Progress since the last World Diabetes Day
Executive summary Please login to view this content Introduction World Diabetes Day is on 14th November each year. This year
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Low carb diets and mortality
Introduction This week we’re looking at a classic article, which was published in January 2013. It was called “Low-Carbohydrate Diets
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Does low carb mean low fiber?
The Lancet study, which was published on January 10th 2019, was presented as such a definitive nail in the coffin
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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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Review of 2018
A year ago, a review was published called “21st century science overload“. It reported that 2009 was the year when
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Diet for weight maintenance
On 16th November 2018, NY Times reporter Anahad O’Connor tweeted that the number one most emailed story on the NY
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Low, moderate or high carbohydrate?
In 1977 the Senator McGovern committee issued some dietary goals for Americans (Ref 1). The first goal was “Increase carbohydrate
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Gary Taubes in London
Gary Taubes (GT) has been in London, over the weekend of 17-18 March 2018, doing a marathon six hour presentation
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Low carb vs low fat
I received so many emails about one study over the past few days that there can only be one topic
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Diet for Type 2 Diabetes (DiRECT) (Part 2)
There has been much interest in the DiRECT diet – the low calorie intervention for putting type 2 diabetes (T2D)
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