Teen goes blind on junk food diet
Executive summary Please login to view this content Introduction I received a call from BBC Radio Wales early on September
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Nutrition
Time to rethink saturated fat?!
Executive summary Please login to view this content Introduction We had the absolute delight of hosting Dr Peter Brukner and
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Low carb diets and mortality
Introduction This week we’re looking at a classic article, which was published in January 2013. It was called “Low-Carbohydrate Diets
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Is a vegan diet safe for infants and children?
Executive summary – A vegan Facebook group has encouraged the reporting of a registered dietician to her licensing body because
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The EAT Lancet diet is nutritionally deficient
A report was published in The Lancet on 17th January 2019. The report was commissioned by The Lancet. The report
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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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Vitamin D supplements
A study in the Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology journal made global headlines on Friday 5th October. The Huffington Post announced:”Vitamin
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Low carb diets could shorten life (really?!)
The BBC headline was ”Low-carb diets could shorten life, study suggests” (Ref 1). In the US, CNN went with “Low
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Low, moderate or high carbohydrate?
In 1977 the Senator McGovern committee issued some dietary goals for Americans (Ref 1). The first goal was “Increase carbohydrate
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