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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mortality
Cochrane saturated fat reviews
Executive summary * This week’s note examines the latest Cochrane report to be published on saturated fat and health outcomes
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The healthy low carb vs low fat study
Executive summary Please login to view this content Introduction Many thanks to Annemarie Hogenbirk, who is a registered clinical nutritionist
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Higher LDL-cholesterol & lower mortality
Executive summary Please login to view this content Introduction Many thanks to Dr Malcolm Kendrick for this week’s topic. Malcolm
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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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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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Whole grains, CVD, cancer & mortality
A couple of supporters have emailed to ask if I would look at a particular article. The study is from
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Statins for children
I was particularly horrified by headlines last week e.g. “Up to 56,000 children may get statins, say scientists” (Ref 1).
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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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Does coffee cut risk of disease?
I love coffee. I have a huge milky cappuccino, with a shot of caffeine, for breakfast and then I have
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