Healthy low carb & low fat diets
Executive Summary * A study about mortality and healthy and unhealthy, low-carb and low-fat, diets received much coverage. * The
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Other Diets & Books
Mediterranean diet, women & heart disease
Executive Summary * A widely reported study claimed that adherence to ‘the Mediterranean diet’ would reduce the risk of early
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Low-carb diets & insulin resistance
Executive Summary * A study was published claiming that low-carbohydrate diets were associated with insulin resistance. Insulin resistance is the
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DASH vs American diet
Executive Summary * This week’s note looks at the DASH diet trial, which was conducted in the 1990s. DASH stands
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The impact of meal frequency, size & timing on weight
Executive Summary * A study examined the association between weight change and a number of aspects of eating, which were
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Plant based diets & mortality
Executive summary * This week’s note examines a paper about plant-based diets and mortality. The paper was based on a
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Reflections on The Great Plant-Based Con
I was chatting to someone at the May 2022 Public Health Collaboration conference (after I had done my “Should we
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Should we be vegan?
Executive summary * This note summarises the history of the Public Health Collaboration conferences since the first one was held
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Time restricted eating & weight loss
Executive summary * This week’s note reviews a randomised controlled trial, which assessed whether calorie restriction with time-restricted eating was
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Low-carb diets, cortisol & testosterone
Executive summary * A systematic review (look at all evidence) and meta-analysis (pool it together to see the overall effect)
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