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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meta-analysis
Vitamin D supplements
A study in the Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology journal made global headlines on Friday 5th October. The Huffington Post announced:”Vitamin
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Low carb diets could shorten life (really?!)
The BBC headline was ”Low-carb diets could shorten life, study suggests” (Ref 1). In the US, CNN went with “Low
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Can a low carb diet kill you?!
We’re going back a few years for this week’s note – to 2013 – when a review was published entitled:
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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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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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