24,000 diabetes deaths a year ‘could be avoided’
This news story broke on 14 December 2011. There are 2.3 million diabetics in the UK. The vast majority (c. 90-95%) are type 2 diabetics – all will be explained below. The remainder are type 1 diabetics. A recent (the first ever) audit on patient deaths from diabetes notes that approximately 70-75,000 diabetic patients die [...]
Read more »Red meat & diabetes?
There is an article widely reported in the media today (11 August 2011). The original research was published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. You can see the abstract for free and the article then costs $12. I bought the article, so that I can comment on the full picture and not the abstract [...]
Read more »MyPlate – the new American USDA food pyramid
The new American Food Plate was launched on Thursday 2nd June 2011. Here it is – or you can see the original on the USDA web site. Let’s start with the positive: 1) It’s much easier to understand that the current American Food Pyramid (2005): This was so complicated (and seemingly needed to be individually [...]
Read more »One in ten adults dangerously obese…
We are only obese because we are following the current diet advice. Zoe Harcombe explains…
Read more »Is aerobic exercise a waste of time?!
The headlines world-wide on 5th February 2009 were along the lines of: “MILLIONS of people who try to keep fit by jogging, cycling or going to the gym could be wasting their time, a study revealed today.” The study was an international collaboration, led by the University of London and involving teams from 14 institutions [...]
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