meta-analysis – Zoë Harcombe

Introduction Many thanks to Mike for suggesting this note. Mike wanted to understand more about the types of studies that

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

A study in the Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology journal made global headlines on Friday 5th October. The Huffington Post announced:”Vitamin

The BBC headline was ”Low-carb diets could shorten life, study suggests” (Ref 1). In the US, CNN went with “Low

We’re going back a few years for this week’s note – to 2013 – when a review was published entitled:

Three! journal articles were published on whole grains in the past couple of weeks; not sure how that happened. Zong et

Introduction Dietary guidelines were introduced in the US in 1977 (ref 1) and in the UK in 1983 (ref 2).