Heme iron
The big event in the real food world last week was a debate on the Joe Rogan experience between Chris
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coronary heart disease
Saturated Fat Consultation (SACN) – My Response
At the recent Swiss Re/The BMJ Food for Thought conference, the closing speakers tried to find some agreement on dietary
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SACN report on saturated fat
Saturated fat is under the spotlight at the moment. Between February 28th and March 30th 2018, the US dietary guidelines
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The natural sponsor for the real food movement
There are few companies with which the real food movement can partner. Meat and dairy organisations are obvious bed fellows,
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Soybean heart healthy claim
Many thanks to Sally Fallon Morell for this week’s topic. Sally sent me notification of a recent FDA (U.S. Food
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Replacing saturated with polyunsaturated fat
On 19th May 2017, another paper challenging current dietary fat guidelines was published. This one emanated from Deakin University, Australia,
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Will whole grains make you live longer?
Three! journal articles were published on whole grains in the past couple of weeks; not sure how that happened. Zong et
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Saturated fat & CHD in Europe
This post shows that, for all 192 countries in the world, for men and women, for CVD deaths and all-cause
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US and UK dietary advice on fats “should not have been introduced”
Introduction Dietary guidelines were introduced in the US in 1977 (ref 1) and in the UK in 1983 (ref 2).
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Heart disease – the facts
In all my life, I have personally known one person who has died from heart disease (a hereditary heart condition).
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