Plant based diet or plant-biased research?
On 7th November (2018) I submitted a rapid response to an article called “Effectiveness of plant-based diets in promoting well-being
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World diabetes day
World Diabetes Day is held on the 14th November each year. In last year’s newsletter I looked at the International
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Plant based diet & diabetes
Thanks go to Marika Sboros for this week’s note. She alerted me to a paper that was published in the
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Type 1 diabetes and gluten
This week’s interesting paper was genuinely attention grabbing for the simple reason that it reported an association of double. We
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Keto diet, mice & diabetes
This is my favourite part of Dr Jason Fung’s fabulous book The Obesity Code. It’s called “The Parable of the
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Cereals spike blood glucose
On 11th June 2018, during “Diabetes Week”, I tweeted: “T2D prevention plan: Give everyone a Libre blood glucose device for
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Diet for Type 2 Diabetes (DiRECT) (Part 2)
There has been much interest in the DiRECT diet – the low calorie intervention for putting type 2 diabetes (T2D)
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Diet for Type 2 Diabetes (DiRECT)
Other than finding a cure for cancer, there is probably no greater prize in healthcare than curing Type 2 Diabetes.
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Type 2 diabetes WILL get worse without lifestyle change
We’re returning to the omnipresent topic of type 2 diabetes this week because there was a study published on 11th
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Reversing diabetes (type 2)
On 5th December 2017, we woke up to the headlines: “A cure for diabetes: Crash diet can REVERSE Type 2
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