Coffee makes you live longer?
I love coffee. I start the day with a huge, milky cappuccino – with caffeine – and then switch to
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mortality
Milk and Mortality
Thanks to one of my lovely supporters, Ulrike, for sending me the paper being reviewed for this week’s note. Almost
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Red meat: Human and planet health
There was a fresh three-pronged attack on red meat last week – this time in the BMJ. First, there was
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Now 10-a-day Supplemental
Further to this post, one of the most interesting findings of this recent study was that individual fruits and vegetables
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Now 10-a-day?!
It was 23rd February 2017 and I was over in Breckenridge when friends started to send me links to media
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“Mediterranean Diet could prevent 20,000 deaths… “
These were the headlines that we woke up to on Thursday 29th September 2016. More specifically, it was claimed that
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Eat lentils, not meat, to live longer
On 2 August 2016 global headlines reported “Eat More Plant Proteins To Live Longer, Study Suggests” and “Why a vegan
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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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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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Polypharmacy – time to cut drugs!
On May 13th (2015), an excellent initiative was launched with an article in the BMJ. The authors were: Dr Aseem
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