Is olive oil a superfood?
Executive summary * This week’s note was inspired by a podcast I did where I described olive oil as “not
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Specific Foods
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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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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Diets, health & carbon footprint
Introduction I spotted this week’s paper on the Medical Xpress news website and a couple of people also emailed me
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Does Erythritol sweetener cause cardiac incidents?
Introduction I spoke at Low Carb Breckenridge in February 2017. There were a number of stalls around the conference hall,
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Does meat cause CVD & T2D?
Executive summary * An umbrella review was conducted with the aim of examining all evidence related to meat intake and
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Estimating the environmental impacts of 57,000 ‘foods’
Executive summary * This week’s paper is one of the worst I have reviewed. * It described a modelling exercise,
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Fibre – ask why, not how
Executive summary * This week’s note is about fibre. A recently published paper assumed that there is an optimal fibre
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Protein in meat vs Beyond Burger
Executive summary * This week’s note reviews a study that examined meat vs fake meat (Beyond Burger). * Other studies
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