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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Sugar
Sweeteners & cancer
Executive summary * This week’s paper is the latest output from the French NutriNet-Santé population study. This study started in
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Is saturated fat worse than sugar?
Executive Summary * A paper was published in Diabetes Care in May 2020 called “Intrahepatic fat and postprandial glycemia increase
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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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Sugar vs. fat conspiracy
I’m quite partial to a conspiracy theory and there were a couple emanating from America last week – one far
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Are we wrong to focus on sugar to try to tackle obesity?
This week’s story didn’t make a big impact. I spotted it on a left hand side page (p22) in one
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Two thirds of Brits on a diet most of the time
I have never smoked. I have never even put a cigarette between my lips; never wondered what it would be
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Sugar the evidence
Just as this page documents recent academic articles questioning current dietary advice, so this page documents recent academic articles about
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Sugar in fruit
Five a day is not an evidence based nutrition message. In this post I ask the question – is it
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Sugar tax – what and why?
Last week’s news has been full of stories about a sugar tax. A report from Public Health England (PHE) was
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