Dr James Muecke AM - The Solution to the Type 2 Diabetes Epidemic

Dr James Muecke AM is our 2020 Australian of the Year for his work as an eye surgeon over many decades restoring sight for thousands of people around the world. His non-profit organisation Sight For All educates both patients and opthalmic/optometric health practitioners in countries around the world and has seen a correlative rise of poor eye health with Type 2 Diabetes. This led Dr Muecke to investigate the causal factors behind Type 2 Diabetes which he now considers to be a 'largely preventable and potentially reversible man-made lifestyle disease'. He places the blame at the feet of insane consumption levels of fructose, with a secondary contributor industrial seed oils, causing inflammation and damage throughout bodily systems manifesting early and clearly in the delicate structure of the eye. He is a campaigner for 'Awareness, Accountability and Assistance' around the exploding Type 2 Diabetes epidemic globally. Watch this interview on Youtube: https://youtu.be/xepCz3T_1wI --------------------------------------------------- Dr James Mucke AM: https://www.facebook.com/drjamesmuecke https://www.instagram.com/jsmuecke https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-muecke-am-a1621812 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfdh4nu57i7C5tSPbXbr-kw Sight for All http://www.sightforall.org https://www.facebook.com/SightForAll https://www.instagram.com/sightforall https://www.linkedin.com/company/sight-for-all --------------------------------------------------- 00:58 Can we cure Type 2 Diabetes? 1:45 Surgeons noticing diabetes on the rise 5:12 How Type 2 Diabetes causes blindness 8:15 How Neil Hansell went completely blind overnight 10:59 The eye is delicate enough to give early warning of type 2 diabetes 16:01 The evils of sugar and refined carbohydrates 21:13 Sugar and industrial seed oils (not fat) cause cardiovascular disease 28:54 Fructose is treated differently than glucose in the body 31:05 Metabolic dysfunction due to high triglycerides, high insulin and high glucose 32:30 Industrial seed oils, not fat, causing artery blockages 34:58 Saturated fats are critical to human development and survival 36:15 KFC and McDonalds swapped natural fats for industrial seed oils 38:00 Only proteins and fats are essential nutrients - not carbohydrates 40:57 Asian explosion of Type 2 Diabetes due to western dietary influences 41:59 Vegetarian diets are high in carbohydrate 42:59 What are healthy fats? 43:56 Veganism is a nutrient poor diet that relies on supplementation drive by the processed foods industry 45:25 What is a healthy diet? 48:02 Breakfast is not the most important meal of the day 50:22 A legitimate way to eat 52:57 The packaged food industry - 'food like substances' 53:10 Awareness, Accountability, Assistance to overcome the ultra processed food industry 58:03 Targeting poor populations with addictive, ultra processed food 1:00:40 Alleviating pains and chasing dopamine rewards through processed food 1:04:15 School lunchboxes 1:06:42 The strategy to fight back - awareness campaigns, regulation of advertising to children etc 1:10:59 Different names of sugar and artificial sweeteners 1:12:10 Using non nutritive sweeteners to transition away from sugar 1:13:00 The dietetics profession and official guidelines 1:18:00 The magic wand - remove ultra processed foods