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Welcome back for the super-exciting second episode of “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show with Jimmy Moore!” Thanks for listening today and do we have a show for you!
This week you’ll notice Jimmy has a new and improved sound quality courtesy of a much better microphone and the dazzling audio quality of Audacity! We think you’ll be pleased with the outcome and appreciate your feedback about Episode 1.
In Episode 2, Jimmy addresses two recent so-called “research” studies mostly out of Australia and highly reported in the mainstream media purporting to demonstrate that a low-carb diet is unhealthy and causes some rather unpleasant side effects.
These studies are thoroughly deconstructed and torn apart by Jimmy and his trademark propensity for breaking things down to the bare basics. He reveals the laughably bad criteria that was used to manufacture these much-heralded research studies while contrasting them with recent favorable studies towards low-carb that were conducted using better science, but they were buried deep in the media.
And guess who sponsors these masquerade low-carb studies, hmmm? Gee, I wonder. Tune in to “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show with Jimmy Moore” this week to find out THE TRUTH!
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Transcript
Hey there, you did come back for Episode 2 of “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show with Jimmy Moore.” THANKS so much for joining me again this week as we dive right into the hottest topics surrounding the low-carb lifestyle. But before I get into the meat of today’s show, let me first publicly thank each and every one of you who helped make the debut of my show last week such an amazing success. The folks over at Grasshopper New Media were thrilled with the number of listeners we had for my new podcast show in just the first week that they stoked about where it will go from here. The sky literally is the limit and I have YOU to thank for it. Please tell all your friends, family, and even those who oppose low-carb living to tune in to “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show” podcast for news and commentary about low-carb living. Hey, we even cracked the Top 20 Self-Help Health podcast shows at iTunes last week. WOO HOO!
Speaking of podcasts, did you know there are two other low-carb podcasters already out there? Yep, there sure are and I kinda stumbled across them recently. The first one is called “The Low Carb Lifestyle Podcast” with Diana “Holy Crap” Schnuth. If you listen to her podcast, then you’ll know why I give her the “holy crap” nickname. It’s has to be her favorite phrase! Listen to Diana at lowcarblifestyle.info. The second one is called “Atkins All The Way Weekly Wrapup” with BrianZ. This podcast was created as an audio support for the members of the popular low-carb Internet forum Atkins All The Way. For more information about BrianZ’s podcast, you can visit atkinsalltheway.com/pcast.
Okay, it’s time to get into the nitty gritty of this week’s episode. And it’s gonna feature two very damning studies that came out in the past week or so about high-carb diets and their link to certain types of cancer. In fact, unless you read my blog regularly or carefully pay attention to every new study that comes out about diet and health, you probably haven’t even heard about these studies because the media has been derelict in their duty to report the truth to you. I will also demonstrate the hypocrisy of the media in their reporting of the low-carb lifestyle using two recent examples of questionable studies which allegedly disprove low-carb. More on that later.
First, let’s look at these two studies on carb consumption and cancer.
Study #1 was presented in Las Vegas, NV at scientific meeting of medical scholars earlier this month. The lead researcher Dr. Vijay Khiani from the Cleveland, OH-based Case Western University and his research team looked at esophageal cancer rates over a three-decade period of time and compared it with the average carbohydrate intake of Americans over that same time period using data from the USDA. His conclusion? Eating a carb-heavy diet can and will lead to obesity which then leads to a predisposition to the development of gastroesophageal reflux disease, or GERD. Then having GERD increases the chance of the onset of Barrett’s esophagus which is the very last condition you can have before the development of cancer of the esophagus. The jump from 400 grams of carbs daily to 500 is what led to the six-fold jump in esophageal cancer rates in the United States since 1973. The biggest carbohydrate culprits according to the researchers was cereal, high fructose corn syrup, processed food and fast food like French fries.
Study #2 was published in the International Journal of Cancer this month by Dr. Francesca Bravi from the Institute of Pharmalogical Research in Milan, Italy. She and her researchers looked at over 2300 Italian adults in the first such study ever that looked for a link between carbohydrates and renal cell carcinoma, also known as kidney cancer. The study participants filled out a 78-question form identifying everything they ate on a weekly basis for the previous two years. The results of this survey and the undeniable connection between high-carb food consumption and cancer was astounding. Check this out! Eating bread increased the risk of kidney cancer by 94 percent; pasta made the risk 29 percent higher; and rice, another staple high-carb product, also provides a 29 percent increased risk of getting kidney cancer. Milk, yogurt and other high-carb, high-glycemic foods also produced increases in renal cell carcinoma risk. Meanwhile, certain low-carb foods actually were found to lower the risk, including a 26 percent decreased risk from eating poultry, a 36 percent dip from consuming processed meats, and a 35 percent drop in risk from eating raw and cooked vegetables.
Okay, it’s time for the participation portion of my podcast. How many people had heard of either one of these studies prior to hearing about them at my blog this week or in this podcast show today, hmmm? Anyone? Hellllllooooo? No? Didn’t think so. You see, it doesn’t fit the template for what the media wants people to hear about carbohydrates. That’s why they gush over ridiculous high-carb diet books like “The Pocket Diet,” or “The Bread For Life Diet,” or even “The Diet Code,” among others. It’s also why the much-heralded government-indoctrinated Food Pyramid pushes carb consumption as a top priority for people wanting to eat healthy. Can you see why people like me are so skeptical about the USDA and the FDA looking out for the best interests of you and me? It doesn’t look that way.
Meanwhile, let’s do a little trip down recent memory lane to see if you can recall two other studies that came out about low-carb that got more media attention than they really deserved.
Study #1 lasted three whole days and was presented at a sleep conference in early October by exercise and sports science researcher Dr. Chin Moi Chow from the University of Sydney in Australia. She put 15 people on the Atkins diet for just 72 hours to watch how it would impact them. Now, of course, anyone who has ever gone on a low-carb plan knows the first week or two is pretty difficult as your body goes through radical changes for the better. But it can be unpleasant and Dr. Chow concluded that going on the Atkins diet makes you tired, moody, irritable, lack concentration, and unable to stay focused. What? Did you say something? Just kidding. Too bad they never got to finish even the Induction phase of Atkins! This study got strong play in the media globally.
But nothing can top the media orgasm that resulted from the release of Study #2. This is the infamous “saturated fat” study conducted by Cleveland Clinic cardiologist Dr. Stephen Nicholls and his colleagues from The Heart Research Institute in Syndey, Australia (is there something in the water down in the “land down under?!”). Published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, they observed 14 men with an average age of 29.5 who ate one of two meals exactly one month apart consisting of a piece of carrot cake and a milkshake. The first meal used coconut oil which is high in saturated fat while the second meal used safflower oil which is high in polyunsaturated fat. Dr. Nicholls concluded that the saturated fat meal produced artery blockages just three hours after eating it and the anti-inflammatory qualities of the HDL cholesterol was reduced after six hours. Meanwhile, the polyunsaturated meal improved the anti-inflammatory qualities with less visible inflammatory markers present in the arteries following the meal than before the meal. Dr. Nicholls said the take-home message from his study is that people should “aggressively reduce the amount of saturated fat consumed in the diet.” Again, there was major media attention given to this very, very small study that supposedly puts the Atkins/low-carb dietary approach in a bad light.
Okay, so how about these two studies everyone? Had you heard of them before today, hmmm? I hear you nodding in the affirmative, that’s right, you probably have and that’s the power of persuasion that the media has over the information people are given about their health. While I’m not a conspiracy theorist, I do think there are certain stories that the media suppresses so far down the chain as it relates to bad news for the low-fat/high-carb diet while inversely any story that makes the low-carb/high-protein diet look bad, whether it has any merit or not, is catapulted to front-page health headline status. These examples I have shared today are but a few in a sea of thousands.
Nevermind the fact that both the “Oops, I almost did the Atkins diet” study and the “Cake and Shake” study were so limited in their focus, the end result is exactly what the media wanted people to hear. In other words, the damage had already been done. Most people who only read the headlines already have their minds made up about livin’ la vida low-carb because of all the attention that’s given to such meaningless studies as these that I’ve discussed today! It’s the same thing that happens in a courtroom when an attorney makes an inflammatory statement or asks an inappropriate question of a witness that causes the opposing attorney to object. Regardless of how the judge rules on it, the jury has already heard it and been influenced by what has been said.
Thankfully, we have the truth on our side and you can get more information about the facts about saturated fat, which seemed to get the most media play, can be found in Chapter 8 of independent researcher Anthony Colpo’s book “The Great Cholesterol Con.” There is a link to my review featured in the show notes at www.thelivinlowcarbshow.com. Colpo is from Australia as well (hey, there is some nutritional sanity coming out of that country after all!). He blows the lid off of the myths and lies regarding both fat and cholesterol. You’ll definitely want to check it out!
The dirty secret behind these so-called studies against low-carb is that they are generally funded by radical anti-meat vegan groups like PETA or deep-pocketed pharmaceutical companies such as Pfizer, who just so happened to foot the bill on the “saturated fat” study by the way.
So, you see, it’s a fact that you won’t always hear the whole truth from the media. If they ever did get a conscious and start honestly reporting on all the positive news about livin’ la vida low-carb, then we would begin to see a worldwide dietary revolution like nothing that has ever happened in the history of mankind. The rates of obesity and diseases like cancer would plummet as people began living healthier, stronger, and longer lives. The world would be a better place free from the bondage of excessive carbohydrates that has enslaved so many. But YOU have the ability to make that choice for yourself right now. So why not go ahead and do it? Don’t delay, start your low-carb plan today. You’ll be so glad you did. Until next time, keep on livin’ la vida low-carb!
LINKS MENTIONED DURING EPISODE 2
– “The Low-Carb Lifestyle Podcast” with Diana Schnuth
– “Atkins All The Way Weekly Wrapup” with BrianZ
– Esophageal Cancer/High-Carb Diet Study
– Kidney Cancer/High-Carb Diet Study
– “Oops I almost did the Atkins diet” Study
– “Cake and Shake” Saturated Fat Study
– “The Pocket Diet” book review
– “The Bread For Life Diet” book review
– “The Diet Code” book review
– “The Great Cholesterol Con” by Anthony Colpo book review
Credits:
Host: Jimmy Moore
Opening Music: Luna Clipper Theme by Fumitaka Anzai
Closing Music: The Spanish Song by The Nancy Drews
Produced by Kevin Kennedy-Spaien and Disc of Light for GNMHealth/Grasshopper New Media
[tags] jimmy moore, low-carb, diet, atkins, south beach diet, Stephen Nicholls, cardiac research, Chin Moi Chow, low glycemic, glycemic index, Great Cholesterol Con [/tags]
Great commentary Jimmy!