Cholesterol & heart disease – there is a relationship, but it’s not what you think

Written by Zoë on November 23, 2010 - 2 Comments
Categories: Research

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 [...]

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Statins with your burger? Better add a pregnancy test too

Written by Zoë on August 13, 2010 - 8 Comments
Categories: Conflict, Media comments

This story came out on 12 August 2010. I follow BBC Health news on Twitter and they announced: “Fast food outlets should consider handing out cholesterol-lowering drugs to combat the effects of fatty food, link here The article opens with: “Fast food outlets should consider handing out cholesterol-lowering drugs to combat the effects of fatty [...]

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Ban butter to save lives says heart surgeon

Written by Zoë on January 18, 2010 - 3 Comments
Categories: Conflict, Media comments

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 [...]

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