Tue, Dec-11-01, 20:54
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Plan: pregnant so maintenance level
Stats: 136/122/---
BF:
Progress: 89%
Location: Christchurch, New Zealand
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Thanks for posting that article Wa'il. I live in New Zealand, and have to agree with their statistics. Having worked in an acute care hospital it is very sad to see all the health problems that people are having at younger and younger ages. And knowing what I know now I put it all down to a diet high in carbs- especially highly processed carbs and trans fats, you should see all the advertising there is about how healthy margarine is, it's enough to make you sick! oh, it does, doesn't it?
What makes me really sad is the number of overweight children here. I feel like going up to their parents and telling them about low carb, but I don't think it'd be very well recieved.
Having worked along side doctors in hospital, I can honestly say that they don't have a clue about the health benefit's of low carb, so how can they tell their patients? All they know is what they've been taught is "right". It's the same with Dietitians. I had the funniest time a while ago talking to a dietitian about low carb, and low carb eating for diabetics. She thought I was mad, no dangerous, to even suggest the concept of low carb for diabetics. Unfortunately Dr Bernsteins Diabetes solution is not available here, for sale or in the library, so I haven't read it, but would LOVE to one day.
When will the people in power decide to acknowledge the facts and share them with the rest of the population? The media loves to tell everyone here how dangerous low carbing is. TThere was a documentary on a while ago with 6 NZ'ers and Lesley Kenton (?) helping them to do varying degrees of low carb, ALL had improved blood work and lost weight, but for a few weeks after the program was aired we were bombarded with newspapers, magazines and TV telling us how bad it is, and just eat low fat, you'll be fine. It'd be funny if I weren't so sad.
Well enough of me rambling on, it just makes me so frustrated!!
I'll just have to spread the word myself...
Angela
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