No wonder the public is confused. Each and every time an article comes out about health and nutrition in this country, the journalists always feel the need to get a spokesperson from the Dietitians Association of Australia to add in their position. Here is a list of the the major partners of the Dietitians Association of Australia... Cambells Arnotts Nestle Unilever daa.asn.au/advertising-corporate-partners/major-partners/ Interesting to say the least...what are your thoughts on this and please share! I know there are lots of registered dietitians in this country that are frustrated with the current system and guidelines. I am looking at forming a working relationship with some like minded Australian dietitians to help implement the changes necessary to our current system. If you are a registered dietitian and want to help then please email me at info@peteevanschef and we can start this much needed journey for change. Some promising news though is that Sweden is the first western nation to reject low fat dogma in favour of low carb - high fat nutrition. Also check out the cover of this weeks Time magazine about saturated fat for more information. Will Australia be remembered as the last western nation to change their dietary guidelines? Lets hope not. Some quotes from Prof. Nyström translated into English from Dr. Eenfeldt: “I’ve been working with this for so long. It feels great to have this scientific report, and that the skepticism towards low-carb diets among my colleagues has disappeared during the course of the work. When all recent scientific studies are lined up the result is indisputable: our deep-seated fear of fat is completely unfounded. You don’t get fat from fatty foods, just as you don’t get atherosclerosis from calcium or turn green from green vegetables.” Nyström has long advocated a greatly reduced intake of carbohydrate-rich foods high in sugar and starch, in order to achieve healthy levels of insulin, blood lipids and the good cholesterol. This means doing away with sugar, potatoes, pasta, rice, wheat flour, bread, and embracing olive oil, nuts, butter, full fat cream, oily fish and fattier meat cuts. “If you eat potatoes you might as well eat candy. Potatoes contain glucose units in a chain, which is converted to sugar in the GI tract. Such a diet causes blood sugar, and then the hormone insulin, to skyrocket.” There are many mantras we have been taught to accept as truths: “Calories are calories, no matter where they come from.” “It’s all about the balance between calories in and calories out.” “People are fat because they don’t move enough.” “Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.” “Of course these are not true. This kind of nonsense has people with weight problems feeling bad about themselves. As if it were all about their inferior character. For many people a greater intake of fat means that you’ll feel satiated, stay so longer, and have less of a need to eat every five minutes. On the other hand, you won’t feel satiated after drinking a Coke, or after eating almost fat free, low-fat fruit yogurt loaded with sugar. Sure, exercise is great in many ways, but what really affects weight is diet.” (Source.)
Posted on: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 09:50:46 +0000