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GOING LOW CARB HIGH FAT

YOU MAY THINK low carb is just a fad when it comes to diets, but you may be surprised to know that it has been recommended by doctors for the treatment of diabetes and obesity- related illnesses for more than 100 years, even before our diets changed so dramatically. Interestingly, it was also used as a treatment for epilepsy in the early 1920s.

Diabetes was always known as sugar diabetes and it made sense that this disease of sugar meant you had to cut out the sugar. If we look at our current western diet, it would be no surprise to anyone to say it is highly processed, high in inflammatory oils (processed) and high in sugars.

Sugar is a very basic term

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