Can plants stop prostate cancer progressing?
Executive Summary * Recent headlines claimed that a diet rich in fruit, vegetables and nuts can HALVE odds of prostate
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Men’s Health
Prostate cancer – to screen or not to screen
Executive summary * A paper has just been published with updated results for the CAP trial. * The CAP trial
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Who lives to 100?
Executive summary * This week’s study is from Sweden. It aimed to see if any biomarkers (blood test measures) were
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LCHF vs HCLF for athletic performance
Executive Summary * This week’s study involved some professors known to many people in the low-carb world: Noakes, Volek and
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Low-carb diets, cortisol & testosterone
Executive summary * A systematic review (look at all evidence) and meta-analysis (pool it together to see the overall effect)
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Vasectomies: testing & clearance
Executive summary * A paper has just been published in BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health about different testing strategies post
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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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Why do studies conclude that fiber is associated with better health?
Introduction On January 10th 2019, The Lancet published yet another article raving about carbohydrates and fiber (Ref 1). The lead
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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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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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