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Can Atkins diet raise heart attack risk for women?

So screamed the headlines on Wednesday 27th June 2012. This was the full article in the BMJ, which was behind the headlines. Another irresponsible article, more misleading headlines – both the article and headlines ignorant about nutrition and the composition of food. There seem to be one of these a day at the moment and [...]

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Diabetes UK & Low Carb Diets – what is the official advice for diabetics?

Introduction The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimated that there were 171 million diabetes sufferers worldwide before the end of the last century. The (WHO) estimates that this will rise to 366 million by 2030.  To use another data source to fill in some blanks and to get a longer timescale picture, another 2006 article estimates that [...]

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Doughnuts are not the enemy, claims the professor of obesity

A verbatim extract from the article: Professor Glenn Gaesser, an obesity expert from the University of Virginia, analysed the eating habits and health of hundreds of thousands of men and women and found those who feasted on carbs were often thinner, than those who severely limited their carb intake. He said; I found, totally contrary [...]

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