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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monounsaturated fat
SACN report on saturated fat
Saturated fat is under the spotlight at the moment. Between February 28th and March 30th 2018, the US dietary guidelines
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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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Saturated fat
Here’s a slide that I present during some presentations e.g. here 10 mins in. It makes a few points: 1)
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Soybean heart healthy claim
Many thanks to Sally Fallon Morell for this week’s topic. Sally sent me notification of a recent FDA (U.S. Food
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The PURE study
Did you ever think you’d wake up to the headline “Low-fat diets could increase the risk of an early death:
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Types of fat
There are three different types of natural fat. The chemical structure of fat is shown below with three examples of the
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If you think 10g of nuts will extend your life, you really are nuts!
On Thursday 11th June (2015), we woke up to the headline “Nuts protect against early death”. The headlines came from
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Saturated Fat has naff all to do with heart disease
That was almost the headline on Tuesday 18th March 2014. The Telegraph went with “No link found between saturated fat
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Why the Australian Heart Foundation won’t have evidence against saturated fat
I ended this blog suggesting that we all need to demand evidence for the nutritional nonsense that we hear on
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