Dan Repacholi and Health Advocate

Greetings Dan and the team.

I am Richard Harding.

I have been involved with the teaching of nutrition courses for a registered training organisation in Newcastle. I have also been involved with the design of diploma and certificate courses for three RTOs. Two of these RTOs spent 6 years endeavouring to have these courses meet the compliance standards but after 6 years of rather intense effort, the organisations decided it was too time consuming and expensive and gave up.

I have a 150 page, 120,000 word website. The web site has a range of supporting material including ebooks, a published book and video.

The published book Low-carbohydrate Mania: The Fantasies, Delusions and Myths that dispels the myths that we have been following expert medical advice for the past 40 years and we are unhealthier than ever. Many popular commentators declare that the idea that saturated fats and cholesterol cause heart disease is the greatest scientific deception of our times and that a low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet is essential for our well-being. ¹

My book was included several nutrition course delivered by RTOs (well three).

The majority of current books, websites, news items and blog posts advocate that insulin resistance and the metabolic syndrome are three cause of the majority of the increasing levels of ill-health. This concept arose with the publication of a New York Times Magazine article published on 7th July 2002 by Gary Taubes. ²

Taubes interviewed a number of nutritional researchers to support his views.

In November 2002, (some five months later) Bonnie Liebman published an article in the same magazine that refuted the claims of Taubes. Whilst the Taubes’ article is still available, Liebman’s article is not. That is interesting. Luckily I kept a copy. ³

Some comments below from Liebman’s article are below.

Taubes was asked why he made no mention of a review of nearly 50 studies on weight loss in the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute’s 1998 Clinical Guidelines on treating obesity. The panel of experts was chaired by Columbia University’s Pi-Sunyer, who has served as president of both the American Society of Clinical Nutrition and the American Diabetes Association.

Professor Xavier Pi-Sunyar is a renowned and highly regarded Professor of Medicine at Columbia University , New York. He is a medical doctor and a qualified epidemiologist.

It would be relatively easy to duplicate Katherine Lawrence’s experience with two women who are suffering from their debilitating endometriosis. Katherine’s story is explained below.

It can be difficult for people to find out what really is a healthy diet and to change their shopping, cooking and social arrangements.

My website contains four ebooks, including a 17 page book “Fat, Carbohydrate and Type 2 Diabetes” that demonstrates that the cause of Type 2 diabetes has been known since at least the early 1920s. It was another 70 years before the physiological reason was discovered.

The “Truth and Belief” ebook documents the actual beliefs of Rene Descartes instead of his mis-interpreted views of popular commentators such as Marianne Williamson. It also shows that moderation is indeed a fatal thing (Oscar Wilde).

The origin of the popular myths such as the Butterfly Effect is fascinating. (A butterfly in Brazil does not cause a tornado in Texas despite its charming alliteration.)

“Dietary Deceptions” is a 160 page book that examines the contention of a number of popular commentators and medical researchers that we should be eating more meat and dairy. Dr James Muecke states we should be “eating more eggs, cheese, meat and dark chocolate to minimise diabetes and its associated blindness”.

It also examines the flawed methodology of US News Best Diets. Each year the organisation releases its annual report. In 2022 it evaluated 40 diet plans “to help millions of Americans make food and nutrition-related resolutions and achieve their health goals”.

A 97 minute video along with a more detailed accompanying ebook (complete with references) examines how the food industry, medical researchers, regulatory authorities and the media collude to ensure that corporate profits can continue to increase. It is much more powerful to hear and see how these bodies distort the truth than to read it in a book.

I have a reference manager that contains over 4000 entries. Most are primary references from peer-reviewed journals where I have the article on my PC. There are also references to books, TV documentaries, podcasts, webpages, blog posts, newspaper articles, conference papers, ABC programs and news items, WHO reports and documents.

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

I have printed the following pages in colour (rather expensive exercise) from my website and handed them individually to Tanya Plibersek, Meryl Swanson and Jenny Aitchison at a Labor Party fund-raising dinner. There was not one food item that was healthy. They all promised to read the material and respond. Unfortunately, that did not happen.

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Dan Repacholi

If you can take the time to review the above pages and act on them you could be instrumental in transforming the lives of 100,000s of women and men throughout Australia.

This could be Walkley Award material for an inquisitive and committed journalist.

Imagine if each week on the front page of the ABC website, there is an inspiring video of two women recovering from endometriosis. If a person embarks on a whole-food, plant-based diet with no added oils, sugars and they are taking diabetic medication then the blood sugar can drop overnight and the person can become dangerously hypoglycemic as the blood sugar drops dramatically. Similarly, those who are taking hypertension tables to lower blood pressure, the change in diet can result in systolic blood pressure (the higher value) dropping 30-40 mmHg points causing a potentially a serious health risk.

If a person is on blood thinning medication to avoid blood clots such as warfarin (rat poison) they are instructed to avoid cranberry juice and grapefruit juice as it can increase bleeding. Some really healthy vegetables such as kale, spinach and broccoli should be consumed with care. Modern blood thinning medication do not have this impact.

Fake meats should be avoided. They are a highly processed food designed to mimic the taste and texture of the food items they are designed to replace.

I have also forwarded this material to the Australian Medical Association, the Medical Journal of Australia, Endometriosis Australia, Orange Community Health Centre (specialising in women’s issues) and Amber Bryant but no interest or response has been forthcoming.

The only thing I am selling is the already proven idea that changes to what we eat can be so transforming. There are some incredible stories available from the top panel of my home page.

Check out the stories of Frances Greger, Tim Kaufman and Joseph Claudio.

These issues are not just women’s issues but sex-hormonal related illnesses apply equally to both women and men.

I am hoping you will find the material as fascinating as I do.

It would be relatively easy to duplicate Katherine Lawrence’s experience with two women who are suffering from their debilitating condition. Her story is accessible from the right panel of my website by clicking on the green VIDEOS button. Help would be needed in determining a healthy diet and ensuring that the changes to shopping, cooking and eating are easily managed. Imagine the impact that a weekly update to the women’s condition could be organised on the ABC instead of stories of struggle and hardship.

There are lots of material on my website on getting start as well as references to helpful books.

The top ABC 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.

Another recent development is reappearance of Professor Rajiv Chowdhury in the media, advocating that insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome is the fundamental cause of worsening health crisis. There are further details regarding his view on the cause of our worsening health outcomes below.

On 22nd May 2025, there was a news item on the [Australian] ABC website showing Amber Bryant running 500 kilometres to raise money for endometriosis research.

The good news is that the cause is already known. I have contacted Amber and provided her with references from peer-reviewed medical journals and the remarkable story of Katherine Lawrence who cured her endometriosis in 7 weeks by changing her diet. This did NOT require the purchase of supplementary products. Her story is accessible from the right panel of my website by clicking on the green VIDEOS button.

According to a journal article published in 2020, ⁴

The cause of the significant increase in estrogens has been known since 1990s. YES, that is two decades ago.

According to the following 2005 journal article, ⁵

The ‘very-low fat diet‘ is simply a whole-food, plant-based diet with NO added oils (or salt). Coconut oil, olive oil or mayonnaise are not healthy and are most assuredly NOT associated with a natural diet of humans (or chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas and orangutans).

Another related story was published on Sunday 11 May 2025.

Kris Stanley was diagnosed with premenstrual dysphoric disorder which has the same root causes as endometriosis – an excess of estrogens. This is not a new discovery. NOR is the cause of an excess of estrogens.

This information has been known for decades but there is a reluctance to implement the changes to resolve the issues.

Read and watch the video of Katherine Lawrence story of how she “magically” disappeared her “incurable” endometriosis in seven weeks.

It would be relatively simple to duplicate Katherine’s experience. The only challenge is to fully comprehend what a healthy, whole-food, plant-based diet is.

It is estimated that in Australia 11%-16% of women in the relevant target population are afflicted by endometriosis.

There is much evidence that endometriosis is caused by an excess of estrogens, in particular estradiol, as far back as early 2000s.

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

I have written to the ABC on several occasions, with references to peer-reviewed articles and links to Neal Barnard’s video telling of Katherine Lawrence story of her recovery from endometriosis in less than 2 months by consuming a healthy, whole-food, plant-based diet with no added oils or salt (really important). Check out the green Videos button that is on the right panel on every page of my 150 page website.

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 100,000s of men and women 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.

Ketogenic and low-carbohydrate diet advocates have been 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.

Stewart 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 last year and received so much attention in the popular press. ⁶

His 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. An increasing number of people are more comfortable with getting information from videos which has a greater impact.

Who is Robert Lustig?

Robert Lustig is a paediatric endocrinologist at the University of California, San Francisco. He is the author of Fat Chance: Beating the Odds against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease. ⁷

He specialises in childhood obesity and studying the effects of sugar in the diet. He is the director of the UCSF Weight Assessment for Teen and Child Health Program and a member of the Obesity Task Force of the Endocrine Society.

Below are some quotes from Lustig.

Sugars are carbohydrates – they are not fats. This is basic chemistry. Fatty acids contain a carboxyl group ( COOH) – sugars do not. It is simply wrong to state that coconut, olives, avocados have no carbohydrates.

Below is Lustig’s view that insulin resistance and the metabolic syndrome is the root cause of our ill-health.

Lustig’s admiration for Yudkin is unfounded. Yudkin was unable to produce the data to support his contention that sugar causes heart disease.

Keys was not the only person to publish papers critical of Yudkin’s analysis. Jeremiah Stamler, Gerry Shaper, Michael Oliver and Geoffrey Rose were prominent researchers who considered that “there was no firm evidence linking intake of dietary sugar and CHD.” ⁸

Mortality from heart disease started reducing in 1966 in U.S., Finland, and Australia. It was another 10 years before this happened in the United Kingdom because of Yudkin’s influence.

That is a disappointing legacy to have.

In 2016 Robert Lustig has published an updated version of Yudkin’s book Pure, White and Deadly: How Sugar Is Killing Us and What We Can Do to Stop It. ⁹

Professor Rajiv Chowdhury and the Cause of Our Worsening Health Conditions

His current academic position is listed below.

Florida International University: Miami, Florida, US
01/12/2021 to present | Professor and Chair of Global Health (Global Health)

Professor Stewart Truswell of the University of Sydney wrote an article Sceptics undermine effective dietary and heart health advice (2015) that was published in the Medical Journal of Australia. ¹⁰

The renowned Harvard epidemiologists Walter Willett, Frack Sacks, Meir Stampfer reached the following similar conclusions.

Professor Stewart Truswell

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 is a highly esteemed nutritional researcher and author. 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 ebooks, website and movie before the were published found the material “very informative and interesting”.

He has stated that the movie and the accompanying book are “brilliant”.

Last updated on Saturday 21 June 2025 at 07:50 by administrators

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