Health
Australian of the Year takes on Big Food, says our diet is ‘killing us’ – Michael West News
Australia’s dietary guidelines are flawed, with more than 5000 people losing their lives from Type 2 diabetes in the past 3 months
A flawed dietary guideline, which we have obediently and blindly followed for 40 years, is literally killing us.
So wrote 2020 Australian of the year Dr James Muecke this week in the Canberra Times.
Dr Muecke, an opthamologist who has spent about three decades working to prevent and treat blindness in some of the world’s poorest countries, also compared the number of lives lost to COVID-19 with the number of lives lost to Type 2 diabetes.
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