What’s your main message to the public?
Poor nutrition is the single greatest driver of chronic ill health. We’re fat because we eat too much addictive high-carbohydrate food, not because we eat too much fat and exercise too little. The food industry is committed to making profits, not to promoting health living. It doesn’t care that their addictive, highly processed foods cause heart disease, obesity, diabetes, cancer and dementia amongst many other conditions. Until we accept this, our profession can’t reverse the crippling burden of chronic ill health caused by these nutritionally-based diseases. Prescribing more drugs to treat disease caused by poor nutrition will, surprisingly, not work.
What we need is a new generation of doctors prepared to refute the dogmas they are currently being taught. And patients who demand more from my profession than the prescription of yet more drugs that are of unproven value and may even be harmful. It will take courage but it can be done. As a species it is the only way we will return to the excellent health enjoyed by humans before the growth of the processed food industry over the past 80 years.
A final word?
We humans are the only mammals that suffer from chronic ill health. One critic suggests it’s because we are the only animals clever enough to manufacture our own food – and stupid enough to eat it.
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