86Thousand400: Something to Digest

- "Experts" who told us that energy dense high fat foods cause obesity were under influence from the US government in its desire to change the nature of the foods eaten

- Sadly the results of that experiment are now all too obvious. The experiment failed. It is time to acknowledge the error and to start healing the world

The South African Experiment

- The 127 subjects reported a total weight loss of 1900kg. The average weight loss (15kg) far exceeds that usually reported in expensive clinical trials typically involving the High Carb Low Fat (HCLF) diet under intensive medical supervision and costing many millions of dollars. Well motivated subjects can achieve in the real world even without supervision. Banting is remarkable for weight loss and health.

- Banting is far more effective than HCLF

Myth: You are fat because you are a bad person

- People are often unsuccessful in losing wight on a"healthy" HCLF diet

- With Banting one guy lost 85kg in 28 weeks, another lost 25kg and cured all his conditions so he no longer requires the use of his medications. Another lost 45kg

- After adopting Banting weight loss was greatest when he exercised the least

Banting acts by reducing or removing Hunger

- Symptoms of hunger were dramatically reduced or absent when Banting

- Billy Tosh and Brian Bergman, lost 85 and 75kg respectively

- Efficacy of Banting appears to be its capacity to produce satiation despite a reduced energy intake. In contrast, the hypocaloric HCLF diet usually fails because it produces the opposite - increased hunger

- John Yudkin noted in 1958, "The high-fat diet is in fact a low calorie diet"

- Remarkably when eating to hunger when Banting, the 11 subjects spontaneously reduced their total calorie intake to 1560 calories/day, a reduction of 33% (770 calories)

- Banting increased feeling of well-being and decreased lassitude

- Removal of carbohydrate from the diet that reduces hunger. Carbohydrate stimulates appetite - it does not reduce appetite. HCLF diet stimulates your hunger, making you want more

- Banting cures some cases of T2DM. Following adoption of Banting, 14 subjects with T2DM reported that they no longer require medications to control their abnormal blood glucose concentrations, indicating that Banting "cured" their T2DM

- Patients with either type of diabetes are usually encouraged to eat diets in which carbohydrate provides at least 40% of daily calories and more than 130g/day. It is not proven that this is the best advice

- Adoption of Banting cured their high blood pressure (hypertension) it also "elevated" blood cholesterol concentrations so they no longer needed medication

- Banting should be considered as a treatment option to cure T2DM, hypertension and "elevated" blood cholesterol. This is important since modern pharmaceutical agents can cure none of these conditions

- Obesity, T2DM, hypertension and "elevated" blood cholesterol all have a common cause: a high carbohydrate diet. This explains why Banting can cure all these conditions

- Now we have the ethical responsibility to offer Banting as an option to any patient who qualifies

- Landmark decision of the highest Swedish Medical authority, the Swedish National Board of Health & Welfare, after a two year investigation, concluded in January 2008 that "low carb diets can today be seen as compatible with scientific evidence and the best practice for weight reduction for patients who are overweight or have T2DM