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At one point, she floated the idea of crowdfunding to support a class action to address ‘wrong advice given’ to type 2 diabetics on diet. His wife, Dr Jen Unwin, a clinical psychologist who lectures on ‘sugar addiction’ also ‘liked’ many of the posts mentioned above. He added: ‘I feel was unbalanced, upsetting and four against one – but. so far 120,000 people have seen this tweet.’ Overall Dr Unwin seemed delighted by the reaction to his statement. Someone tweeted: ‘Dr David Unwin saves lives, newspapers print lies.’ I could go on and on. Yet another Twitter user wondered: ‘How many extra amputations will advice lead to?’ĭr Unwin, on the other hand, was ‘honourable’, offered ‘hope’ while we gave only ‘despair’. ‘UNFORGIVABLE,’ was the verdict on this, from Dr Campbell Murdoch, a GP in Bath. If this well-worn trope is to be believed, it would be in the experts’ interests to keep us all fat, and dependent on drugs – an offensive slur, given that those quoted devote their lives to trying to make patients’ lives better, just as Dr Unwin does.īelinda Fettke, the wife of Australian orthopaedic surgeon and low-carb diet advocate Dr Gary Fettke suggested our investigation was an attempt by those with ‘vested interests’ to ‘silence’ Dr Unwin, which seemed astonishing given the noise being made. But it doesn’t raise blood sugar as much as eating pure sugar (file photo) Of course a banana raises blood sugar – it was clearly demonstrated by our monitors. This is a sign that you’re starting to hurt Big Food, Big Pharma and Big B******t right where it hurts. Another tweet read: ‘All animals lash out when threatened. ‘A vegetarian journalist, with no credible health education,’ was the verdict from one persistent tweeter, who added: ‘ failed to declare his bias.’Īn inference, endlessly repeated, was that the experts we quoted were not credible – funded by food and drug companies, and therefore conflicted and untrustworthy in their advice about low-carb diets. My CV, which is public on, was reposted a number of times.
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‘Such BULL***T! History will judge them harshly,’ and ‘Bananas are sugar bombs!’ were personal favourites. In the pile-on that followed the piece was called ‘absolutely insane’, ‘mumbo-jumbo’, ‘shameful’, and a ‘shark attack’. Dr Unwin went on to ask his 50,000 followers to ‘please help by retweeting my statement’. But it doesn’t raise blood sugar as much as eating pure sugar. On the day of publication, Dr Unwin posted a thread on Twitter calling the article ‘anti low carb’, adding ‘bananas don’t put up blood sugar? Three profs against me.’ It was, I thought, an interesting debate – with reasonable points put across by all, including Dr Unwin, who consulted with us on it, at length, prior to publication.īut the reaction, online, from some of Dr Unwin’s followers was vitriolic, to say the least. Despite this, even the sceptical doctors said they supported patients who felt low carb was right for them. There is strong evidence that people lose weight fast, in the short term, on low-carb plans, but also that they appear to be no more effective than other approaches past about 12 months, as people find it hard to stick to them. But are they facts or simply dogma? I decided to investigate.īacklash: The article that caused such a hostile reactionĪnd, dieting isn’t easy. Of course there is nothing inherently wrong in believing these things. Yet he also calls bananas ‘sugar sticks’, and says sugar is a ‘sort of poison’ to type 2 diabetics. A banana is a banana, sugar is sugar, and they are two such different things.ĭr Unwin states he believes it’s the quality of the diet, whether low carb or otherwise, that’s most important.
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But despite all the praise and attention, and the fact that Dr Unwin unarguably has his patients’ best interests at heart, his claims seemed, to me, implausible. I’m not a scientist or doctor, and have never claimed otherwise. He has helped scores of his type 2 diabetic patients lose weight and control blood sugar – without medication – by following his low-carb diet advice: avoiding potatoes, bread, pasta, rice and, yes, bananas. He has reasoned that because carbohydrate in these foods is broken down into single sugar molecules during digestion, both the whole foods and neat sugar have the same effect on blood sugar levels. Specifically, whether eating one was ‘the same as’ consuming six teaspoons of pure sugar, writes Barney Calman (file photo) Two weeks ago, I wrote an article about bananas.