US dietitians & their monopoly on dietary advice
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Research
Public Health Collaboration Conference 2019
The fourth Public Health Collaboration Conference was held over the weekend of the 11th-12th May 2019. The first was a
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Keys, cholesterol and rabbits
The following quotation, attributed to Ancel Keys, has been repeated quite often, but with the source for it not always
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Low Carb Denver 2019
Low Carb Denver started as Low Carb Vail in 2016. It was then Low Carb Breckenridge in 2017 and 2018
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Letter to the Lancet re. EAT
On 17th January 2019, the EAT diet report was published in The Lancet (Ref 1). A couple of hours after
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Swiss Re & BMJ Nutrition Conference
Food for Thought: The Science and politics of nutrition “There is no miracle diet, but there is a miracle meeting
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Scientific Advisory Committee Nutrition (SACN) Declarations of Interest
At the BMJ/Swiss Re event today (14th June 2018), I was a panel member on one debate. We were asked
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The HPCSA vs. Professor Noakes: Tim wins again!
Between the 21st and the 23rd February 2018, an appeal hearing was held in Pretoria, South Africa. The appellant was
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PHC Conference 2018
Dr Peter Brukner, former team doctor for the Australian cricket team, and Dr Karim Khan, editor of the British Journal
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Britain needs to go on a diet says Public Health England
Back in October 2011, England announced a new obesity ‘strategy’. I blogged on it here. The three key proposals were:
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