Towards better dietary guidelines
Executive summary * A special issue of Nutrients has just been published entitled "Towards Better Dietary Guidelines: New Approaches Based
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Public Health
The Zoe app, Covid-19 & supplements
Executive summary * The Zoe app, as it has become known, was developed by Professor Tim Spector (Kings College London)
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The National Food Strategy: The Plan
Executive summary * The National Food Strategy – a complete review of England’s food system from farm to fork –
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Rebutting the cholesterol hypothesis
Executive summary * This note suggests a rapid rebuttal to the cholesterol hypothesis. * To get there, it goes through
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Plant-based diets & COVID-19
Executive Summary (I had a rapid response published on this). * A paper was published in BMJ Nutrition Prevention &
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SACN report on lowER carb diets for T2D
Executive Summary * In March 2020, SACN, the UK Scientific Advisory Committee for Nutrition, invited submissions for a consultation about
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A healthy vegetarian diet
Executive Summary * This note was inspired by a query from someone with type 1 diabetes who works with other
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Bariatric surgery 10 years on
Executive Summary * A study was published in March 2021, which explored, in depth, patients’ experiences of living with a
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Do we have a weight set point?
Executive Summary * This week’s note reviews a March 2021 report from a workshop, which set out to examine the
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Bad diets, heart disease & deaths
Executive Summary * A study was published on April 22nd, 2021 which reviewed the association between diet and cardiovascular disease
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