Red meat & Type 2 Diabetes
Executive summary * This week’s study made media headlines worldwide and generated much interest on Twitter. * It claimed that
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Food & Nutrition
Does salt cause metabolic syndrome?
Executive summary * A paper called “Dietary salt intake predicts future development of metabolic syndrome in the general population” has
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Ultra-processed food & health
Executive summary * A story about ultra-processed foods (UPFs) made headlines. The story was generated by two, short, poster presentations
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Protein & Cirrhosis of the liver
Executive summary * This week’s paper is our first from Iran. It shouldn’t have got through peer review, but it
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The Basics of Nutrition – Minerals
Introduction This is the final part of the three-part note on the basics of nutrition. This week, we’re looking at
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The Basics of Nutrition – Vitamins
Introduction Micronutrients are, as the name suggests, those needed by the body in smaller quantities. (Macro meaning large and micro
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The Basics of Nutrition – Macronutrients
Introduction Food (noun): “Substance taken into body to maintain life and growth; nutriment” (Ref 1). In a world where food
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Saturated fat & Parkinson’s Disease
Executive Summary * A Swedish population study reviewed the association between dietary fat intake and the incidence of Parkinson’s Disease
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The best rebuttals for nutritional myths
Executive Summary This note takes 10 nutritional myths and aims to provide the best rebuttal for each of them. 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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