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Dr Gary Fettke, orthopedic surgeon, banned from giving nutritional advice
Now my favorite speaker on the subject of cancer and diet as an adjuvant treatment, is banned from giving nutritional advice! Australia takes a similar step as South Africa with Dr Tim Noakes, and bans an outspoken critic of the government's dietary guidelines.
http://foodmed.net/2016/08/13/gary-...hf-ahpra-hpcsa/
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Gary Fettke turns into Australia's Tim Noakes
By Marika Sboros
The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) has banned orthopaedic surgeon Dr Gary Fettke from giving his patients nutrition advice. It has done so after a two-year “investigation” into Fettke’s qualifications.
Elements of this case mirror the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) case against Prof Tim Noakes. Noakes is a world-renowned scientist who is also a medical doctor. The AHPRA case effectively makes Fettke into the “Tim Noakes of Australia”.
There are big differences but both the AHPRA and the HPCSA cases open up a medical Pandora’s box. Both go to the heart of what it means to be a real “doctor of medicine”. And who is best qualified to give advice on nutrition: Both these cases boil down to a medical and dietetic battle for territory. In both cases, the regulatory agencies take up cudgels on one side of that battle. They support powerful vested interests propping up the territories. That makes the only real surprise here that the AHPRA has taken so long to act against Fettke.
Unlike in Noakes’ case, the AHPRA has conducted its “investigation” behind closed doors. Fettke doesn’t know who complained to the AHPRA about him. The HPCSA case is conducted in the full glare of the public. Noakes also knows who started the ball rolling against him in 2014. Johannesburg dietitian Claire Julsing Strydom, then president of the Association for Dietetics in SA (ADSA). ADSA is the South African counterpart of the Dietitians Association of Australia (DAA). Both are voluntary bodies and hugely influential in setting public health policy relating to diet and nutrition. Both support the status quo. The HPCSA case against Noakes centres around giving “unconventional advice on a social network” (Twitter). That was for two tweets in which Noakes said good first foods for infant weaning are low-carb, high-fat (LCHF). In other words, meat and veg, according to LCHF theory. The HPCSA has tried – and failed – to create the impression that its case is not about the science for LCHF. That it isn’t about conventional nutrition advice based on high-carb, low-fat (HCLF) and the vested interests that support it. And the careers and reputations that will fall if LCHF becomes mainstream.
The AHPRA has gone to great lengths to suggest its case against Fettke is not about LCHF. Or as Fettke practises and calls it, low-carb, healthy fat. It has told Fettke not to “provide specific advice or recommendations on the subject of nutrition and how it relates to the management of diabetes or the treatment and/or prevention of cancer”. Fettke, apart from being a practising orthopaedic surgeon, is also a senior lecturer at the University of Tasmania. He has been researching nutrition for more than a decade now.
As an orthopaedic surgeon, he has a longstanding interest in the preventative aspects of health outcomes, particularly before operating on patients. Many are obese and diabetic and come to him with weight-related issues with joint pathology and arthritis. Fettke’s interest in and extensive knowledge of nutrition is also because he is a cancer survivor. He has had orthodox treatment. His research led him to adopt a specific dietary lifestyle (which he calls low-carb, healthy fat, including saturated). He is not against orthodox treatment for cancer. He simply believes that the right diet ups the odds of long-term survival. He advocates for the metabolic model of cancer and an integrative approach to treatment that includes nutrition. In so doing, Fettke goes up against powerful vested interests in the pharmaceutical and medical industries.
Fettke is founder and mentor of the team at Nutrition for Life located in Launceston and Hobart providing nutritional care around Tasmania and Australia. He has launched social media, grassroots campaigns against excessive sugar and processed food consumption in the Australian diet. Therein probably lie some of the main drivers of the AHPRA action against him. Chief among is the power of orthodoxy and the perils of challenging it. Long article continues....
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The No Fructose FB page, now with his wife's name: https://www.facebook.com/thegarysci...=nf&pnref=story
Sugar Makes You Hungry, Carbohydrates Make You Fat, and Polyunsaturated Oils Make You Inflamed and Sick.
http://www.nofructose.com
Dr. Gary Fettke Nutrition and Cancer, Time to Rethink. https://youtu.be/FPLZ0gbxBBQ : Sept 2015 talk, 37 minutes, or the shorter 23 minute version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa5Bcm8T9nU.
Last edited by JEY100 : Sat, Aug-13-16 at 06:01.
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