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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Animal Based Low Carb vs Plant Based Low Fat Diets
Executive summary Please login to view this content Introduction There’s been quite a lot of chatter online about this week’s
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Dietary Fat & Mortality
Executive summary Please login to view this content Introduction We are getting back to home turf this week – diet
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Fat shaming or life saving
Introduction In February 2004, HTV Wales made a discussion programme about obesity. They hosted a dozen people with many different
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COVID-19 & Vitamin D
Executive summary Please login to view this content Introduction Just as papers are being published rapidly on COVID-19, so interest
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