Is saturated fat worse than sugar?
Executive Summary * A paper was published in Diabetes Care in May 2020 called “Intrahepatic fat and postprandial glycemia increase
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Animal vs plant protein
Executive Summary Please login to view this content Introduction Monday notes can come from the simplest of seeds. This one
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What is a healthy food?
Executive Summary * This week’s note was inspired by the second Swiss Re/BMJ “Food for thought” conference and by an
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COVID-19 – deaths & excess deaths
Executive Summary * This week’s note looks at deaths during spring 2020 for Australia, the US, and the UK. It
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The risk of CVD over the next 10 years
Executive Summary Please login to view this content Introduction While the world continues to focus on one disease, it is
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Making value judgments about life and death
Introduction Apologies to those of you who have never watched “24”, but there are some cracking Jack Bauer jokes. My
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Animal Based Low Carb vs Plant Based Low Fat Diets
Executive summary Please login to view this content Introduction There’s been quite a lot of chatter online about this week’s
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Dietary Fat & Mortality
Executive summary Please login to view this content Introduction We are getting back to home turf this week – diet
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COVID-19 & Vitamin D
Executive summary Please login to view this content Introduction Just as papers are being published rapidly on COVID-19, so interest
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Coconut oil, olive oil, butter & LDL-cholesterol
Executive summary Please login to view this content Introduction One of my favourite parts of one of my favourite books
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