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Meat consumption and mortality

An article entitled “Meat consumption and mortality – results from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer [EPIC] and Nutrition” was published on 7 March 2013 in the BMC Medicine Journal. The full PDF is available here. The article led to the usual sensational headlines across the world – the BBC; CBC News Canada; The Herald [...]

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Salt Awareness Week – 10 things to be aware of

March 11-17 2013 is “Salt Awareness Week” in the UK – what exactly might we like to be aware of? Let’s get some definitions out of the way first. Salt can be unrefined or refined. Unrefined salt is also known as sea salt. Unrefined (sea) salt comes with many valuable minerals and natural elements. Refined [...]

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Australian Dietary Guidelines (Feb 2013)

New Australian Dietary Guidelines were published on February 18th 2013. Hundreds of pages of information are available here. The main “Eat for health: Australian Dietary Guidelines” document alone is 226 pages. The latest guidelines acknowledge the extent of the problem: “If current trends continue in Australia, it is estimated that by 2025, 83% of men [...]

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The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges obesity initiative – Stephanie Seneff’s submission

Back in April 2012, The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges announced that they were launching a review into the UK “obesity crisis”. The initiative was launched in a front page article in The Observer 15th April 2012. The idea was that the body that represents 220,000 doctors in the UK would seek evidence from any [...]

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The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges obesity initiative – my submission

Back in April 2012, The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges announced that they were launching a review into the UK “obesity crisis”. The initiative was launched in a front page article in The Observer 15th April 2012. The idea was that the body that represents 220,000 doctors in the UK would seek evidence from any [...]

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High intake of saturated fat & sperm quality in Danish men

“Eating a fatty diet could reduce a man’s sperm count by 40%” said the Daily Mail – enough to put every man off his bacon & egg. The Globe and Mail warned similarly: “Eating too much saturated fat may decrease sperm counts.” The headlines came from a study published in the American Journal of Clinical [...]

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RCPCH launches vitamin D campaign

Rickets describes a condition where bones are abnormally weak and the skeletal structure is thus compromised. It used to be visually observable in Victorian times, as children suffering from malnutrition would exhibit ‘bow legs’ – curved deformity in their limbs. Today’s cases more typically manifest themselves in bones breaking easily, rather than visual signs. Rickets [...]

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Just cut fat to cut fat?!

An article was published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) on Thursday 6th December 2012. It led to a few articles in the media on Friday 7th December. The BMJ article was called: “Effect of reducing total fat intake on body weight: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials and cohort studies“. It wasn’t [...]

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People can be fat yet fit, however…

“People can be fat yet fit, research suggests” was the BBC headline. “People can be fat AND fit as study finds obesity doesn’t automatically lead to ill-health” claimed the Daily Mail. “Fat but fit people as healthy as normal weight ones: research” was The Telegraph’s take on the study. And the story was covered from [...]

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Egg yolk consumption, carotid plaque & bad science

“Egg yolks linked to heart disease” screamed the headlines on Monday 6th August 2012.  The newspaper article came from a journal article called “Egg yolk consumption and carotid plaque“. I really have got better things to do than to continually dissect articles from so called scientists, but, when the item under attack is the super [...]

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