The impact of a 10% limit on saturated fat
Executive summary This is a short note with a big finding. Introduction I know someone who was diagnosed with pre-diabetes
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polyunsaturated fat
Dietary Fat & Mortality
Executive summary Introduction We are getting back to home turf this week – diet and disease. More specifically dietary fat
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SACN (UK) final report on saturated fat
Executive summary * In June 2014, the UK Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN) was tasked with reviewing the role
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Saturated Fat Consultation (SACN) – My Response
At the recent Swiss Re/The BMJ Food for Thought conference, the closing speakers tried to find some agreement on dietary
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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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Replacing saturated with polyunsaturated fat
On 19th May 2017, another paper challenging current dietary fat guidelines was published. This one emanated from Deakin University, Australia,
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