Another Elephant in the Room
Over the last 20 years there have been tens of thousands of studies, review papers and international scientific conferences focused on metabolic syndrome. How often can the words ‘carbohydrate restriction’ be found in the thousands of peer-reviewed papers on metabolic syndrome ? How often are these words uttered by researchers/publications at seminars about innovative treatment options for metabolic syndrome ? Truthfully: hardly ever!
This situation is so bizarre you might think copy editors are trained to to remove those words from manuscripts and speakers forced to sign contracts to avoid mentioning ‘low’ and ‘carbohydrate’ in the same sentence. How did this level of cognitive dissonance become so pervasive across the medical field? and what compels otherwise reasonable healthcare professionals to ignore a potent tool for treating metabolic syndrome; opting instead for ineffective treatments based on low fat diets plus unproven drug combinations?
The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Living: An Expert Guide to Making the Life-Saving Benefits of Carbohydrate Restriction Sustainable and Enjoyable by Stephen D. Phinney, Jeff S. Volek (2011)
This book is not a diet book, it is a book that explains the science behind the low carb diet and why it works.
Now I’m no doctor but the authors of the above are and they are trying to be heard in a world apparently deaf to the issue of over consumption of carbohydrates and the resultant metabolic syndrome that they identify as the cause of many of the health issues we face today.
This book helped me to understand something of the art and a degree of the science of low carbohydrate living and if you are serious about taking up such a course then reading this volume may be a good idea.
Whilst the edition I had was published in 2011, the issues for most part are still present today. Having myself encountered medical people that still hold closely to the idea that things like type 2 diabetes are inevitable, degenerative diseases that can only be managed by drugs, despite their being witness to my own statistically verified remission thanks to going low carbohydrate, high healthy fat and intermittent fasting. This has become for me a way of life now, not a fad diet.
I can see there for that the authors of this book still have a point of relevance in the above quote. It is not enough to say that things have moved on, so as to in some way excuse the mistakes of over 50 years of bad food advice. We need to do better.