Today, in the third part of our life-changing series, Dr David Unwin looks at simple ways to help you tackle your sugar cravings, while chef Katie Caldesi offers more of her delicious recipes that show ‘low carb’ doesn’t mean missing out!
Looking back I feel a certain shame about the way I treated my overweight and type 2 diabetes patients before I came across low carb. For years, I found looking after them unrewarding because they didn’t seem to improve.
Now, of course, I realise that I was actually to blame for giving them poor advice!
These days thanks to what we now know about tackling weight gain I’m proud to tell you the average weight loss for 336 of my patients who’ve gone ‘low carb’ is 1 st 10 lb (11kg) over 28 months, and 14 have lost more than 4 st (25kg) each.
Let me start with an embarrassing confession: for years, patients with a weight problem were among my least favourite cases to deal with as a doctor.
Back then they filled me with despair, because despite giving them the suggestions set out in official guidelines, they rarely if ever lost weight, and the health of those with type 2 diabetes so often just got worse.
When I look back, I see now that it was my fault: I gave poor advice, then blamed my patients when it didn t work.
But now I ve found a proven way to help them. And these days I actually enjoy helping people lose weight because we re seeing such great results with this in my GP practice.
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Unhealthy foods aren t just bad for you - they may also be addictive
24 Feb, 2021 02:19 AM
8 minutes to read
Some researchers believe highly processed foods may be addictive. Photo / Richard A. Chance, The New York Times
Some researchers believe highly processed foods may be addictive. Photo / Richard A. Chance, The New York Times
New York Times
By: Anahad O’Connor
Food researchers debate whether highly processed foods like potato chips and ice cream are addictive, triggering our brains to overeat. Five years ago, a group of nutrition scientists studied what Americans eat and reached a striking conclusion: More than half of all the calories that the average American consumes comes from ultraprocessed foods, which they defined as industrial formulations that combine large amounts of sugar, salt, oils, fats and other additives.
Five years ago, a group of nutrition scientists studied what Americans eat and reached a striking conclusion: More than half of all the calories that the average American consumes comes from ultraprocessed foods, which they defined as “industrial formulations” that combine large amounts of sugar, salt, oils, fats and other additives.