Statins in the over 75s
Executive Summary * Headlines in July 2020 reported that “A study of over-75s found that those taking statins were 25
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Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2020
Executive Summary * The Scientific Report for the 2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans has just been published. This is the
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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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Animal vs plant protein
Executive Summary Please login to view this content Introduction Monday notes can come from the simplest of seeds. This one
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What is a healthy food?
Executive Summary * This week’s note was inspired by the second Swiss Re/BMJ “Food for thought” conference and by an
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COVID-19 – deaths & excess deaths
Executive Summary * This week’s note looks at deaths during spring 2020 for Australia, the US, and the UK. It
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The risk of CVD over the next 10 years
Executive Summary Please login to view this content Introduction While the world continues to focus on one disease, it is
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Making value judgments about life and death
Introduction Apologies to those of you who have never watched “24”, but there are some cracking Jack Bauer jokes. My
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Social distancing – the evidence
Executive summary * For the purposes of this note, social distancing means the instructions we are being given to stay
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Cochrane saturated fat reviews
Executive summary * This week’s note examines the latest Cochrane report to be published on saturated fat and health outcomes
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