Cochrane saturated fat reviews
Executive summary * This week’s note examines the latest Cochrane report to be published on saturated fat and health outcomes
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Macronutrients
Animal Based Low Carb vs Plant Based Low Fat Diets
Executive summary Please login to view this content Introduction There’s been quite a lot of chatter online about this week’s
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Dietary Fat & Mortality
Executive summary Please login to view this content Introduction We are getting back to home turf this week – diet
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High protein diets & kidney disease
Executive summary Please login to view this content Introduction In December 2019, ‘Anon’ asked if I could review an article
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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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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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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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