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Diabetes
Unpacked

J ust Science and Sense

No Sugar Coating

Various Authors

In support of The Noakes Foundation

Published by Columbus Publishing Ltd 2017
Kindle edition
www.columbuspublishing.co.uk

ISBN 978-1-907797-59-0
Rev 20170721

Copyright 2017 individual authors
Each contributing author has asserted their right to be identified as the authors of their work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise without the prior permission of the respective author.

Edited by Dr Zo Harcombe

Cover design by Lewis Kokoc

Typesetting by Raffaele Bolelli Gallevi

Thank you to Scott Murdoch, for giving his permission to use his iconic Tokyo subway image.

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The information provided in this book should not be construed as personal medical advice or instruction. No action should be taken based solely on the contents of this book.

Readers should consult appropriate health professionals on any matter relating to their health and well-being.

Neither the authors nor the publisher can be held responsible or liable for any loss or claim arising from the use, or misuse, of the content of this book.

Acknowledgements and Dedication

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank all the authors of this book, who have kindly shared their research and wisdom freely, so that anyone with diabetes, or an interest in diabetes, may understand that official advice may not be good advice. We particularly thank the authors for generously donating their work, so that The Noakes Foundation will benefit as a result of this publication.

This book would not be what it is without the valued real-life stories shared by Indya, Lindy, Neil and Nigel and to Gareth Dupre, who so expertly and sensitively helped them to write their stories.

We would also like to thank Peggy Matthews and Raffaele Bolelli Gallevi for their meticulous review of the manuscript.

Dedication

This book is dedicated to all diabetics, to everyone who knows a diabetic and to anyone who could become diabetic. It is a travesty that we have been advised to: Base meals on starchy foods. There is another way.

About The Noakes Foundation

My interest in diabetes and the many other names it has is deeply personal. Its personal to me and to my country. South Africa is the third most obese nation in the world a figure that constantly befuddles me. We are a country with an enormous land mass and sufficient space and agri-diversity to sufficiently feed our country and flourish. We have a concentration of many world leading brains, bodies, minds, athletes and a country that has no reason to be suffering from diseases of the first world. What went wrong and why here?

The biggest injustice we have seen to date, at The Noakes Foundation and Eat Better South Africa!, has been the hard truth that the poorest seem to get the sickest and most overweight first. This is not only the case with diabetes, but its underlying early flag, insulin resistance and the various other diseases that we now know are associated with it. I was sketchily diagnosed with insulin resistance at the age of 21 and now know that this disease drives various other illnesses: hypertension, heart disease, obesity, inflammation, arthritis, gout, dementia, Alzheimers and possibly even many metabolic cancers.

There are lists of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of people who have suffered through years and decades of incorrect dietary management of a chronic condition. This list keeps growing and, as we gather the endless evidence of self-reported disease remission or reversal due to ketogenic or LCHF transition, we are blown away daily by how many forms of malaise are rectified by this most simple information.

It is information that does not rely on expensive drugs or massive medical intervention. Anyone who has suffered, or is still suffering from this syndrome, which affects pretty much everything in the human body anyone who has struggled with prediabetes or diabetes knows this. Within weeks something massive changes metabolically and you are given another chance at vitality.

For me, I felt like I had my life back and my humanity and brain restored, after decades of following the wrong advice that had gotten me ill in the first place.

At The Noakes Foundation, we raise funds to support research, but also to support the approximately 46.5 million South Africans who are not on private medical aid and are thus not able to get the world class care that less than 18 percent of our country affords in the privatised system. It is these people who are worst off; with little or no support and insufficient regular medical advice, diabetes is an ever-growing burden and dynamite that has now taken over HIV deaths in our country. It is a bomb that has already gone off. There is not a second to waste to make the change, cut the sugars and to start asking why we got here and how we can fix things for future generations. Many people need to wake up, even the ones who are not diabetic or sick and are managing on the current diet, but still feeding their children endless refined carbs and sugars and thinking it wont happen to us .

A while ago, a top medical insurance leader who had initially been vehemently against the Banting movement in South Africa and outspoken against the approach Prof Noakes was taking to diabetes management, came to meet us to apologise. Just after he had left this influential role, which had set up our largest private medical aid in a way that denied LCHF eating and even penalised its members for eating this way (and still does today), his daughter had been diagnosed as a Type 1 diabetic. Overnight, he and his wife had changed their kitchen and got the whole family Banting. Their daughter is now controlling her diabetes without insulin and all their other children are off ADD medication. They will never go back. He said he would never have imagined how his perfectly healthy child could get this condition and now that his eyes are opened, they will never go back.

We dont want children needing insulin before parents wake up. Change needs to happen before children reach that stage. Long before. They need simple information to understand the exaggerated amounts of toxic sugars and insulin spinning carbs that are hidden in their childrens average foods.

It is more critical now to our nations survival than anything else. Our primary concern needs to be to sort out the millions of children in South Africa who are living on more than 80 percent maize and refined wheat-based products in their diets.

Children are getting bottles filled with sugar-filled fizzy drinks instead of water or milk and then graduating onto school meals of maize (known as pap here) and a soft drink. One school meal programme, which we want to fund, currently relies on yesterdays bread rolls from local supermarkets to make slop soup for 86,000 children. For these children it is their only meal of the day.

The reality here is simple and visible. Everyone is getting fatter and sicker at the same time. Its the same as malnourishment, presenting itself in a bigger costume. Schools are desperate. The navy is struggling with uniform sizes and basic fitness levels. The time bomb is ticking.