Saturated Fat Consultation (SACN) – My Response
At the recent Swiss Re/The BMJ Food for Thought conference, the closing speakers tried to find some agreement on dietary
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Macronutrients
Scientific Advisory Committee Nutrition (SACN) Declarations of Interest
At the BMJ/Swiss Re event today (14th June 2018), I was a panel member on one debate. We were asked
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High protein diets and heart failure
Many thanks to Dr Peter Brukner for today’s topic. There were a few to choose from last week, but Peter
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SACN report on saturated fat
Saturated fat is under the spotlight at the moment. Between February 28th and March 30th 2018, the US dietary guidelines
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Carbohydrates & Cardiovascular disease
The study this week didn’t make the headlines. I only came across it because I get email alerts when any
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Protein – by Kevin Handreck
Introduction I have an email folder for people I’ve met on line and it’s full of characters who have contacted
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LCHF & butter
I was interviewed for a couple of podcasts last week and the interviewers, the “Keto Dudes”, were particularly interested in
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Saturated fat
Here’s a slide that I present during some presentations e.g. here 10 mins in. It makes a few points: 1)
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Can a low carb diet kill you?!
We’re going back a few years for this week’s note – to 2013 – when a review was published entitled:
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Sugar vs Carbohydrate – what’s the difference?
The story for this week was inspired by a tweet by someone with whom I’ve written a couple of academic
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