Review of 2023
Happy New Year! We’re kicking off with a review of last year. As many people think about diet at this
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Cholesterol
Modifiable risk factors
Executive summary * A global team of researchers set out to examine the associations between two outcomes and five risk
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Happy New Year! We’re kicking off with a review of last year. As many people think about diet at this
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The Lipid Energy Model
Executive summary * This week’s note builds on last week’s note about lean mass hyper-responders. This was the term developed
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Lean Mass Hyper-Responders
Executive summary * The term “Lean Mass Hyper-Responder” was developed by Dave Feldman in reference to those with the combination
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Eggs, cholesterol & mortality
Executive Summary * The paper being reviewed this week claimed that dietary cholesterol and egg intake are associated with higher
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Is HDL-cholesterol bad?
Executive summary * This week’s note reviews a paper, which found that very high HDL-cholesterol levels are associated with higher
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Cholesterol & Coffee
Executive summary * This week’s note looks at the association between coffee consumption and total cholesterol. * Coffee contains two
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A new look at statins, LDL-Cholesterol & CVD
Executive summary * Most papers presenting the benefits of statins have been done by the Oxford Cholesterol Treatment Trialists (CTT)
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These are the topics that I covered in 2021: January Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2020-2025. The Dietary Guidelines for Americans
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