Denmark Fat Tax
In March 2003, Denmark became the first country in the world to introduce laws to severely restrict consumption of trans fats. This has been reported as a ban on trans fats, but the law is on ingredients rather than final products and the limit was placed at 2% of fats and oils to be used [...]
Read more »Make Friends With Fats
Here is the full presentation that I did at The Abergavenny Food Festival on Saturday, 17th September. And you can download the presentation slides here Tweet This Post Delicious Digg This Post Facebook MySpace
Read more »Olive Oil can Tap Dance!
Time to set the record straight on olive oil, or it won’t be long before we see the title of this thread as the next Daily Mail article! Here is the Daily Mail article from 19 April 2010. Olive oil can now apparently switch off genes and previous articles have told us that olive oil [...]
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 »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 »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
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 »How a hamburger on Friday can make you hungry on Monday
Another completely inaccurate article where scientists have shown, yet again, that they don’t know the difference between their macro nutrients (this is the collective term for carbs, fats and protein). Researchers at the University of Texas claim to have shown that saturated fats trick the body into switching off the system that tells us how [...]
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