Cholesterol & heart disease – there is a relationship, but it’s not what you think
I do a fortnightly newsletter called “Diet & Health Today” in our on line support club. The club is there to help people to lose weight by eating food – real food! Apparently that makes us radical and controversial. The main article in Diet & Health Today is called “The Big Issues” and we have [...]
Read more »Ban butter to save lives says heart surgeon
Shyam Kolvekar (a heart surgeon) is all over the news today having asserted that Butter should be banned to save thousands of lives. The Daily Mail asserted “Saturated fat is blamed for a third of the 200,000 premature deaths from heart disease a year.” Facts please, Daily Mail?! There is not even a consistent association [...]
Read more »Third of heart deaths blamed on overweight
In a 10 year study of 20,000 men and women aged 20 to 65, Dutch scientists have found that being overweight accounted for half of fatal heart disease cases. The people in the study were more overweight than the average, so they allowed for this in their prediction that this meant 1 in 3 fatalities [...]
Read more »Side-effect alert for all statin users
At last, new health warnings are to be issued about statins. Can you believe that more than 6m adults in the UK (that’s over 12% of our adult population) are on these very lucrative drugs? (Lipitor alone has brought in $12.9 billion for Pfizer – and still counting!) Twenty years ago, GP’s would only get [...]
Read more »Nutritionist reviews ready meals
This was quite an interesting article on ready meals. A mum and a 10 year old girl gave their views on a selection of ready meals – from Sainsbury’s, Morrison’s, Tesco, Co-op, M&S and Waitrose. The girl was really funny – her verdict on the Sainsbury’s “Tropical Pork & Peppers” was “it looked like the [...]
Read more »Benecol vs Butter
The ingredients in Benecol Olive spread are: Water, Rapeseed oil, Olive oil, Plant stanol ester (plant stanol 7%), Vegetable oil, Buttermilk powder, Salt (0.9%), Emulsifiers (mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids, soya lecithins), Preservative (potassium sorbate), Acidity regulator (citric acid), Flavorings, Vitamin A, Color (carotenes), Vitamin D. The ingredients in butter are: butter. Which one [...]
Read more »Heart attack rate rising for women
This is a really interesting development. The heart attack rate in women is rising. A study of 8,000 people between 1988 – 1994 and then 1999-2004 showed that 2.5% of men and 0.7% of women experienced a heart attack in the first period and 2.2% of men and 1% of women had a heart attack [...]
Read more »Saturated fat vs unsaturated fat
You’d be suprised; Olive oil has more saturated fat than a fatty pork chop. Download Real food vs Processed vs saturated fat Factsheet Tweet This Post Delicious Digg This Post Facebook MySpace
Read more »Eating saturated fat does not cause heart disease – Part 1
Here are a couple of videos that question the relationship between fat consumption and heart disease. These videos are a tribute to Dr Malcolm Kendrick (The Great Cholesterol Con – highly recommended) and Gary Taubes (The Diet Delusion – also highly recommended) and a number of other people I have come across this year (Anthony [...]
Read more »Eating saturated fat does not cause heart disease – Part 2
Eating Saturated fat does not cause heart disease – Part 2 Eating Fat Does Not Cause Heart Disease – Part 2 from Zoe Harcombe on Vimeo. Tweet This Post Delicious Digg This Post Facebook MySpace
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