Dr Micheal Eades - Cognitive Dissonance: The scientific evidence for LCHF ignored

Cognitive Dissonance: The scientific evidence for the LCHF is so strong. Why then is it ignored?
Dr Michael Eades
Summary: The introduction of farming and agriculture in the Middle East approximately 12 000 years ago was associated with an immediate reduction in human height and health. This was especially shown by the diseased bodies of the Ancient Egyptian mummies who followed an almost identical eating plan to that prescribed as the modern “heart healthy” low fat diet. In my presentation I will present this archaeological evidence as it relates to our modern dietary choices, supplemented with evidence from randomized controlled clinical trials comparing low carbohydrate and low fat diets which show the superiority of the low carbohydrate diets in the management of a range of medical conditions especially obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus. I will also suggest reasons why I believe this information continues to be ignored by the medical profession and other health care providers.
Links to articles in this video:
25 Randomised Controlled Trials Between Low Carb & Low Fat - Full Table of Results Including Health Outcomes & Adherence Rates
ehp.niehs.nih.gov/1205485/
Low-Carb vs Low-Fat Diets for Weight Loss
Nordmann et al. Arch Intern Med. 2006;166(3):285-2
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Carbohydrate restriction regulates the adaptive response to fasting.
Klein S & Wolfe RR. Carbohydrate restriction regulates the adaptive response to fasting. Am J Physiol 1992 262:E631-6
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15...
Intention-to-treat. What is the question?
Feinman RD Intention-to-treat. What is the question? Nutr Metab. (2009) Jan 9;6:1
www.nutritionandmetabolism.com...
The Effects of Low-Carbohydrate versus Conventional Weight Loss Diets in Severely Obese Adults: One-Year Follow-up of a Randomized Trial
Stern L et al. Ann Intern Med. 2004;140:778-785
www.hippro.nl/files/images/Low...
Psychology of Intelligence Analysis. Heuer, Richards J. 1999, Center for Study of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency
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publications/books-and-monographs/psychology-of-intelligence-analysis/PsychofIntelNew.pdf

[@harryviking6347]

Until I started quitting eating carbs, it was nearly impossible to shed much weight!! Now, after cutting the grains, sugars and other carbs, the kilos are evaporating away!!

[@radicalgreek99]

Eliminate all the sugar and carbohydrates and you will lose weight like crazy. I have been on a keto/carnivore diet for about 16 months now and have lost 110lbs. My body is tighter and more muscular than ever as well. It's really amazing how much better I feel without carbohydrates and sugar. My extra skin has shrunk back to the original way it was and that has to do with fasting.

[@saturdayschild376]

I didn't mind him going over on time, all his stories were very interesting. I like his observation about changing the narrative because people don't care about data. Boy is that the truth!

[@Axiomatic75]

Big pharma will do whatever they can to prevent that. They will lose many Billions in profit if the masses start eating healthy.

[@ldean8360]

My wife was totally clueless about nutrition when we met. After I "educated" her we both packed on about 20 lbs. Little did I know all I learned in school about nutrition was rubbish. We continued to struggle with weight for 20 years. I've finally overcome my carb addiction. Unfortunately the rest of my family had not.

[@ShipCreek]

Id like to see the low carb diet directed more publicly towards the elderly. They're still believing the lies we were told over the last 40 odd years and are suffering for it.

[@dana102083]

Long term cares are shuffling a super high carb diet to those with dementia..makes me so sad :/

[@lorettadillon-ham1574]

dana102083 I totally agree. After 4 months of full time volunteering in aged care facility..... the diet provided to residents is HIGH CARB with HIGH SUGAR desserts and trash breakfast options - completely disgusted me - there is NO desire to provide a health maintaining diet for the elderly at end-of-life, whether that period of life is years living in an aged care facility or not. The blatant disregard for evidence based nutritional science health benefits of low carb healthy fats is heart-breaking! Was an experience where I learnt to shut-up because mine was a tiny voice in a big ocean.

[@C2yourself]

My dad has dementia. He ate low carb for most of his adult life, worked out with weights, played tennis, smoked cigarettes and drank alcohol liberally. Around his late 60's he started eating low fat. Fast free, sugar free fudge pops. Only skinless chicken, 95% lean ground meat....he starved his brain of need cholesterol. It's a shame

[@lorettadillon-ham1574]

C2yourself So sad to read over and over again how we’ve been misled and paid the price with our precious health, through advertising campaigns (marketing) ill-educated and ignorant doctors and blindly led nutritionists both motivated by big Corps (although today not all are in this category - there are still more practising old propaganda than those moving away from the lies of nutrition) still so much to understand, learn and co-ordinate in relation to brain health for disease prevention but at least with LCHF; LCKD; VLCD; etc we are on the right and true path to promoting health rather than destroying it

[@C2yourself]

If I made the menu for senior care they'd have bacon, eggs, avocado for breakfast. Roasted chicken and green bean salads for lunch then liverwurst on celery, sliced cheese and tossed green salad with coconut and avocado oil dressing. Dessert? Cup of fresh berries with heavy cream

[@martinirving3824]

Interesting.. to hear Eades tell it, a major part of the allure of the low fat diet for the medical establishment was the potential for a drug regimen to accompany it. That sort of puts a perspective on it, doesn't it?

[@C2yourself]

Of course!

[@lorettadillon-ham1574]

Thank you. Dr Eades’s presentations never fail to deliver his message. He is a pleasure to watch and hear his message of a very important call-to-action.

[@tensevo]

Human body is made from protein, fat, water, trace minerals, ....this should proabably guide ones diet choices.

[@cyndipetray6420]

Thank you so much for lading these videos from the conference. I’m devouring every single one!

[@TheStar798]

Subscribing! Thank you for all of these videos from the giants that changed (and saved) my life 👏👏👍

[@annetcell-ly4571]

Fab talk. I was around in the 80s and the concept of carb loading and low fat. I wonder how many people that killed? I started to panic when you’re time was up - I could listened to you for hours.

[@roseschella3074]

In the mid nineties, I bought Drs. Michael and Mary Dan Eades' book on the "Protein Power Plan". Great book and have been following their advice ever since. I like the balance of the carbs to protein better than the Keto diet - too much fat for me. I do one meal in 24 hours' intermittent fasting two to three times a week. I never feel hungry or have sugar cravings. Love this lifestyle of eating. Never feel deprived and it keeps my weight to where I want it. I have to admit, it's hard to convince people to eat this way of eating. I'm 76 years old and feel great. I think I look great for my age too. Thank you Drs. Eades.

[@terraflow__bryanburdo4547]

You were lucky and smart to read that so long ago. The rest of us latecomers had some further damage that took years to reverse (now on 70/30 carnivore)

[@dana102083]

Whether you eat the fat or dont, youll then burn body fat. Youll need to eat more fat at maintenance..some people (like me) do not tolerate a little more carbs or protein or i feel starving and irritable. I eat 120g of fat a day. In whole foods, one or two meals a day. Im plannimg on doing a month of carnivorethis summer to see. I owe it to my genetic disease to try.. Take care!

[@sonjawalkerreactionscommen3501]

That's very dangerous for the galbladder. Extremely dangerous actually!

[@LaneCodeRedCarnivore]

​@@sonjawalkerreactionscommen3501 its the low fat / avoid fat that is causing a big problem ! I've noticed people who were following that diet are having their gallbladders removed now.

[@lindabirmingham603]

A light bulb lit up in my head when Dr Eades talked the bran muffin craze. I was all-in back in the 80s and made them all the time as well as adding wheat bran to my oatmeal. Wheat bran is very high in oxalates and might have been what started my 30 year history of fibromyalgia, bladder pain, anemia, and IBS. I also drank a lot of black tea and veg high in oxalates. A perfect storm causing my pain and mineral deficiencies.

[@stevenhickey1800]

I have watched several of your talks and think they are fantastic. I was intrigued to see the term 'cognitive dissonance'. I came across it's meaning years ago when our neighbors tried to sell us stuff in what was basically a pyramid selling scheme. They all go to the meetings, it all sounds fantastic, they fill their garages up with stuff and end up selling to immediate family (and neighbors). When you put the reality to them, they think it's just about to get better.

[@LaneCodeRedCarnivore]

It sure is nice to have a Doctor to trust with research ! ❤

[@creatrixinc]

I bought his book in the '90s!

[@LloydieP]

I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes aged 4. For years, all my parents and I heard was how bad fat was. Bloody ENDOCRINOLOGISTS and DIETICIANS telling us this. For years I scornfully dismissed anyone who was on the low carb bandwagon. How dumb could these people be? Cutting an entire food group out sounds crazy. Besides, I had specialists, GPs, dieticians etc to prove it. Despite having swapped my dog to a raw mean and bones type diet (Paleo for dogs) then stopping her heavy medication within days. Having heard literally the same shit about evil fats from vets, I was pretty angry. Still I ate my healthy whole grains (yup, mostly wheat-3/4 of the way to pure sugar on the glycaemic index) Later on, after a few days of strange diabetes troubles, a natropath friend gave up gently prodding me about carbs and gave me a book about Paleo pretty heavily loaded with biochemistry. Read it through that night. Within DAYS I was feeling pretty bloody angry at the clever doctors I'd trusted through childhood and well into adulthood. How could endocrine specialists and DIETicians tell a six year-old child struggling to self administer insulin (insulin wasn't like it is now) to eat a diet filled something close to effing sugar?

[@TheProphetJoshua]

This is the outrage I want to see from the rest of the world about this.

[@ellenorbjornsdottir1166]

Is your blood sugar easier to manage now? I just wanna reach through the screen and give you a big hug.

[@RealMonoid]

Very interesting.

[@kevinkestler4375]

Very interesting history of the Low Carb Evolution and the conclusion of cognitive Disidence. Marketing is so powerful in keeping good information from reaching the public. Diet crazes whip people in beliefs that don't work and make a lot of people rich in spite of their effectiveness. Emotion runs the show.

[@zolboobatbold3792]

People are just too addicted to their carbs.

[@DarkMoonDroid]

This is so packed with wow! But I need to leave this timestamp here to remind me: 0:42:32 Someone did this work for the first time, that we all now rely on. Here it is.

[@IvorMektin1701]

I ate so many bran muffins in the late eighties that I broke the sewer system.

[@DiogenesNephew]

That was you??

[@stefanweilhartner4415]

insulin vs. glucagon is the right approach, if not the only

[@BeBedabit]

My sister died at 75 in a nursing (dementia hospice) that gave the patients apple juice, bananas, and granola bars between meals. She just collapsed and they could not revive her. Her blood sugar tested if I remember over 300. She supposedly had no other health problems. Why why give sugar to sick people?? No excuse 😢

[@danielpincus221]

It would be helpful to see the date of this presentation.

[@Jefferdaughter]

"...they just can't rap their brains around it." Hmm. Maybe that is because our brains are around 80% fat - animal fat - including about 30% cholesterol. Between the demonization of natural fats, including animal fats, eggs, and coconut oil, and the promotion of statins, it is a wonder that anyone can think at all. Dr. Barry Groves, in 'What We Are Designed to Eat', talks about the effect of vegan diets on brain size. Check it out, here on KZbin.

[@ericalewis9047]

I'm at my desired weight. I do keto because most foods make me sick. It is so hard to shop because they take fat out of everything and Pump sugar in.

[@ericalewis9047]

My point was this message needs to spread!

[@sonjawalkerreactionscommen3501]

Same. I was malnourished too so keto is the only thing that keeps my nutrients level in my blood. I basically absorb 0.0001% of plant matter if any amount at all.

[@nikitaonassis6090]

Did my research about a decade ago prior to diabetes..not much known then..hospitals insistent on high carbs..one of the recent "pioneers" imho..along with Tim noakes and Gary Staubs..

[@jasonturner6459]

He wrote his protein power book in 1996...no exactly recent and certainly way before the more recent surge in interest.

[@jparks6544]

I wish they would release Protein Power 2.0 as they have been saying for years already.

[@razmiihsan8897]

This is entertaining.

[@theskyehiker]

OMG. I forgot the name of the Cambridge Diet. That was the first time I tried to do an “official”diet.

[@tensevo]

Let them eat ---cake--- bran muffins.

[@douglashagan65]

Yes protein Powers the book I'm reading right now man this is the best book I've read these other books are actually send you down the death March I mean this is actually second Chance on life I'm in the way you feel it's just unbelievable how quick it works

[@DavidBrown-bp4iq]

Most carbs are too many carbs. And fasting is as important as eating. And exercising while fasting is glandular magic. It's where the magic begins! Growth hormone. Adjusted insulin. Brain neuro growth! Age reversal. Youth.

[@danielpincus221]

When was this lecture, back in the early 2000s?

[@HelmetBlissta]

In summary, forget fleas. Look at the Lion.

[@sheilacollins9384]

I'm left politically. I accept science and can see that the low carb diet data is superior to that of low fat. It's content that matters, not emotion. It's why I reject trumpism (lies and threats). Can we get truth and compassion in our narrative?

[@iss8504]

Oh good grief. What does Trump have anything to do with protein sparing diets?

[@wilygramma9921]

I took that hydrolysed collogen. It was horrible. Only used one bottle.

[@TheHerbdude]

Bone broth is good for collagen. Also unflavored gelatin.

[@banparlous2552]

Fight fire w/ fire as the old saying goes. Fight fat w/ fat. It’s really not that difficult a concept. Cognitive dissidence is a motherfucker I guess? Especially when there’s money involved & whole industries that perpetually scratch each others back, on the line.

[@SystemNutrition]

so where was the evidence.....it think people putting up videos on youtube need to all have a meeting to discuss the definition of evidence

[@dana102083]

Loool do you hear yourself? When was youtube declared king of scientific literature?! It's literally for personal content and opinion. Go to ligitimate sources if you want real scienceand pick them apart yourself. That is the best way to get it and have proof with your own eyes and interpretation.

[@MrDavidknigge]

The studies are in the notes up on top.

[@animamundii]

Squisher you have sources for articles in the description moron 🤦🏼

[@sonjawalkerreactionscommen3501]

Oh a butthurt vegan I see.

[@ladyjatheist2763]

christ, the mouth noises are really driving me nuts! almost to the point I'm ready to leave...

[@DinarAndFriends]

A totally unconvincing presentation. This is a science-free zone, unfortunately. Yet more click-bait!

[@jasonturner6459]

Not perfect but not worse than the worshipped but debunked so called China study. Full of poor science and cherry picked crap. The evidence for the current paradigm is pretty lacking.

[@DinarAndFriends]

@@jasonturner6459 >>so called China study What do you believe is flawed about the China Study?

[@quentinnewark2745]

Jason Turner or this: www.catalystathletics.com/articles/downloads/proteinDebate.pdf

[@dana102083]

No matter what anyone says, or what evidence youre giveb, your own bias will always win..

[@quentinnewark2745]

dana102083 dead right. Applies to many things, this diet stuff often referred to as Diet Wars (a war requires two opposed sides), politics, and now climate. Most of know nothing much about any of these, yet take the most fixed positions.