The Rice Diet
Executive summary * This week’s note was inspired by a newsletter about a presentation (by Denise Minger) about a diet
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carbohydrates
The Basics of Nutrition – Macronutrients
Introduction Food (noun): “Substance taken into body to maintain life and growth; nutriment” (Ref 1). In a world where food
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Carbs & cardiovascular disease
Executive Summary * This week’s paper was based on the UK Biobank population study. It examined data for 110,000 people,
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Australian women – carbs & fat
Executive summary * A study of approximately 10,000 middle-aged Australian women examined the association between carbohydrate and saturated fat intake
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The Carbohydrate Insulin Model of Obesity
Executive summary * A perspective paper has just been published on the subject of the carbohydrate insulin model (CIM) of
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‘Fast’ & ‘slow’ carbs
Executive summary * A study has just been published, which claimed to have definitively demonstrated that ‘fast’ carbs do not
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Essay on The Obesity Epidemic
Introduction Back in 2019, I was invited to contribute an article to an academic book on obesity, which was to
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Carb loading before surgery
Executive summary Please login to view this content Introduction Last week, I received a really interesting email from a long-term
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The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Type 2 Diabetes
Today’s note was planned to be last Monday’s note, but the spiteful attack from the Mail on Sunday needed addressing
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Slimming World’s view of low carb diets
The UK Sun newspaper seems to have been the first to pick up this story: “‘CARBFUSION’ Low-carb diets are ‘damaging
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