A great recent Speech/Rant about how Big Food is Killing you by Dr. Dhand!

[Admiral Benbow]

One of the best metabolic guys around in my opinion. First class.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Not someone I’d heard of.

Seems to be courting controversy and YouTube bans for misinformation according to the headlines of a quick search.

But most of the YouTube bans / misinformation coverage seems to be posted on his own channel. Perhaps it adds a certain non-mainstream anti-establishment kudos for a particular audience?

 

[indio02]

Not someone I’d heard of.

Seems to be courting controversy and YouTube bans for misinformation according to the headlines of a quick search.

But most of the YouTube bans / misinformation coverage seems to be posted on his own channel. Perhaps it adds a certain non-mainstream anti-establishment kudos for a particular audience?

Don't have time to watch the whole thing at the moment but what's the problem with is vid?

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

I don’t know that there is a problem - I haven’t watched it!

I hadn’t heard of him so I searched his name. Unfortunately the listings didn’t encourage me to watch the content. It struck me as odd that someone would post quite so much about being banned or sanctioned by YouTube for spreading misinformation on their own channel, almost like a ‘badge of honour’

I don’t know which video(s) the ban relates to, but the sum content of a minute‘s Googling was enough to suggest to me that it wasn’t a vid for me.

I do think there are significant issues with the lobbying power of industrial food giants, and hyper-processed, ultra-palateable foods - so it seems likely the video posted above would confirm many of my biases… but I‘m not sure it’s a source I’m drawn towards. Just a gut feeling 🙂

 

[Bubbleblower]

guys

Companies really, all these youtube heroes that for some reason are treated as rock stars.
Usually they sell something like in this case courses and consults, that's what the video is really about.
These youtube companies are often as unreliable as the big food or pharma companies they complain about, they will say what we want to hear. This particular video has some interesting information, but it is a sales video.

Now, speaking of Big Food killing us, I still have the dietary advice I got when I was diagnosed.
From Astra Zeneca, of all places.
As a diabetic you better use products from Unilever in case you didn't know and our version of the FDA (which happens to be sponsored by Unilever and companies like Kellogs and played a big role in the 7 countries study) fully agrees.

So I followed their advice and my FBG rose from 13.5 to 20.6 mmol/l at the time.

 

[Amity Island]

It struck me as odd that someone would post quite so much about being banned or sanctioned by YouTube for spreading misinformation on their own channel, almost like a ‘badge of honour’

Is this because before the the lockdowns, opinion was just that and not misinformation? In other words, he is proud to have an opinion, even if it is now "classed" as misinformation.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Is this because before the the lockdowns, opinion was just that and not misinformation? In other words, he is proud to have an opinion, even if it is now "classed" as misinformation.

YouTube has been under fire from fact-checking organisations who say that not enough is done to prevent the spreading of false and untrue claims. I would imagine that if something is demonstrably untrue and false, it doesn’t matter whether you share it as fact or opinion - it would still be misleading?

YouTube is major conduit of fake news, factcheckers say

Platform is not doing enough to tackle spread of falsehoods, claims letter signed by 80 groups

www.theguardian.com

I think there is a subset of media consumers who actively avoid ‘mainstream media’ because they no longer trust it or regard it as having integrity (or appeal). Perhaps this subset is more likely to want to book a private consultation with him, or book a place on his course. His website also seems to advertise an uncensored personal social media channel (that he presumably can’t be banned from because he runs it).

I’m not sure what connections lockdowns have to any of this?

 

[Amity Island]

One of the best metabolic guys around in my opinion. First class.

I heard a documentary last week (or the week before), regarding the reason we thought sugar caused such weight gain. This is in fact only part of the story. Now, they have found that when we eat sugar (which is high in calories and harmful for gut microbiome) it overrides the brains "i'm full" shut off switch, leaving us forever hungry. So, if we avoid sugar, we should be feeling fuller sooner and hence eat less from day to day.

 

[nonethewiser]

Another grifter.

 

[Amity Island]

One of the best metabolic guys around in my opinion. First class.

A cigarette-style health warning should be considered on packaging for ultra-processed foods that could have 'serious health implications', suggest MPs.

MPs call for health warnings to be placed on ultra-processed foods

Concerns were raised in Parliament about the health impact of such products which usually contain ingredients that people would not add when they were cooking homemade food.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[trophywench]

The '7 countries study' was undertaken under the mantle of the Grain Board of America, way back when there were vast tracts of productive grainfields in America - I remember seeing films of them produced for children when I was at Junior School (1957 to 1961) with acknowledgements to firms like McDougall's (ie wheat flour) and/or Hovis, so names all English kids were familiar with from seeing eg flour bags at home in their kitchens and/or the baker's shop when they went with mum to buy bread - and they made one helluva lot dosh exporting said grain to here there and everywhere worldwide - including the UK. In the UK because of the difficulties of WW2 importing all sorts of things from here there and everywhere farmers here had to start also producing grain, so we could still make our own flour and still bake and sell our own bread. Still, by the time I was at work in Birmingham and thus in our town centre every weekday still only one bakery in the town sold 'exotic' things like French Sticks aka a 3ft long proper baguette or fresh cream cakes. PS that was the sole place in West Brom that schoolgirls doing their GCE O Level cookery course could purchase fresh yeast from for the week the syllabus required them to bake bread. Or rather, their mothers could go and get it for them in the morning for use that afternoon!!

It started off as a study of a greater number of country's dietary consumption - some fell by the wayside very early on because of difficulty getting meaningful data from them at that time - but since then most of us with functioning brains have really wondered how actually truthful at least some of that data anyway, let alone accurate! ISTR it started off with 23 countries and landed up with just the 7.