Review of 2019
The following review of the year captures the 52 articles/topics that I have researched and written about during 2019: January
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Eating late & cardiac risk
Executive summary Please login to view this content Introduction I was in a waiting area on Tuesday 12th November 2019
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Dairy & disease – revisiting the evidence
Executive summary Please login to view this content Introduction In July 2019, the Monday note covered a paper written by
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“White meat as bad as red meat for cholesterol”
Introduction I spotted this week’s story on twitter. A couple of plant-diet advocates were tweeting that white meat is as
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The relationships between heart disease, cholesterol & dietary fat in Europe
In this post we are looking at some interesting findings from the latest European Cardiovascular Disease Statistics (2017). Let’s start
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Why cholesterol can’t cause heart disease
Introduction The more you examine the cholesterol-heart hypothesis, the more it doesn’t make sense. This week’s note has been inspired
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A new miracle diet pill?
We were still digesting ‘that (not) low-carb study’ when stories started to emerge from the European Society of Cardiology conference,
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Whole grains, CVD, cancer & mortality
A couple of supporters have emailed to ask if I would look at a particular article. The study is from
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Plant sterols lower cholesterol but increase risk of heart disease
In last week’s newsletter we noted that the original dietary fat trials did not support the introduction of the dietary
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