DASH vs American diet
Executive Summary * This week’s note looks at the DASH diet trial, which was conducted in the 1990s. DASH stands
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Other Diets & Books
The impact of meal frequency, size & timing on weight
Executive Summary * A study examined the association between weight change and a number of aspects of eating, which were
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Plant based diets & mortality
Executive summary * This week’s note examines a paper about plant-based diets and mortality. The paper was based on a
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Reflections on The Great Plant-Based Con
I was chatting to someone at the May 2022 Public Health Collaboration conference (after I had done my “Should we
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Should we be vegan?
Executive summary * This note summarises the history of the Public Health Collaboration conferences since the first one was held
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Time restricted eating & weight loss
Executive summary * This week’s note reviews a randomised controlled trial, which assessed whether calorie restriction with time-restricted eating was
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Low-carb diets, cortisol & testosterone
Executive summary * A systematic review (look at all evidence) and meta-analysis (pool it together to see the overall effect)
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Cochrane review of low-carb diets
Executive summary * A 456 page Cochrane review has been published. It examined low-carbohydrate diets vs balanced-carbohydrate diets for reducing
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Who follows a carnivore diet?
Executive summary * A study has been published, which reported the results of a survey of over 2,000 people who
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Keto diets & kidney stones
Executive summary * This week’s study produced the headline finding that the estimated incidence of kidney stones in patients on
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