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10 Reasons To Supplement With Glycine

March 8, 2021October 13, 2019 by Afifah Hamilton

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.

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Categories Nutrition Tags anti-oxidant, Article, collagen, diabetes, glycine, heart health, NAFLD, osteoporosis, popular, schizophrenia, sleep, type 2 diabetes

The Case for Sustainable Meat

June 4, 2019April 13, 2018 by Keir Watson

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.

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Categories Food & Environment Tags Article, carnivore diet, climate change, Environment, grass-fed meat, popular, rewilding, sustainability, sylvopastoralism

UK Vegetarians Don't Live Longer – VIDEO

June 5, 2019March 27, 2018 by Keir Watson

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.

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Categories Video Tags Article, colon cancer, EPIC, pescatarian, vegan, vegetarian

How vegetarians bad-mouth themselves!

June 5, 2019February 16, 2018 by Afifah Hamilton

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.

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Categories Nutrition Tags Article, Candida albicans, Candida Glabrata, Candida krusei, Candida tropicalis, drug resistance, hospital acquired infections, Thrush, vegetarian

Should folic acid be added to UK flour? The arguments for and against

June 7, 2019February 10, 2018 by Afifah Hamilton

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?

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Categories In the News Tags Article, folate, folic acid, fortification, mass medication, neural tube defects, personal liberties, pregnancy, state intervention

Dietary guidelines are a disaster: here's ten principles to fix them

January 20, 2018 by Keir Watson

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.

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Categories Nutrition Tags Article, dietary guidelines, fish, junk food, Mediterranean diet, Obesity, paleo diet, real food, risk vs benefit, traditional cooking

Mulled wine – packing a healthy punch

December 8, 2019December 19, 2017 by Afifah Hamilton

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.

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Categories Herbal medicine Tags Article, Christmas, Christmas food, mulled wine, polyphenols, spices

Carbohydrates, not animal fats, linked to heart disease across 42 European countries

October 26, 2019November 19, 2017 by Keir Watson

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?

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Categories Nutrition Tags Article, carnivore diet, CVD, diet-heart hypothesis, French paradox, popular, saturated fat

Health Hack #5: Kicking the potato habit

December 15, 2019November 8, 2017 by Afifah Hamilton

Read Time: < 1 min Trying to cut down your carbs, but can’t live without chips and mash? Here are three hacks that make life after potatoes worth living again.

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Categories Health Hacks Tags Article, Avocado egg, celeriac mash, glycaemic index, Health Hack, infographic, Low-Carb, potatoes

Cholesterol and CVD – How reliable are the risk calculators?

October 27, 2019October 22, 2017 by Keir Watson

Read Time: 7 min The SCORE (Systematic COronary Risk Evaluation) model for predicting CVD deaths can over-estimate risk by 500%.

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Categories Nutrition Tags absolute risk, Article, blood tests, cardiovascular disease, cholesterol, diet-heart hypothesis, relative risk, risk factors, statins

Cholesterol and CVD – putting the risks into perspective

October 27, 2019October 14, 2017 by Keir Watson

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 …

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Categories Nutrition Tags absolute risk, Article, blood tests, cardiovascular disease, cholesterol, diet-heart hypothesis, lipoprotein, oxidised LDL, relative risk, risk factors

September 2017 News Round-Up

September 30, 2017 by Afifah Hamilton

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).

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Categories In the News Tags alcohol, arginine, Article, circadian rythmns, Dr Kendrick, fish and depression, good fats bad fats, ketogenic diet, satiety, sleep health, zero carb diet
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