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Better Health is Possible
Everyone can have better health, if you thoughtfully change just ONE thing at a time.
Discover what works, by making small changes in what you do.
What you can learn here may challenge your core values, who you are, and what you believe. This isn't easy, it will take time. Better health, and several extra years of healthy life, may be on the table. The new science isn't so hard; so make the effort to read the science. We believe what we say here is reliable, but you don't need to depend on Open Future Health. Do your own research. Keep your own written records.
We all believe many things about health that are not valid. Even health professionals can become trapped by their learning. We keep making wrong decisions; thinking "that's healthy."
There is "false news" everywhere, especially around something as important as what we eat. If you can take the time to "deschool" yourself and re-learn, you can resolve these issues for yourself.
Unlearn your wrong knowledge. Getting better dietary knowledge, takes time, maybe a year or more.
Below are several different ways to learn about improving your health.
Each way teaches very similar things, that will reinforce what you are learning.
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The Lecture is an eight part series that explains why the health of the nation is so poor, and why the official health advice about the best diet, how to lose weight, and how to treat type two diabetes doesn't deliver on the promise.
To make the best use of The Lecture, don't rush through it. Read more widely. Come back to it. It's a lot of basic stuff that you need to know, if you are going to understand why the Ministry of Health in NZ, (who are generally very smart and practical) have got metabolic syndrome, the treatment of type two diabetes and the best diet for weight loss so wrong. Moreover, why it seems impossible for the best intentioned people to change that.
The Workshop is an opportunity to collect and write down some health information about yourself.
The Workshop has five parts each about 30 minutes. It might take you two or three weeks to gather together all the information you need.
The Banting Diet is one of the low carbohydrate healthy fat diets that have been so successful in combating metabolic syndrome. This is what you want to do, now and you should have started yesterday.
We know, but it's a long game. To succeed you need understanding about why, and how, and where to find reliable information. Can you tell the difference between reliable and unreliable information?
Take your time. You can start the diet today, but be gentle with yourself, read the preparation pages in the introduction to this web site. Do The Workshop. Spend a few hours in the next week of so listening to The Lecture. You only learn when you try to DO SOMETHING, So if you are determined to be a vegetarian or a vegan (Neither of which Open Future Health recommends.) then do that. You may need to fail first, before you are ready to learn. It's your journey, and you MUST lead the way.
Give what you are doing some roots. Keep a health Journal.
It's simply not ethical to conduct the sort of long term feeding experiments that would offer a scientific answer to the question "What should people eat."
One of the principles we have relied on, is the idea that we should eat "everything in moderation."
On the other hand if you look at all the other mammals in nature, they have very specialised diets. Animals that have a short gut like us, cannot ferment cellulose like large gut animals do.
Since 1998 when "The Women's Health Initiative" demonstrated the failure of the recommended diet to keep us healthy, there has been a lot of new research. Sometimes the results are surprising.
The New Open Future Health Blog
The "Trial" of Prof. Timothy Noakes
Original OFH Blog 2016-2017
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