I went to a presentation by Professor Grant Schofield last night on the way home from golf - mainly to show some support. I was surprised to find that it was a packed auditorium and there were a few familiar faces there - including my doctor and one of my favourite drug dealers ('pharmacist' being the more politically correct term). The Taupō community is doing quite well on adoption of the low carb high fat science and all looks good for this community going forward. The aim of the group organising it is to have Taupō a diabetes free island of hope to stand out to the rest of the country, and perhaps the world, as an example of how we can do things better to combat some of our most crippling illness through lifestyle change rather than pharmaceuticals. To the surprise of many present, who thought that Grant might be a touring 'evangelical' from one of the 'high power' countries like the US of A, it turns out he is a local product, having actually been born in Taupō and then living for a while in Turangi as a child before moving further afield. He presented well as a speaker, managing to illicit some good laughter from the crowd as he got across some important information. His reply to a question about whether his own children were low carb - "yes they are, but they have no idea that they are" - got a good chortle going. While I may have spotted a couple of errors in the presentation, I chose not to ask any 'hard questions' (as urged by Gary Hayman), because I didn't want to come off as a 'dick' in what was a very supportive group ;) . I was pleased to hear my own doc, Pete Battersby, ask a question about gout, and, while the subject was not fully covered, was at least heading in the right direction. Excellent work by the team of Grant Schofield, Glen Davies and Sarah Hancock!
My own journey with low carb has been fairly well chronicled (on these pages and on Facebook) over the last few years and it has been a lasting intervention that has seen both my wife and I lose weight and become healthier from our earlier situation of obesity and metabolic disarray. Prof. Grant came onto my radar in 2014 when he was offering a book 'Big Fat Surprise' as a prize for the best personal stories of low carb journeys and he published mine (as well as presenting me with a copy of the book).
It is great to see Low Carb High Fat currently making such traction against the last 5 decades of dogma that has been taking us down a path of ill-health.
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Gregg SheehanProblem solver from way back. Currently working on the challenge of weight and health. Hence this website. Archives
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