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In this full-day seminar geared toward the general public, Gary will address and answer questions on the following topics:

• The nature and limits of scientific investigation on the subjects of nutrition, obesity and chronic disease
• How to think about medical research and the paper-of-the-day phenomenon: what we know and what we can know.
• Understanding obesity: why we get fat from a biological perspective: what to do about it.
• Deconstructing the energy balance/homeostasis, calories-in-calories-out paradigm of obesity
• Understanding metabolic syndrome: the link between obesity, diabetes, hypertension and heart disease
• The case against sugar
• Audience guided Q&A with special guests Dr Malcom Kendrick, Dr Campbell Murdoch, Dr David Unwin, Ivor Cummins and moderated by Dr Zoë Harcombe

Note: Although this full-day seminar is geared toward the general public, practitioners and students will also find it both informative and entertaining.

In this full-day seminar geared toward healthcare professionals and students, Gary will discuss a variety of topics including:

• Critically assessing the evidence: observational epidemiology, randomized-controlled trials and meta-analyses
• The unique challenges of preventive medicine
• Obesity and diabetes cause and treatment, a historical perspective
• Why knowing the history of medicine is critically important to evaluating evidence
• Risk factors for CHD: from total cholesterol to LDL to LDL sub-fractions, particle number and Metabolic Syndrome
• Animal product-rich diets vs. Mostly Plants and the Mediterranean Diet
• SFAs vs PUFAs: critically assessing the evidence
• Nutrition and personalized medicine: is there one “healthy” diet for everyone?
• What do we know and what’s speculation?
• Audience guided Q&A with special guests Dr Andreas Eenfeldt, Dr Aseem Malhotra, Dr Campbell Murdoch, Ivor Cummins and  moderated by Dr Zoë Harcombe

Note: Although this full-day seminar is geared toward healthcare professionals and students, all who wish to attend are welcome.

Special Guests (Day One)

Dr Malcolm Kendrick Malcolm graduated from medical school in Aberdeen and trained as a General Practitioner. He now lives and works in Cheshire in general practice, Intermediate Care, and Out of Hours. He has a long term interest in the epidemiology of cardiovascular disease, and has published article in journals such as Medical Hypotheses, the BMJ and pharmaco-economics. He set up the educational on-line system for the European Society of Cardiology, working with the European Commission and also set up the first website for the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) in the UK. He has published widely on many topics. He was elected to Who’s Who in 2009 for his work in the area of cardiovascular medicine, and published the best-selling book The Great Cholesterol Con which was translated into several languages. He lectures widely on a range of medical topics, and is a member of The International Network of Cholesterol Skeptics (THINCS) a group of scientists and researchers who share the belief that cholesterol does not cause cardiovascular disease. He now writes a blog drmalcolmkendrick.org and has recently published his second book Doctoring Data which looks at how data are manipulated and distorted before being presented to the medical profession and public.

Connect with Dr Malcolm Kendrick:   Website

Dr Campbell Murdoch has a personal goal of optimising the health and wellbeing of individuals and populations. This passion has been born out of working as a GP in the NHS for 15 years in combination with postgraduate studies in sports and exercise medicine, teaching, organisational behaviour, and leadership. He also works within Somerset CCG as Person-Centred Care Lead with a determination to ensure a healthcare system and community focusses on what really matters to people.

Through his daily work Campbell became increasingly aware that the complexity of health and wellbeing required a model that assisted practical application. A simple framework called ‘The Human Five’ was born. This model encompasses the Mind, Movement, Nutrition, World and Body in a dynamic and interrelated manner.

Connect with Dr Campbell Murdoch:   Website

Dr David Unwin FRCGP is senior partner of the Norwood Surgery in Southport near Liverpool, UK where he has worked since 1986 as a family doctor. For the past few years he has been a Royal College of General Practitioners expert clinical advisor on diabetes. As a result of his interests in both better communication with patients and Type 2 diabetes he was made Royal College of General Practice National Champion for Collaborative Care and Support Planning in Obesity & Diabetes in 2015.

In 2016 he was the proud National winner of the NHS Innovator Of The Year Award for published research into lifestyle changes; working with patients’ personal health goals as an alternative to drug therapy in type 2 diabetes –so that his GP practice spends £38,000 per year less than expected on drugs for diabetes.

He is particularly interested in the low carb-diet as an alternative to lifelong medication in type 2 diabetes and obesity. As part of this he has also published research into improving liver function and blood pressure by reducing dietary carbohydrate, especially sugar.

His work has been covered by both BBC, C4 & C5 television, The New Scientist and The Times.

Connect with Dr David Unwin:   Website

Ivor Cummins BE(Chem) CEng MIEI PMP® completed a Chemical Engineering degree at UCD in 1990. He has since spent over 25 years in corporate technical leadership and management positions, and was shortlisted in 2015 as one of the top 6 of 500 applicants for "Irish Chartered Engineer of the Year". Ivor's focus and specialty is leading teams in complex problem-solving scenarios. He has often led worldwide teams with over 60-70 engineers working on major technical issues; the largest of these involved product issues where hundreds of millions of dollars were in the balance.

Several years ago, Ivor encountered a complex technical challenge in his personal life. Receiving poor blood test results, he was unable to get solutions via the doctors consulted. He thus embarked on an intense period of biochemical research into the science of human metabolism. Within eight weeks he had resolved and optimized all of his blood test metrics. Also, he had shed over 15Kg of bodyfat with relative ease. In the following years he continued his research on the many "root causes" of modern disease, from "cholesterol" through to insulin resistance. He has become a professional speaker of note, giving many public lectures and chairing interviews with worldwide health experts. Most notably he was invited by the President of the British Association for Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation (BACPR) to give a keynote talk on heart disease root causes, at their annual conference in London last October. All of Ivor's public lectures and interviews are available on his YouTube channel, where nearly a million views have been recorded to date.

His book on chronic disease root causes and resolution strategies (co-authored with Denver doctor Jeffry Gerber MD, FAAFP will be released by a major US publisher on February 27th 2018:

Connect with Ivor Cummins:   Website

Dr Zoë Harcombe (Q&A Moderator) is a Cambridge graduate and author of six books including Why do you overeat? When all you want is to be slim? (2004 & 2013); Stop Counting Calories & Start Losing Weight (2008) and The Obesity Epidemic: What caused it? How can we stop it? (2010).

Zoë has a PhD in public health nutrition. Her thesis was entitled “An examination of the randomised controlled trial and epidemiological evidence for the introduction of dietary fat recommendations in 1977 and 1983: A systematic review and meta-analysis.” A number of peer-reviewed articles have emanated from this work [1-9].

Appearing regularly on radio and TV, regionally and nationally, Zoë has had the opportunity to participate in: Sky News; Steve Wright in the Afternoon; Radio 4's The Food Programme; ITV’s Tonight programme; and BBC Newsnight. Further afield, she has been interviewed by America's Fox News and Cape Town radio. Zoë has written for most national UK newspapers and magazines.

Zoë passionately believes that current dietary advice is wrong and that populations need to return to eating the real food that we ate before we had epidemics of obesity and diabetes. Apparently this is a controversial proposition! Zoë shares her views at conferences worldwide and in her highly-accessed diet and nutrition blog.

Connect with Dr Zoë Harcombe:   Website

Special Guests (Day Two)

During the last seven years Dr Andreas Eenfeldt has authored the biggest health blog in Sweden and a #1 best-selling book on nutrition that’s been translated to eight languages, including English. He may be partly responsible for a recent butter shortage in his home country, and one of his conference presentations on LCHF has been viewed over 600,000 times on YouTube.

Dr Eenfeldt spent twelve years working as a doctor and eight of those years as a family physician, treating patients with LCHF diets. During that time he witnessed tremendous success for people with obesity and type 2 diabetes. But despite that, helping one person at a time couldn’t change the status quo. So in 2015 he quit.

Now he runs the fast-growing health site DietDoctor.com as the founder and owner, together with 16 co-workers. The site is completely free from ads, product sales or industry sponsorship and instead fully funded by the people, via an optional membership.

Dr Eenfeldt lives in Karlstad, Sweden with his significant other and their two young daughters. He spends just about all his waking hours either with his family or working on DietDoctor.com.

Connect with Dr Andreas Eenfeldt:   Website

When he is not working as a doctor in the National Health Service, Aseem Malhotra reigns supreme in his fight to raise awareness about the health benefits of a sugar-free diet, maintaining that sugar deserves its reputation as "Public Health Enemy Number 1". His no-holds-barred approach to challenging common health beliefs is proving highly effective in getting medical professionals and social authorities from around the world to sit up and take notice. He is regularly invited to speak at national and international conferences.

Aseem supports studies that implicate sugar as the number one culprit driving obesity, type 2 diabetes and heart disease, and has worked with a leading sports scientist to dispel the myth that links physical inactivity and obesity. The British Journal of Sports Medicine published their editorial providing evidence that sugar and excess carbohydrates were primarily responsible for the global surge in type 2 diabetes and obesity. A subsequent commentary Aseem wrote in the Washington Post had over 1.1 million page views. He has since become one of the leading doctors in the world fighting the obesity epidemic, named on a list of anti-obesity activists that includes Michelle Obama and Michael Bloomberg.

Connect with Dr Aseem Malhotra:   Website

Dr Campbell Murdoch has a personal goal of optimising the health and wellbeing of individuals and populations. This passion has been born out of working as a GP in the NHS for 15 years in combination with postgraduate studies in sports and exercise medicine, teaching, organisational behaviour, and leadership. He also works within Somerset CCG as Person-Centred Care Lead with a determination to ensure a healthcare system and community focusses on what really matters to people.

Through his daily work Campbell became increasingly aware that the complexity of health and wellbeing required a model that assisted practical application. A simple framework called ‘The Human Five’ was born. This model encompasses the Mind, Movement, Nutrition, World and Body in a dynamic and interrelated manner.

Connect with Dr Campbell Murdoch:   Website

Ivor Cummins BE(Chem) CEng MIEI PMP® completed a Chemical Engineering degree at UCD in 1990. He has since spent over 25 years in corporate technical leadership and management positions, and was shortlisted in 2015 as one of the top 6 of 500 applicants for "Irish Chartered Engineer of the Year". Ivor's focus and specialty is leading teams in complex problem-solving scenarios. He has often led worldwide teams with over 60-70 engineers working on major technical issues; the largest of these involved product issues where hundreds of millions of dollars were in the balance.

Several years ago, Ivor encountered a complex technical challenge in his personal life. Receiving poor blood test results, he was unable to get solutions via the doctors consulted. He thus embarked on an intense period of biochemical research into the science of human metabolism. Within eight weeks he had resolved and optimized all of his blood test metrics. Also, he had shed over 15Kg of bodyfat with relative ease. In the following years he continued his research on the many "root causes" of modern disease, from "cholesterol" through to insulin resistance. He has become a professional speaker of note, giving many public lectures and chairing interviews with worldwide health experts. Most notably he was invited by the President of the British Association for Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation (BACPR) to give a keynote talk on heart disease root causes, at their annual conference in London last October. All of Ivor's public lectures and interviews are available on his YouTube channel, where nearly a million views have been recorded to date.

His book on chronic disease root causes and resolution strategies (co-authored with Denver doctor Jeffry Gerber MD, FAAFP will be released by a major US publisher on February 27th 2018:

Connect with Ivor Cummins:   Website

Dr Zoë Harcombe (Q&A Moderator) is a Cambridge graduate and author of six books including Why do you overeat? When all you want is to be slim? (2004 & 2013); Stop Counting Calories & Start Losing Weight (2008) and The Obesity Epidemic: What caused it? How can we stop it? (2010).

Zoë has a PhD in public health nutrition. Her thesis was entitled “An examination of the randomised controlled trial and epidemiological evidence for the introduction of dietary fat recommendations in 1977 and 1983: A systematic review and meta-analysis.” A number of peer-reviewed articles have emanated from this work [1-9].

Appearing regularly on radio and TV, regionally and nationally, Zoë has had the opportunity to participate in: Sky News; Steve Wright in the Afternoon; Radio 4's The Food Programme; ITV’s Tonight programme; and BBC Newsnight. Further afield, she has been interviewed by America's Fox News and Cape Town radio. Zoë has written for most national UK newspapers and magazines.

Zoë passionately believes that current dietary advice is wrong and that populations need to return to eating the real food that we ate before we had epidemics of obesity and diabetes. Apparently this is a controversial proposition! Zoë shares her views at conferences worldwide and in her highly-accessed diet and nutrition blog.

Connect with Dr Zoë Harcombe:   Website

Gary Taubes is an investigative science and health journalist and co-founder of the non-profit Nutrition Science Initiative (NuSI.org). He is the author of The Case Against Sugar (2016), Why We Get Fat and What to Do About It (2011) and Good Calories, Bad Calories (2007), published as The Diet Delusion in the UK. Taubes is the recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research, and has won numerous other awards for his journalism. These include the International Health Reporting Award from the Pan American Health Organization and the National Association of Science Writers Science in Society Journalism Award, which he won in 1996, 1999 and 2001. (He is the first print journalist to win this award three times.) Taubes graduated from Harvard College in 1977 with an S.B. degree in applied physics, and received an M.S. degree in engineering from Stanford University (1978) and in journalism from Columbia University (1981).

The Case Against Sugar: Among Americans, diabetes is more prevalent today than ever; obesity is at epidemic proportions; nearly 10% of children are thought to have nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. And sugar is at the root of these, and other, critical society-wide, health-related problems. With his signature command of both science and straight talk, Gary Taubes delves into our history with sugar: its uses as a preservative, as an additive in cigarettes, the contemporary overuse of high-fructose corn syrup. He explains what research has shown about our addiction to sweets. He clarifies the arguments against sugar, corrects misconceptions about the relationship between sugar and weight loss; and provides the perspective necessary to make informed decisions about sugar as individuals and as a society.

Why We Get Fat: What’s making us fat? And how can we change? Building upon his critical work in Good Calories, Bad Calories and presenting fresh evidence for his claim, bestselling author Gary Taubes revisits these urgent questions.

Taubes reveals the bad nutritional science of the last century—none more damaging or misguided than the “calories-in, calories-out” model of why we get fat—and the good science that has been ignored. He also answers the most persistent questions: Why are some people thin and others fat? What roles do exercise and genetics play in our weight? What foods should we eat, and what foods should we avoid? Persuasive, straightforward, and practical, Why We Get Fat is an essential guide to nutrition and weight management.he arguments against sugar, corrects misconceptions about the relationship between sugar and weight loss; and provides the perspective necessary to make informed decisions about sugar as individuals and as a society.

The Diet Delusion (Good Calories, Bad Calories in the U.S.): Where mainstream nutritional science has demonised dietary fat for 50 years, hundreds of millions of dollars of research have failed to prove that eating a low-fat diet will help you live longer. Nutrition and obesity scientists have struggled to make sense of the paradox that obesity has become an epidemic, that diabetes rates have soared and the incidence of heart disease has not declined despite the fact that society is more diet and health aware today than generations ago. "The Diet Delusion" is an in-depth, scientific, groundbreaking examination of what actually happens in your body as a result of what you eat, rather than what the diet industry might have you believe happens and is essential reading for anyone trying to decide which diet - low-fat or low-carbohydrate - is truly the healthy diet. For years we have been deluded by the dieting industry. Now it's time to find out the truth.

America Square Conference & Events Centre

1 America Square
17 Crosswall
London EC3N 2LB

Map & Schedule

Day One (17 March)
10:00am to 4:00pm

Day Two (18 March)
10:00am to 4:00pm

(lunch is not provided)

A lucky group of people will have the opportunity to dine with Gary in an informal setting and get to know what makes him tick as well as enjoying the company of likeminded friends — all while enjoying a stunning six course menu.

Dinner Details (Please note new date & venue)

Price: £99

Date: 17 March 2017
Time: 6PM to 9PM

The Menu

Wood Pigeon, Cavolo Nero, Wild Mushrooms, Hazelnuts

Purple Sprouting Broccoli, Hollandaise, Pumpkin Seeds

Pickles

Cuttlefish Ink Stew, Foccacia, Gremolata

Rib of Beef, Beetroot, Anchoide, Nasturtium

Baked Ricotta and Lemon Torte

• Wine or alcoholic beverages are not included •

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