What counts as a healthy body weight? Major study rewrites the rules
Read Time: 6 min A huge UK study involving 3 million people over 18 years finds the healthiest BMI is at odds with NHS advice about “healthy weight”.
Nutrition
Whilst there are many environmental and genetic factors that affect our health, our foods choices play, perhaps, the most significant modifiable role. Yet doctors have almost no nutritional training. Fortunately, the literature is full of important studies and discoveries that can help us all stay ahead of the curve.
Many of the following articles are highly referenced so you can check out the studies for your self if you are so moved. Start reading, and learn how to take charge of your health today.
Eggs – Not just for Easter
Read Time: 8 min Brits are eating more eggs following a half century of unfounded fears. Here’s the lowdown on these nutritional super-foods.
5 nutrients that might help your body fight off coronavirus
Read Time: 11 min We look at the research around key nutrients that have a proven role in defending against respiratory viruses and lung infections.
Why did it take so long to crack scurvy?
Read Time: 19 min Captain Cook impressed the Royal Society with his successful use of saurkraut to ward off scurvy Image: ‘Oatehite’ by Isaac Robert Cruickshank (1789-1856) Thoughts on a …
Seafood, Sex and Evolution (3 videos)
Read Time: 2 min Watch our recent public talk on the role of seafood in brain health, evolution and female sexiness. (Three videos)
UK vegetarians DON’T live longer than meat eaters study finds
Read Time: 6 min The Oxford EPIC study finds that vegans and meat eaters have similar all cause mortality. No evidence that red meat causes bowel cancer.
Amazing results challenge guidelines in new study
Read Time: 7 min American Heart Association: “Replace saturated fat with PUFA and MUFA”; Recent study: “No. This advice needs revising”
10 Reasons To Supplement With Glycine
Read Time: 25 min Glycine is one the simplest amino acid yet has some remarkable and unexpected functions within the body. Due to an evolutionary bottle-neck all we are chronically deficient in this essential nutrient.
2019 The Year Vegan Pseudo-Science goes Mainstream?
Read Time: 8 min • Veganuary Blues
• Meatless Burgers
• Eat-Lancet Report
•Vegan diets need supplements
8 Ways to boost your collagen and Slow Ageing
Read Time: 8 min A major factor in ageing is a decline in collagen. In this post we look at eight ways to increase collagen synthesis.
Improve Your Omega-6 to Omega-3 Balance
Read Time: 11 min Modern diets have an excess of omega 6 compared to omega 3 compared to our evolutionary norm, and appears to underpin many contemporary diseases. Here’s what you need to do to get yours back in the sweet spot.