Five-a-day – is it enough?!
Five-a-day – is it enough?! Zoe Harcombe comments on an article in The Independent about 5-a-day and heart disease, cancer and bad science.
Read more »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 »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 »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 »Forget Cholesterol and statins – here’s how you really avoid heart disease
This is a great article by Jerome Burne. If you are interested in this area, I cannot recommend highly enough “The Great Cholesterol Con” by Dr Malcolm Kendrick – funny and extremely logical, it should be compulsory reading for every public health advisor and statin prescriber world-wide. Would it surprise you to know that it [...]
Read more »Chocolate twice a week ‘protects heart victims’
No surprise that I liked this article! As a regular consumer of 85%+ cocoa dark chocolate… A Swedish study has shown that heart attack survivors, who eat dark (real) chocolate regularly are nearly 70% less likely to die from cardiac problems than those who rarely eat it. Even a weekly treat can help, almost halving [...]
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