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.
Read Time: 10 min Meat, we are told, is bad for the planet. But is it that simple? Keir argues that the anti-meat rhetoric risks destroying the very environment is claims to be protecting.
Read Time: < 1 min A video of one of our most popular posts, in which Oxford University researchers find that UK vegetarians and vegans have the same all-cause mortality as meat eaters.
Read Time: 3 min A study into the prevalence of oral species of Candida yeasts discovered that vegetarian diets encourage the growth of some pretty ugly critters with health consequences far beyond thrush.
Read Time: 6 min Recent media stories call for fortification of UK flour with folic acid to prevent birth defects, but is mandated mass medication of the whole population a price worth paying?
Read Time: 14 min Nutritional research is increasingly challenging Government Guidelines on what constitutes a healthy diet. We present 10 important evidence based principles that get to the heart of the problem.
Read Time: 8 min This traditional winter warmer contains many polyphenol-rich ingredients with health promoting credentials. We look into the research around this festive herbal brew.
Read Time: 6 min Lower cardiovascular disease and mortality among countries that consumed more fats and animal protein. Another nail in the coffin for the diet-heart hypothesis?
Read Time: 7 min The SCORE (Systematic COronary Risk Evaluation) model for predicting CVD deaths can over-estimate risk by 500%.
Read Time: 11 min These six words — “Heart disease risk”, “raised cholesterol”, “Statins” — are guaranteed to strike fear into almost anyone who has been unfortunate enough to be …
Read moreCholesterol and CVD – putting the risks into perspective
Read Time: 4 min A neat balancing act of wit and wisdom from this month’s news outlets: alcohol and diet; good fats bad fats; low carb and zero carb; and Mayo Clinic scientists can’t see what’s in front of their face (s).
