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Ron Raab from Insulin For Life is our guest today on The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show with Jimmy Moore!
Ron Raab is an Aussie man on a mission: his organization Insulin For Life wants to reach out to make sure all diabetics have the insulin and other diabetic-related supplies they need. Trained as an economist, Ron deals internationally with various diabetic groups and governments. Listen in to this interview as he and Jimmy discuss changing minds at the government policy level about low-carb nutrition, what his group is doing to help make insulin more readily available to the needy, and so much more!
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– Ron Raab bio
– Insulin For Life Australia
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– Insulin For Life USA
– Ron Raab’s personal blog
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Great podcast and an inspiring guest.
I am keen LCMPHF proponent and thank you for making these great podcasts available – I especially enjoyed the 2011 encore week guests.
However, is there enough fat and protein available in the developing world to feed the rising populations? If China switches from vegetables to animals, say, will there be enough calories to go round?
I’ve discussed this with many of my guests, Paul. There would need to be major changes in the food economy to make it happen. Crop fields could become pastures for raising grass-fed and pastured foods. It’s not impossible.
Kandinsky,
Jimmy is right that it is possible, if we turn our crop fields into grassland, that we could feed many more people the low carb way. Think about all the land that is being occupied by corn, soy, rice, and sugar cane/ sugar beet crops, and nearly all of it is devoted to grain feeding cattle and chickens(which IS NOT the healthiest, most environmentally safe, or humane way to feed these animals), and they are also used for the production of our processed foods. If you just transform this land into open pasture, not only will you be able to produce many grass fed cattle, range fed chickens and pigs, but you would do wonders for the environment as well. As evidence of this just read Michael Pollan’s books “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” and “In Defense of Food”, where he talks about the superiority of open range fed animals verses those who are fed in grain based operations, which require inhumane cramped conditions, and which also produce a lot of environmental waste, disease and nutritionally poor meat.
I have often heard the charge by many that there is not enough grassland to feed everyone on the planet this way, even if we were to make the aforementioned transition. To these people I say that your thinking is too myopic. I think the problem here is not that there is an insufficient amount of land, but a misallocation of land. There is plenty of land, outside of what is being used to support our grain based food economy, which can be of use to transition people to a the way of eating advocated by those who believe that animals should consume what they naturally are evolved to consume . Just drive across the United States and you will see plenty of land that is inundated with grass or land where grass could be planted, which is not occupied by people and not being used by livestock. The same is true for other countries as well. So the real problem here is not that our planet is so small as to make this unfeasible, as much as there is political and economic interests which are hell bent on creating impediments to this transition. And that is why a grassroots (all pun intended) advocacy to change global agricultural policies needs to take place.
-Lawrence
Jimmy,
Sorry I had to bail on your podcast this week. Way to much background noise (dishes, doors slamming). Might want to inform your subjects that extraneous noise really distracts from quality of broadcast. I really love your show, just want it to be the best.
Jeff, I do coach my guests about that kind of thing…Ron had no idea the noise was that loud. The information is worth it if you can just push through the noise. Sorry buddy!
Jimmy,
This was a wonderful interview with Ron Raab. It is nice to see that a person who is on the forefront of fighting diabetes globally, through his non-profit initiative of providing insulin to those who can’t afford it, concurs with the effectiveness of a low carbohydrate lifestyle and practices it himself. What could be a better mouth piece for the low carbohydrate methodology for health, than a person that encounters more diabetics than most people?
It saddens me that those who are the most impoverished and vulnerable in our world are the ones who are being peddled this nonsense of high carbohydrate diets to control diabetes. I am glad that a man like Mr. Raab is on our side.
-Lawrence
Thank you Jimmy and Ron. I have very little formal science training but I see people at the shops, in wheelchairs because of amputation. Logic says that if high glucose causes that much damage to the feet, it must be damaging every other part of the body as well. Sadly a friend has changed her diet to “nearly vegan” to avoid diabetes. Another friend, who is type 2, said “fats are worse than sugar”. She eats breakfast cereal with no fat yoghurt. I think it will be a long time before the low carb message prevails, particularly here in Australia. My family and friends are not interested at all.
Jill
This was a wonderful show. It would be nice if you could have Ron back on the show later in the year, Jimmy. I wanted to hear even more!
Sadly I’ve tried to talk with my mom about going lowcarb and I get resistance. She’s going towards vegetarianism. She’s diabetic and even though she eats a lot of healthy foods, some of these foods are not healthy for HER. She even gave me my Atkins Diet Revolution book back because she doesn’t want to eat much meat. She does have a minor issue with her kidneys so I can see why but I tell her to focus on fish and poultry. her blood sugar is difficult to control. I keep talking to her about low carb. She agrees with some of the info i give her but it’s a lot of work. The dietary establishment has got people entrenched in this dogma that’s not helping them.