9/ Dr James Muecke

This page is about Australia, but in New Zealand and across the world, commercial interests have produced biased research, recommended diets and treatment protocols that are designed to protect profits and to boost sales, rather than to improve personal health. Governments need to be more active in making sure legislation promotes public health at the community level.

Silent No More

Dr James Muecke AM, Australian of the Year 2020
National Press Club Address Dec 1st 2020 (A shortened Version)

Executive Summary

Type 2 diabetes is an avoidable man-made dietary disease impacting nearly two million Australians. There are multiple barriers to preventing and reversing type 2 diabetes in this country:

• Barriers to the prevention of type 2 diabetes.

o The Australian Dietary Guidelines 2013 (ADG) are flawed:

▪ The ADG discourage the eating of foods containing natural saturated fat, and this has in turn led to the production of thousands of low-fat products, many of which are highly processed and loaded with sugar and refined carbohydrates.

▪ The ADG encourage the eating of unhealthy polyunsaturated oils.

▪ Type 2 diabetes is a disease of carbohydrate intolerance, and yet Australians are being told to eat foods that are high in non-essential nutrient-poor carbohydrates.

▪ The dietary recommendations within the ADG, that inform national policy, are born out of weak and unreliable epidemiological data biased by industry influence.

▪ The literature selected by the DAA and that informs the ADG is biased as the majority of the studies were funded by the food industry.

Silent No More

Presented by Dr James Muecke

(29 minutes)

Published by: Low Carb Downunder

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Barriers to the reversal (remission) of type 2 diabetes.

o In December 2020 there was no mention of the potential for remission of type 2 diabetes on the website of Diabetes Australia, the peak body for patients with diabetes.

Diabetes Australia continues to be funded by the pharmaceutical industry.

o Members of the Expert Advisory Group have undeclared conflicts of interest with the pharmaceutical industry and the ultra-processed food industry.

o Vested interests are not only shaping what we eat and driving chronic disease in our society, they are also shaping how we treat these diseases.

It’s time for our government to take action:

o To create dietary guidelines which are based on solid science, are free from vested interests, and relevant to all Australians.

o To support healthcare professionals and their patients in ridding our country of the cursed disease, Type II Diabetes.

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