This Week In Wellness Dr. David Ludwig, Endocrinologist at Boston Children’s Hospital and Professor at Harvard Medical School has published a paper with the bold claim that over consuming processed carbs rather than overeating is the primary cause of the worldwide obesity crisis.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/09/210913135729.htm

https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ajcn/nqab270/6369073

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This Week In Wellness I launch my new online community Healthy Lifestyle Choices. In a world full of information, misinformation, bias, hyperbole and conspiracy theories it is not hard to find information but it is hard to know which information to trust. And in a social media inspired world of echo chambers, where black and white thinking abounds, it is hard to find a place to have a balanced healthy argument, where people are willing to acknowledge the pros and cons of each side of the debate in the search of truth rather than the search to be right.

www.facebook.com/groups/healthylifestylechoiceswithdrbretthill/

www.healthychoiceschiropractic.com.au

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This Week In Wellness a team of American researchers have shown that reducing sugar by just 20% in packaged foods and 40% in drinks could prevent half a million deaths and save over 2 billion dollars in the US alone within the first 10 years.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/08/210827082431.htm

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This Week In Wellness with Iceland and Israel in the midst of their biggest Covid outbreaks despite 86% of those over 16 being fully vaccinated in Iceland and Israel having 78% of those 12 and over vaccinated, questions are being asked about whether we will ever be able to reach herd immunity.

https://www.news.com.au/world/coronavirus/global/iceland-deals-with-growing-delta-outbreak-as-high-vaccination-rates-stop-deaths/news-story/b970a814615715e573d67b3a1c1525f0

https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-iceland-vaccines-idUSL1N2P918F

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/08/31/covid-19-recovery-vaccination-natural-immunity/

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262415v1

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This Week In Wellness the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners has reported that prescription rates of anxiety and depression medication have risen dramatically in recent months amidst the ongoing uncertainty created by the Government’s response to Corona virus.

https://www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/clinical/use-of-anxiety-and-depression-medication-spikes-as

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This Week In Wellness popular American Osteopath and wellness blogger Dr. Joseph Mercola’s, who’s website is reported to get over 1.9 million visitors each month, has removed over 15,000 articles from his website published over the last 25 years in response to pressure from media and regulators alike, including the US-based FDA.

https://www.fox4now.com/news/coronavirus/local-doctor-removing-health-articles-after-claims-of-misinformation

https://www.mercola.com/newsletter-announcement.htm

https://www.counterhate.com/disinformationdozen

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This Week In Wellness Bayer Monsanto have announced that they will no longer sell glyphosate-based herbicides to residential U.S. gardeners as of 2023, following costly lawsuits over the cancer causing weedkiller, under the label Roundup.

https://sustainablepulse.com/2021/07/29/bayer-confirms-end-of-sale-of-glyphosate-based-herbicides-for-us-lawn-garden-market/#.YQOsP44zY2z

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This Week In Wellness new research from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis suggests that the so-called “good cholesterol”, high-density lipoprotein (HDL) has a previously unknown role in protecting the liver from injury.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/07/210722171210.htm

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/373/6553/eabe6729

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This Week In Wellness urban Aboriginal diabetes lifestyle program Too Deadly for Diabetes is creating overwhelmingly positive results in regards to weight loss, blood pressure control and glycaemic control in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people using a low-cost easy to prepare diet and flexible exercise program, providing links to YouTube videos that were sent to participants each week.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1753-6405.13092

https://toodeadlyfordiabetes.com.au/our-program

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This Week In Wellness researchers from Duke University have taken a deep dive into the metabolomics of meat and so called “near meat” showing that not surprisingly they are as different as plants and animals.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/07/210706153026.htm

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