Saturated fat – a reprieve?
Executive summary * This week’s note looks at a recent paper, which concluded that "instead of only paying attention to
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Food & Nutrition
Global meat trade & health
Executive summary * A study recently claimed that 5,000 people die each year because of trade of red and processed
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Food Compass – Part 2
Executive summary The executive summary for the two notes can be seen here. Introduction Last week we did the first
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Food Compass – Part 1
Executive summary * This is the first of a two part examination of a new nutrient profiling system (NPS) –
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Australian women – carbs & fat
Executive summary * A study of approximately 10,000 middle-aged Australian women examined the association between carbohydrate and saturated fat intake
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‘Fast’ & ‘slow’ carbs
Executive summary * A study has just been published, which claimed to have definitively demonstrated that ‘fast’ carbs do not
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Meat & heart disease
Executive summary * Another attack on meat was published in July 2021. This one concluded that 50g/day more UNprocessed meat
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What should we eat?
“This magical, marvellous food on our plate, this sustenance we absorb, has a story to tell. It has a journey.
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Plant-based ‘meat’ vs grass-fed meat
Executive summary * A paper was published in Nature Scientific Reports in July 2021. It used an analytical profiling technique
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Plant-based diets & COVID-19
Executive Summary (I had a rapid response published on this). * A paper was published in BMJ Nutrition Prevention &
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