I travelled to Denver Colorado last week for the Low Carb Denver Conference. Three days of talks given by the big names in the Low Carb field. I had met many of them already but there were many I had yet to meet. Dr David Unwin, a GP (General Practitioner) with the Uk's National Health Service is one person I was most excited to meet. He is leading the charge in using diet as a way to reverse the big chronic diseases and obesity with less spending of drugs. His practice has the highest scores in treating diabetes while simultaneously spending the least amount on drugs! Of course you've probably guessed his secret. It's by getting his patients to eat less carbs. He created the little card I'm holding. I use it in my practice. It shows how many sugar teaspoon equivalents are in common foods. It is quite shokcki to many as a lot of foods they think are good for diabetes are really loaded with glucose. I also patterned my diet handout after his. He is also kind and soft spoken. In short he's a real role model.

Dr. Unwin's practice gets top diabetes results and spends the least amount of drugs!

Check out my discussion with hosts, Brian Lenzkes and Tro Kalayjian on there podcast. Join us as we talk about the realities and frustrations of practicing medicine today.  We review our personal journeys and discuss recent literature regarding the Low Carb lifestyle. We had a lot of fun and learned a lot from each other. Please join us for this great discussion. ​

​Once upon a time eggs were considered unhealthy. Can you believe it? Then, in 2016 the OFFICIAL government food guidelines (The Dietary Guidelines for Americans) DGA for short, changed its tune:
Specifically they said this. "Cholesterol is no longer considered a nutrient of concern." 
What new science did they consider when making this change in recommendation? Well, the science wasn't new at all.There was evidence that dietary cholesterol was harmless as far back as 1937. It took 80 years for the USDA to acknowledge it. This gave rise to the practice of eating egg white omelettes and other travesties against good nutrition.True, cholesterol can be found in the walls of diseased coronary arteries but the reason is there has nothing to do with how much cholesterol we eat.
The dietary guidelines still contain recommendations that had not been backed by science. Saturated fat is still demonized by most guidelines including the DGA in spite of evidence to the contrary. Recommendations to eat more whole grains is also extremely dubious. People serve whole grains to farm animals to fatten them for market.
Welcome back eggs! Eggs are a complete source of nutrition! An entire baby chick develops from embryo to hatch-ling within that shell. Eggs are a nutrient powerhouse. They also are a rich source choline which is tough to come by in other foods except for maybe liver. Liver is not everyone's favorite, I know.

Once upon a time eggs were considered unhealthy. Can you believe it? Then, in 2016 the OFFICIAL government food guidelines (The Dietary Guidelines for Americans) DGA for short, changed its tune:
Specifically they said this. "Cholesterol is no longer considered a nutrient of concern." 
What new science did they consider when making this change in recommendation? Well, the science wasn't new at all.There was evidence that dietary cholesterol was harmless as far back as 1937. It took 80 years for the USDA to acknowledge it. This gave rise to the practice of eating egg white omelettes and other travesties against good nutrition.True, cholesterol can be found in the walls of diseased coronary arteries but the reason is there has nothing to do with how much cholesterol we eat.
The dietary guidelines still contain recommendations that had not been backed by science. Saturated fat is still demonized by most guidelines including the DGA in spite of evidence to the contrary. Recommendations to eat more whole grains is also extremely dubious. People serve whole grains to farm animals to fatten them for market.
Welcome back eggs! Eggs are a complete source of nutrition! An entire baby chick develops from embryo to hatch-ling within that shell. Eggs are a nutrient powerhouse. They also are a rich source choline which is tough to come by in other foods except for maybe liver. Liver is not everyone's favorite, I know.

Washington Post: Why Americans are on track to eat the most eggs in nearly a half-century

Think eating low carb/keto has to cost a bundle? I doesn't have to be. Bacon, eggs, ground beef, and eggs can be had for cheap especially at Walmart.  True it's not the highest quality, grassfed, yada yada yada but cheap keto is still better than anything high carb. Matt spent $3.80 for an entire day's worth of food. Megha spent $2.50 for her day's food. Crazy cheap right? Check it out below.

Observations of diverse populations all over the world has found startling evidence. The groups with the lowest risk of death and heart disease are consuming twice of what the American Heart association considers optimal. They recommend consuming 1500 mg of sodium/day or lower. They believe americans are eating too much salt (3400 mg) now. This study, however, finds that populations with the most robust health are consuming about 5000 mg per day. This is consistent what we know of physiology. Humans evolved from ancient sea creatures. Our blood is about as salty as the ocean itself. If our diet is low in sodium our kidney actually have to expend energy to prevent it from being lost into the urine. When salt is consumed in excess of that the body needs the kidneys simply release what it doesn't require into the urine in a process places no stress on the kidneys. 
A recent review of the literature of the effect of salt restriction in heart failure found little evidence of benefit. This is kind of amazing given that every heart failure patient is strongly advised to cut salt. There science and the official recommendations are far apart.

What? Eat a steak for heart health? Red meat has been blamed for cardiovascular disease for so long. Most people are too young to remember a time when red meat wasn't considered a health threat. Yet over the years many scientific papers have failed to find actual evidence to support red meat's deadly reputation.  There is now a thriving community of people who call themselves Carnivores,. Could they really be healthy eating only meat? Many of them say so.
The article linked below is written by a cardiologist friend of mine and was published in the Houston chronicle. He lays out the case in favor of red meat. The main points are that red meat was vilified because of its saturated fat content. The link between saturated fat and heart disease has never been proven. Several major trials that were designed to test the hypothesis that diets high in saturated fats cause disease have actually failed to do so. Nonetheless it is still shunned by mainstream dietary guidelines.  Read on to find out how this came to be.

​www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/Want-a-healthier-heart-Eat-a-steak-Opinion-13239443.php