How alcohol affects weight
Executive summary Please login to view this content Introduction We’re taking a bit of a departure this week to do
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Calories
Weight gain over Christmas
This will be the last note before Christmas, so it seems appropriate to look at a festive study that has
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Where do calories go?
Last Monday’s newsletter was the 400th! I started the Monday note in January 2011 and so I’ve just reached this
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Diet for weight maintenance
On 16th November 2018, NY Times reporter Anahad O’Connor tweeted that the number one most emailed story on the NY
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PHC Conference 2018
Dr Peter Brukner, former team doctor for the Australian cricket team, and Dr Karim Khan, editor of the British Journal
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A new 3,500 calorie formula?
A paper was published on 9th April 2018 entitled “Simulating long-term human weight-loss dynamics in response to calorie restriction” (Ref
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Why we can’t outrun a bad diet
There’s been a recent twitter debate about diet vs. exercise in weight loss. One side has the view “You can’t
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Why 100,000 extra calories don’t equal 2 stone heavier
A Dutch rice cake company has provided the story for this week. Kallo is a well known brand name –
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The Minnesota Starvation Experiment
We’re doing a classic article this week – the Minnesota Starvation Experiment. I always think I should put ‘starvation’ in
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Kekwick & Pawan: is a calorie a calorie?
I was hoping that this week’s note would report breakthroughs from the European Congress on Obesity, which was held in
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