Chris, there is one important you may not be aware of re low carb diets (apart from the obvious “dont feed glucose to a body that struggles to regulate it “) – for most people they reduce hunger. it is no coincidence that most effective weight loss programmes go down the high protein route – all the people I know who have genuinely tried low carb eating for over a week confirmed the same simple experience – carbohydrates make you hungry.

@Chris, “…the main thing is to eat a healthy balanced diet…” That’s like telling someone with a peanut allergy to eat peanuts as part of a healthy balanced diet. As Dr. Briffa pointed out, diabetics by definition cannot handle carbhydrates, so why eat them? Do you realize that you could reduce or eliminate your need for metformin (and possibly lose weight) by restricting carbohydrates to mostly non starchy vegetables?

Not surprisingly the sponsors page ‘does not exist’ or has been moved. What could they possibly have to hide, hmmmm?

Furhermore, the interaction between the two treatments (the 2nd treatment being an anti-oxidant vitamin cocktail, MINUS COQ10! WHY given MERCK’s patents combining it with statins?) was also not significant but possibly between p = 0.1 but > 0.05, Thus allowing the combination of the two groups with statins to be compared with the two placebo (one with the Vit cocktail) as published in the main paper. This resulted in a “significant”, positive result to be published. Another example of the use of the verb “to doctor” (see definition in the Oxford Dictionnary) in statin research.

no. The Cochrane collaboration published a huge meta study looking at perhaps 15 or 20 large influenza vaccine trials. They concluded that out of 100 people receiving the vaccine, only ONE case of influenza would be prevented. The other 99 people got the risk of the vaccine with zero benefit. That’s pitiful. Another thing I recall from the excellent graphics, is that 8 out of 100 people will have “Influenza” but really is not true vaccine strain influenza but other things: Norovirus, etc. known as “Influenza-Like Illnesses” or ILI’s. Only one out of 100 will contract actual influenza, hence the 1/100 rate of “prevention by vaccine” .

The common and uncommon risks of influenza shot are well documented. The serious ones are life altering. They detail them in the paper, but can also be read in any package insert (all are available here http://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccines/Vaccines/ApprovedProducts/ucm093833.htm) Narcolepsy, blood clotting disorders, immune system disorders, neurological damage like Guillain Barre syndrome (paralysis, can be permanent, my High School classmate’s son got it after a flu shot at age 5 or 6 and never recovered), heart arythhmias and infarction which often leads to death. Heart stopping was the mode of death of that 7 year old girl who died 1.5 years ago in Vermont. Her name was Kaylynne Matten. She got sick just after her flu shot and died 3 days later. Her story is here. http://vaxtruth.org/2012/01/death-by-flu-shot-7-year-old-receives-flu-vaccine-dies-4-days-later/

Dr. Doshi has many, many published papers about Influenza (vaccine, prevalence, etc) in the best journals in the world (JAMA, BMJ). If you go to pubmed.com and do a search for DOSHI P influenza a ton of papers come up. You can read them. He is not an “Opinion” he is looking at broad swaths of data and basing his conclusions upon that.

Anyway, would doctors really dismiss signs of angina, or signs of heart disease because of a statin ? That would be poor treatment indeed.

Exercise should be a wellness tool not a weight loss tool. Just my thought.

Cristi Vlad