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Kekwick & Pawan: is a calorie a calorie?

May 22, 2017June 3, 2020 Zoë 4 Comments calories, kekwick, Obesity, pawan, the lancet

I was hoping that this week’s note would report breakthroughs from the European Congress on Obesity, which was held in

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Review of 2016

December 31, 2016August 6, 2018 Zoë 2 Comments biggest loser, blood glucose, blood pressure, BMI, calories, childhood obesity, Children, dietary guidelines, dieting, eatwell guide, exercise, familial hypercholesterolemia, food labels, heart disease, HPCSA, HRT & Breast cancer, Mediterranean diet, New Year Resolutions, Obesity, painkillers, PCSK9s, Professor Tim Noakes, Public Health Collaboration, red meat, SPRINT, statins, sugar, types of fat, UK diet, Vegan, vitamin D, weight loss, whole grains, World Milk Day

These are the topics that I’ve researched and blogged about this year: January New Year Resolutions – how to be the

Academic Research Calories Exercise Newsletter Obesity

‘Fitbits’ won’t make you slim, but nor will low-cal diets

September 26, 2016August 6, 2018 Zoë 2 Comments calories, dieting, exercise, weight watchers

A really interesting study was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association on September 20th 2016. It was

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Are we wrong to focus on sugar to try to tackle obesity?

July 18, 2016August 15, 2016 Zoë 1 Comment BMI, calories, carbohydrates, dietary fat, sugar

This week’s story didn’t make a big impact. I spotted it on a left hand side page (p22) in one

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The UK diet – then and now

February 22, 2016May 4, 2022 Zoë 0 Comments calories, Family Food Survey, meat, processed food, trends, what the UK eats

Last week’s papers were full of details about how the UK diet has changed over the years. The BBC covered

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Coca-cola, exercise & conflicts

August 24, 2015July 31, 2016 Zoë 29 Comments BNF, british nutrition foundation, calories, Coca-Cola, conflict of interest, exercise, fake food, Global Energy Balance Network, Obesity, SACN, Scientific Advisory Commitee on Nutrition

The last couple of weeks have seen Coca-Cola in the news quite a bit. Coca-Cola has been having a tough

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The real truth about calories

March 30, 2015August 18, 2016 Zoë 0 Comments 3500 formula, calorie formula, calories, carbohydrates, dietary fat, thermodynamics

There’s a BBC 1 series going on at the moment: The truth about… The first episode was about sugar; the

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Katie Hopkins: My Fat Story

January 5, 2015July 7, 2021 Zoë 27 Comments #myfatstory, calories, dieting, eat less do more, exercise, katie hopkins, my fat story, Obesity, reality TV, weight gain, weight loss

The starting aim and metrics “Katie Hopkins: My Fat story” was a programme aired in two parts on TLC on

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Alcohol and health

November 10, 2014August 18, 2016 Zoë 0 Comments Alcohol, calories, cancer, NHS, NICE

The issue of alcohol and calories proved to be of much interest to a number of recipients of this note.