The Rice Diet
Executive summary * This week’s note was inspired by a newsletter about a presentation (by Denise Minger) about a diet
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Diet & Weight
Mediterranean diet, Biobank & dementia
Executive summary * The UK Biobank population data were used for a study to see if a so-called Mediterranean diet
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Lecanemab for Alzheimer’s Disease
Executive summary * This week, we’re looking at two published papers about a drug called lecanemab, which is intended to
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MIND diet & cognitive decline
Executive summary * The anacronym MIND stands for Mediterranean–DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay. The diet is the fruit/veg/grain/legume, largely plant-based,
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Keto-like diet & heart disease
Executive summary * This post is unusually about a press release, which in turn was about a conference presentation. *
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DASH vs very low carb – an RCT
Executive Summary * The results from a 16-week randomised controlled trial (RCT) have been published. The trial compared the DASH
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Healthy low carb & low fat diets
Executive Summary * A study about mortality and healthy and unhealthy, low-carb and low-fat, diets received much coverage. * The
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Mediterranean diet, women & heart disease
Executive Summary * A widely reported study claimed that adherence to ‘the Mediterranean diet’ would reduce the risk of early
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Low-carb diets & insulin resistance
Executive Summary * A study was published claiming that low-carbohydrate diets were associated with insulin resistance. Insulin resistance is the
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The chocolate study that fooled the world
Executive Summary * In 2015, three German reporters set about trying to do a study, which would get published in
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