Saturated fat: Friends, foes & some fun!
Executive summary Please login to view this content Introduction We’re sticking with saturated fat for this week’s topic – even
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saturated fat
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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Time to rethink saturated fat?!
Executive summary Please login to view this content Introduction We had the absolute delight of hosting Dr Peter Brukner and
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The relationships between heart disease, cholesterol & dietary fat in Europe
In this post we are looking at some interesting findings from the latest European Cardiovascular Disease Statistics (2017). Let’s start
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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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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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The US Dietary Guidelines
On March 6th, a blog was posted on the Nutrition Coalition web site. The post was about an announcement on
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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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