Statins in the over 75s
A rapid response was published in the BMJ here. Introduction The Cholesterol Treatment Trialists’ (CTT) Collaboration has been quiet for
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Diet & Weight
Slimming World’s view of low carb diets
The UK Sun newspaper seems to have been the first to pick up this story: “‘CARBFUSION’ Low-carb diets are ‘damaging
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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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World Obesity Day
October 11th (2018) was World Obesity Day. World Obesity Day was launched in 2015 by the World Obesity Federation “to
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Food in the Canary Islands
A few years ago we fell in love with the Canary Islands. There are seven islands – in order or
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A new miracle diet pill?
We were still digesting ‘that (not) low-carb study’ when stories started to emerge from the European Society of Cardiology conference,
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Keto diet, mice & diabetes
This is my favourite part of Dr Jason Fung’s fabulous book The Obesity Code. It’s called “The Parable of the
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Men, Women & Dieting
This week’s note comes from a global collaboration between researchers in Europe, Australia and New Zealand. The research was reported
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