST that sugar is good. I finally backed off and say, Well, not for me! But it breaks my heart to see them feeding this poison to their children and setting them up for a lifetime of disease!
Granny Squares & Wagon Wheels addicts have many ways to justify their addiction. It tough because you really deal with the addict instead of your dad. Often others fall into the enabling role. Be well.
Tell him he's digging himself into an early grave. He sounds like he's teasing you, but you know better 😊 I undestand your technique to stay away from sugar. Demonising a particular thing though might keep you worrying about it, so maybe focus on the real things that are good instead so you can feel joy from feeling you're doing the right thing without sugar. Hope you're okay 🙏🏽
You are not alone. Almost all of us who understand the truth are also dealing with loved ones with this addiction. That's what it is - an addiction. It activates the same dopamine reward pathway that cocaine does. When we don't eat sugar we get withdrawal symptoms (aka keto flu). Purpose of sugar in nature is to fatten us up to be able to survive winter. But now we eat it from the moment we wake up to the moment we sleep. And even we eat it in the middle of the night. It truly is a drug disguised as and promoted by the government as heart healthy foods.
@@Barbaralee1205 I knew it was bad from day one. I didn't act until having turned 18.
It's time to change official guidelines and educate people on what health really is.
I started intermittent fasting and keto 50 days ago. I feel so much better, and lost 15 kgs. My weight was getting out of control, and I was miserable. I thought to myself "it's my fault, I'm not strong enough to resist, I'm failure". I wasn't. I just didn't have the correct information.
Now I do, and I'm worried about my friends and family that still don't understand how our bodies work. They're still going "low fat" and high carbs...
Good luck everyone ! Stay happy, stay healthy ! :)
Most people probably have no idea how much money sugar corporations pay to congressmen to ensure nothing changes in policy.
Im an atheist but hallelujiah man! Hope this happens in my lifetime.
Read Wheat Belly by Dr. William Davis. That will change your life for the better.
Keto diet was my wake up call , “ sugar , nonononono any more.
Sadly our governments are not interested in cutting our healthcare costs. Of they were they would be hard hitting the advertising industry with all the false advertising. The science has been around for many decades. Belinda Fettke has an amazing video on RUclips detailing the influence of certain organizations on the food pyramid which pushes high carb. Most people fail to understand that Carbohydrates are made up of starches and sugars and the starches eventually break down to sugar.
Sweeteners are dangerous as sugar too ....
Diabetes is a slow, relentless and cruel death that is easily avoided and can be cured if caught early on.
That was an awesome and deep speech although I think he should replace "sugar" for "sugar and carbohydrates". Unfortunately most people do not associate sugar with carbs. Even the food labeling makes that distinction, yet both elicit the exact same reaction in our body. What we need are bold doctors who are willing to smear the overwhelming evidence on people's face. He is still afraid to do that. What a shame.
We gave up our smokes for sugar.
There needs to be dietary support for ex smokers.