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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mortality
“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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HRT & CVD: Cochrane Study
On Tuesday 10th March 2015 a Cochrane study was published entitled “Hormone therapy for preventing [HRT] cardiovascular disease in post-menopausal
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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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Five a day is enough? Enough of the myth anyway
No apologies for returning to the five a day topic. For as long as the powers-that-be keep extolling the virtues
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Heart disease – the facts
In all my life, I have personally known one person who has died from heart disease (a hereditary heart condition).
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