Wise Nutrition Website and Dr James Muecke, 2020 Australian of the Year

Each morning when I sign into my PC, I check the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) news, health and science bulletins.

The top news stories have frequent references to the problems that women have with their health (including endometriosis), the difficulty that they have in obtaining diagnosis and treatment and the suffering that they are enduring. It is estimated that in Australia 11%-16% of women in the relevant target population are afflicted by this devastating condition.

In the past 3 months, there has been at least 7 stories relating to endometriosis, with two as recently as 27th July.

The WHO states the endometriosis is incurable and the cause is unknown. Using references from peer-reviewed medical journals and case studies, I can show that this is not true. It is caused by an overabundance of oestrogen, in particular oestradiol which is the result of a high-fat, high-protein diet as advocated by low-carbohydrate and ketogenic diet advocates such as Dr James Muecke, the 2020 Australian of the Year. Many references are provided from my website.

I have written to the ABC on several occasions, with references to peer-reviewed articles and links to Neal Barnard’s video telling Katherine Lawrence’s story of her recovery from endometriosis in less than 2 months.

Despite the fact that all complaints to the ABC must be responded to, I have not received one response. It could be a life-changing event for 10,000s of women abd men if the ABC followed one or two of these women over a period of 2 months following the introduction of a whole-food, plant-based diet.

Over the past several decades, our health indicators have become progressively worse. The prevalence of many cancers have continued to rise. The mortality rate for all cases of cancer has risen for females. It has decreased for males because of the reduction in lung cancer.

Whole-food, plant-based diet advocates have been losing to ketogenic and low-carbohydrate diet advocates who are having a much greater impact on diet in our community than whole-food, plant-based advocates. Book sales are higher, website visits are much more frequent.

Breast cancer, a sex-hormone related cancer with a high prevalence rate, continues to rise.

Pancreatic cancer, has a lower prevalence rate but has a high mortality rate, continues to rise unabated.

Whilst a substantial reduction in cervical cancer occurred between 1992-2002, there has been no reduction in the following two decades.

In 2018, 36% of Australians aged 18 and over are overweight (BMI of 25 to up to 30) and 31% of the population are obese (BMI 30 or more).

34% of adult Australians have hypertension (greater than 140/90 or taking medication). According to the Framingham Risk Assessment calculator, a systolic value of less than 120 mmHg is ideal.
Autoimmune diseases are a pernicious group of diseases where the immune system produces antibodies that destroy the body’s cells. There are 80-100 autoimmune diseases that have been identified.

Autoimmune diseases cumulatively affect 5-10% of the industrial world population and are a significant cause of morbidity and mortality. World-wide, the incidence of autoimmune diseases is increasing at the rate of 19% each and every year.

5.3% of Australian adults aged 18 and over had type 2 diabetes in 2017–18. Diabetes is the fastest growing chronic condition in Australia, increasing at a faster rate than other chronic diseases such as heart disease and cancer.

Between 25% and 35% of Australians diabetics report some form of diabetic retinopathy.

Dementia is a syndrome in which there is deterioration in memory, thinking, behaviour and the ability to perform everyday activities.

It is not a normal part of aging. 50 million people world-wide have dementia with nearly 10 million new cases every year.

Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia contributing 60–70% of cases. In 2016, the global number of individuals who lived with dementia was 43·8 million which increased from 20.2 million in 1990. This represented an increase of 117% in 16 years. Dementia was the fifth leading cause of death globally accounting for 2·4 million deaths. This could be attributed to modifiable risk factors of high BMI, high fasting plasma glucose, smoking, and a high intake of sugar-sweetened beverages.

In the US, in 2010, the rate of autism at age 8 was 14.7 per 1,000 which is 1 in 68. Boys are 4.5 times more likely to be affected than girls—rate for boys is 1 in 42 compared with 1 in 189 for girls.

I have a suggestion that should have a great impact.

Compare the progress of two women who are suffering from debilitating “incurable” endometriosis over two months. Place one on a Dr James Muecke’s high-fat, high animal-based ketogenic diet and the other on a whole-food, plant-based diet with no added oils.

Take weekly liver function tests kidney function tests as well as their lipid profiles and oestrogen levels, in particular oestradiol. Take a high magnification image of their blood, showing the differences in adhesiveness of the platelets, the amount of fibrin, size of the neutrophils along with the differences in the structure of the cell membranes.

Enlist the services of a journalist, who is not afraid to challenge a national hero, to follow their progress.

My wife drives me to Newcastle, a trip of 56km, twice a week for my treatment of multiple myeloma at The Mater Hospital. On the way we pass 4 McDonald restaurants and 6 billboards. The billboards are advertising BLT McTasty Hamburgers. I asked the nurse who checked me in what a BLT was. She knew – Bacon, Lettuce and Tomato – and sales are increasing.

Whist I sit in the waiting room, the TV shows adds for the BLT McTasty Hamburgers.

Whilst I have my treatment, lunch, morning and afternoon tea are provided. The most popular item for lunch is the ham, cheese and egg sandwich. The cafes and restaurants at the hospital do not provide one item that I would eat. Diet Coke is the most popular drink.

Of the 70 patients that are treated at the Mater each week for blood-related cancers, I am the only person that brings their own lunch and water.

The nurses who treat me bring in their treats consisting of baguettes sliced in half and filled with whipped cream – along with their drink of choice of Diet Coke.

Each time that McDonald’s Restaurants run a campaign for vegeburgers, the sale of Big Macs and Quarter Pounder, and “gourmet burgers” increases.

The stories of Frances Greger, Tim Kaufman, Joseph Claudio that can be accessed from my Home Page shows what can be achieved on a healthy oil-free whole-food, plant-based diet. Have you read John Robbin’s story,The Pig Farmer? I still get teary each time I read it.

It is stories that influences people.

Check out the videos that are accessible from the right panel on every page of my 150 page website by clicking on the green Videos button. View Katherine Lawrence’s story of how she overcame “incurable” endometriosis in less than two months.

Also view Dr. Anthony Sattilaro’s story of how he reversed his very aggressive cancer only to decide that he no longer needed to stick with his regime after ten years. He died afterwards. Sometimes you only have one chance at recovery.

Ruth (my wife) is the same weight as she was at high school in now in her mid 70s. She can still do a head-stand at her yoga class. She has inspired absolutely no-one to follow her example.

It is only when people are desperate that they (maybe) willing to change.

To misquote Bertrand Russell, “Most people would rather die than change and many of them do!”

This week we have the 60th year anniversary of our local Rural Fire Service brigade. One former member cannot attend because for the past two decades he has been crippled with arthritis. Check out the following excerpt from one of my webpages that shows the SIR for arthritis as well as other aliments.

Yersinia species bacteria is strongly associated with pork consumption. The SIR is not a percentage increase but represents the multiplication of the increase of the number of expected infections.

Yersinia infection, which according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, accounts for accounting for approximately 117,000 illnesses, 640 hospitalisations and 35 deaths every year. This results in a 47 times increase in the expected number of reactive arthritic conditions and twice the number of rheumatoid arthritic conditions.

My daughter, Jessica has never eaten meat, chicken or fish. She did eat eggs and goat’s cheese up to the age of eighteen. In her thirteen years of schooling, she had 5 sick days, all ocurring on one session of consecutive days. Her children, Leo (age 7) and Oscar (age 3) live in Bali and have been bought up vegan. Balinese are far from being vegan and enjoy their poultry, pork, fish and beef.

Professor Stewart Truswell and his colleague, Professor Jim Mann from were, in their words, “incensed” when Arne Astrup’s article WHO draft guidelines on dietary saturated and trans fatty acids: time for a new approach? was published in the BMJ in July 2019 and received so much attention in the popular press.

Professor Truswell’s colleague Professor Jim Mann, from University of Otago was at a World Health Organisation diabetic conference in Europe and the meeting decided not to engage in a public debate because it will “give them oxygen – they will always lose out to the well-funded dairy and beef industries“.

I disagreed. I have produced an 85 page A5 document that reviews Astrup’s paper which Stewart has reviewed. I also produced a 97 minute video with some of the highlights.

On the website, I have a quote from Robert Lustig where he states:

Stewart is “appalled” with Lustig’s and John Yudkin’s influence in the popular press. Stewart was Yudkin’s successor as Head of Department of Nutrition at Queen Elizabeth College, London University.

My book – and video – documents how food industry has manipulated the media and researchers to ensure that profits become before public health.

Professor Stewart Truswell of University of Sydney has supported me in the writing of my book, Low-Carbohydrate Mania: The Fantasies, Delusions and Myths. He is a renowned nutritional researcher and author. He still has an office at the University of Sydney. He is over 90 and before COVID drove into work at University of Sydney most days and has recently published the 5th edition of his 700-page text, Essentials of Human Nutrition for Oxford University Press. He also wrote Cholesterol and Beyond: The Research on Diet and Coronary Heart Disease 1900-2000.

Professor Truswell reviewed my book before it was published and found it “very informative and interesting”. He has also reviewed my books, movie and website.

Similarly, Mark Hinchey who has a PhD with his thesis titled Evidence-based Medicine is also an enthusiastic supporter, although neither of them embrace a plant-based dietary regime as important in obtaining optimal health.

When I published my book Low-Carbohydrate Mania: Fantasies, Illusions, and Myths, I posted Dr John McDougall a copy to his practice in Santa Rosa, California. We communicated by email for nearly a year.

Dr John McDougall is the earliest advocate of a whole-food, plant-based diet. He was a doctor on a sugar plantation in Honolulu. The elderly immigrant Asian generation remained trim, active and medication free into their nineties. They had no diabetes, no heart disease, no arthritis, and no cancers of the breast, prostate or colon. Their diet consisted of grains, fruits and vegetables. Their children were a little heavier and not as healthy. The next generation, those eating a standard American diet were suffering profound health problems.

The rules for being human apply to everyone. Whilst people’s preferences maybe meat, eggs and dairy, it is these choices that are causing are profoundly unhealthy society. It is not possible to resolve our health problems by denying our basic evolutionary heritage.

All primates obtain the majority of their food from plant sources. Primates include lemurs, monkeys, apes and humans. Chimpanzees obtain the only 5% of their food from animal sources which is the highest of all the primates. Most of this is from termites. Jane Goodall observed chimpanzees “fishing” termites from the mounds using grass stalks. Raw termites are not appealing to modern humans.

Mostly the correspondence I had with Dr McDougall concerned William Davis and Robert Lustig who he viewed with bewilderment.

William Davis’s view that gluten is a modern day invention is, let’s say, imaginative. The wheat genome is very complex. Gluten first turned up in a closely related species, Goat Grass, millions of years ago. Some researchers believe that Goat Grass should be included in the Titicum genus. I explain a possible evolutionary history of modern wheat in my webpage Wheat and the Distorted Views of William Davis. Dr John thought this was “informative and useful”.

Similarly, Robert Lustig’s claim that is listed above is equally absurd.

Both my book Dietary Deceptions (page 151) and its associated movie discuss in some detail the issue of corporate funding and how medical researchers, food manufactures, retailers and the media collude to ensure that the demand for food products continue to grow in an already saturated market.

The book is available from the right panel on every page of the website.

Dr James Muecke, the Australian of the Year in 2020, presented a talk at the National Press Club in Canberra, Australia on Tuesday, 1 December 2020.

Muecke believes that we should be eating more eggs, cheese, meat and dark chocolate to minimise diabetes, its associated blindness (diabetic retinopathy) and diabetic neuropathy. Peripheral diabetic neuropathy is nerve damage of the limbs that is caused by diabetes. 50% of adults with type 2 diabetes have peripheral neuropathy. It can result in pain, numbness and an increase in sensitivity. Diabetes account for more than 80% of amputations.

I contacted Dr Muecke and asked if he had a transcript of his talk and a list of references for his views. He stated that he gives “a couple hundred presentations a year” with a total audience of 100,000s. The talks are all “of the cuff and are different each time”. The only references he has are contained in his talks. He is having a big negative impact on the health of Australians. People want to be told to eat more red meat, cheese, eggs and chocolate. The number of people who identify themselves as vegan has reduced from 1% to 0.5% over the past couple decades.

My goal is to ensure that people such as Dr Muecke, Gary Taubes, Nina Teicholz, Maryanne Demasi and Robert Lustig are held accountable for their mischief.

Another goal is to have the opportunity to address the National Press Club to counter the views that Dr Muecke previously presented.

You can view Dr Muecke’s views by clicking on his image that is on the Home Page of my website.

I also believe passionately that my videos, books and website can have a great impact if they were more readily available to counter the obvious fallacies that are presented by low-carbohydrate and ketogenic diet advocates. A number of people have told me that they have transformed their lives as a result of my work but I would like it to be much more.

Last updated on Wednesday 25 September 2024 at 19:52 by administrators