Dr Trudi Deakin, has revealed her diet is 82 per cent fat - and claims she has never felt healthier.Science.
The founder of X-PERT Health, a charity that offers educational programmes on diabetes to NHS professionals, Dr Deakin regularly performs in-depth literature reviews of recent studies to ensure the information they give is up-to-date.
'More and more evidence is coming out in favour of low carbohydrate diets,' she told MailOnline.
A year ago, she was asked to speak at the annual Diabetes UK conference in a debate against another researcher on the topic 'We should stop promoting carbohydrates in people with diabetes'.
Dr Deakin said: 'Traditionally, the advice has been high-carbohydrate, low-fat diets are best.
'I won the debate and was amazed afterwards when I started being contacted by diabetic patients and GPs who had started a low-carb diet and found it to be successful.
'Despite that, patients told me their diabetes care team were still promoting a high-carb diet.
'GPs were telling me for years they had seen patients coming through on a low-fat high-carb diet complaining it wasn't helping them.
'I started to do some additional research last summer, reading lots of fantastic books and studies.
'I now have a very clear understanding of how a high-carb diet has fuelled the obesity epidemic.'
Friday, January 16, 2015
'My diet is 82% FAT and I've never been healthier', dietitian claims - as research shows it's carbs that fuelling the obesity and diabetes epidemic
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