A love letter🧵to @DietDoctor as I break up with you.

Dear @DrEenfeldt,

I can confidently speak for the most, perhaps all, of the keto/low carb community when I express my respect and deep gratitude for what you have built at Diet Doctor.
1/ You entered the keto/low carb world before there was much of a community and then you helped build it.

That was brave... and risky.

You created wonderful, accessible content, grounded in the best available science. You never overstated the facts, even though --
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How is this possible? This is how... Thread. usnews.com/news/health-ne… 50 years of US Dietary Guidelines based on an unproven and now debunked hypothesis that shifted the US food supply to devastating levels of sugar and carb consumption. 2/

#LoveInTheTimeOfCoronavirus

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1/ As I drove to my parents' home yesterday - trunk full of disinfectant, hand sanitizer, thermometer, nutritious meals for their freezer - I couldn't stop thinking about how our definition of "acts of love" needs to change during this crisis. 2/ I pulled into their driveway, sanitized my hands, and took the supplies as far as their back door. Their faces fell when I told them I wasn't coming in. I suggested we sit on the back deck, my chair a good distance from theirs. I told them we needed to talk about the pandemic.

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Feeling down about all of the negative media clickbait about #KETO during the January diet season?

Cheer up! Here are four powerful proof points that #KETOisWinning

#1 People know results when they experience them. #KETO has left every other diet in the dust. 2/4
#KETOisWinning
Proof point #2

The science is powerful and growing.

@davidludwigmd's tour de force on the state of the science here academic.oup.com/jn/advance-art…

So many promising mechanisms to explore.
So many studies underway.

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Dog & cat obesity, diabetes, cancer, and other disease trends are starting to mirror human trends. Three guesses as to why? 1/ As consumers wake up and sales of candy, cereals & other highly processed, insulin driving foods stagnate, Big Food is being forced to sell off brands that built them.

Where are they investing? PET FOOD, where they are replicating the same damage, this time on cats & dogs. 2/

THREAD. I knew when @DoctorTro announced he was attending #obesityweek2019, we were in for some entertainment, but his write-up gives us all so much more than that. Insightful, heartfelt and a must read here. 1/ doctortro.com/obesity-week-2…. I have been a participant in, & analyst of, the #KETO movement for two years. I found #KETO during a leave of absence from my role as head of corporate strategy for a multinational conglomerate. I was desperately searching for a way to help son with debilitating ADD. 2/

1/19 What everyone needs to know about the red meat consumption guidelines published this week. usatoday.com/story/news/hea… 2/19 For nearly five years, there has been a growing chorus of scientists, doctors, patients, policy makers, journalists & public health experts questioning the quality of official (and unofficial) diet/nutrition advice against the backdrop of an escalating public health crisis.

1/15 NEWS: The most rigorous study ever conducted on the evidence for/against the health impacts of red meat published today. FINDING: "No compelling evidence that reducing consumption of red or processed meats will be beneficial to an individual." nytimes.com/2019/09/30/hea… 2/More than 100 studies including 6 million+ participants were analyzed making it the most comprehensive review of the evidence to date. "Those who seek to dispute it will be hard pressed to find appropriate evidence with which to build an argument," from annals.org/aim/fullarticl…

1. Ok. @JKCorden and @billmaher now that you have everyone’s attention, could you please perform a very important public service and share the latest science about why people get fat in the first place and then find it so hard to lose weight and keep it off? Stay with me.

https://twitter.com/latelateshow/status/1172571955314094080

2. In 1980, the US gov introduced the first dietary guidelines. They were based on an unproven, and we now know incorrect, hypotheses that dietary fat causes heart disease. Then what happened?

Today's news is full of lazy & misleading characterizations of this important Special Report on Climate and Land from @IPCC_CH. Despite the the tsunami of headlines/stories about "going vegan" to reverse climate change, that is NOT what this report is about, or says. See thread.

https://twitter.com/IPCC_CH/status/1159392694868856834

First, here's the story journalists are burying in favor of meat related clickbait. "The stability of our food supply is projected to decrease as the magnitude and frequency of extreme weather events that disrupt food chains increases (high confidence)."