Brendan Reid is a former fat broadcaster turned fat software developer. He lives in Dunedin, New Zealand, now minus the fat. After finally losing more than 50kg (111 pounds) in under two years, Brendan's original weight loss success story was featured on Diet Doctor in 2017 and since 2019 he has spoken of his experience at live events both at home and overseas. Between his ongoing work and video game habits, his book 'The Fat Ginger Nerd' took around five years to write and around forty years to live.
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24 responses to “Brendan Reid – ‘Low Carb for Weight Loss: What We Are Told and Why’”
Love this ❤thanks 🙏
This cannot be just a fad diet where you lose the weight and go back to eating lots of carbs. This is a lifestyle change where you have to continue the low carb diet.
Healthy eating for the rest of life. Carbs are not healthy.
There is a famous study that “proves” that low carb diets don’t work, but it allowed (only) the low carb arm to not eat the diet towards the end of the study. Basically saying low carb doesn’t work because if you eat 140-260g of carbs a day (as part of the low carb arm!), you gain weight again. And this study is cited a lot by opponents of low carb.
Thanks Brendan. Excellent presentation!
People in Govt. are only interested in covering their own backsides. They are afraid to take a risk and change the status quo. So they are really just rearranging deck chairs. Good talk btw and congrats on the weight loss. I would like to see the authors of the recommendations put under scutiny and questioned by Low Carb Down Under.
We have an obvious bias in pretty much all western countries against low carb, paleo, keto, carnivore. The real question is why is this bias actually so pervasive and why would government bodies have such a bias?? Who benefits when obvious effective alternatives to a way of eating and becoming metabolically healthy are either suppressed or objectively dismissed as “unhealthy”? The food companies, the medical industry, and the pharmaceutical industry all control those in the ministries of health/dietary guidelines. It’s simply not good business for programs and dietary guidelines to be truly effective. If we are eating less and eating more natural foods grown by local farmers where’s the big business in that???
I had a very similar fat loss journey to Brendan over the past 9 months and the amount I have discovered in my personal enlightenment is astounding (at least to myself). Once you finally have your eyes opened and your mind free, it is impossible not to see the intentional harm being perpetuated upon a trusting populace by those that are will to sacrifice millions in the pursuit of profit.
NZ Ministry of Health should be renamed Ministry of Sickness.
Most countries still advocate the use of seed oils as being a healthy choice when they are proven unstable when used in cooking and processed using bleach, caustic soda and other chemicals – So healthy.
When I ask restaurant staff if they can prepare food without seed oils, the staff look at me as if I have two heads!😮😮
Evidence before our eyes 👍
This is very similar to the problems with the management of heart disease and diabetes. Another issue is how “low carb” is defined. 200gm/day, 100, 50, 20? The guidelines don’t say
Thanks to low carb I am no longer a slave to food. I went low carb to remit my diabetes, achieved successfully in less then 3 months, and I’ve lost 37 lbs (80kgs down to 63kgs) without trying. I’m a 65 yo F.
Very good presentation. We definitely need separate dietary guidelines for people who are overweight and obese.
Thank you so much. Yet we expose the obvious again.👍🥰
Good content.
Focus is so often on weight loss. Weight is a result of something else. Achieving metabolic health surely should be a key focus of attention, root cause, and weight optimisation is likely to follow as a natural course of the body then reaching a healthy equilibrium. Perhaps it is unfortunate that whereas weight can be measured in simple terms that people can readily understand (scale weight!), metabolic health is harder to grasp, less easy to define, rarely taking the headlines.
A well-organised testimonial. Many thanks to the speaker.🙏🙏🙏
Very good presentation….. The main stream medicine is totally out of evidences
Very well done. Thank you for putting this together… it blew my mind as well and it explains a lot!
Great presentation.
Every single metabolic ward controlled study has shown that when protein and calories are equated weight loss is the same for any diet
Do these studies consider the quality of these calories? If the assumption is a “calorie is a calorie” we know that there is a meaningful flaw in the methodology. Ultra-processed food, added sugar and seed oils all have established impacts on health outcomes.
Could you add a link to trial documents into the description/notes, please. Thank you <3
Just follow the money. It never fails to find the truth and motives.