The Case for Sustainable Meat
Read Time: 10 minutes 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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UK Vegetarians Don't Live Longer – VIDEO
Read Time: 1 minute 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.
How vegetarians bad-mouth themselves!
Read Time: 3 minutes 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.
Should folic acid be added to UK flour? The arguments for and against
Read Time: 6 minutes 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?
Dietary guidelines are a disaster: here's ten principles to fix them
Read Time: 14 minutes 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.
Mulled wine – packing a healthy punch
Read Time: 8 minutes This traditional winter warmer contains many polyphenol-rich ingredients with health promoting credentials. We look into the research around this festive herbal brew.
Carbohydrates, not animal fats, linked to heart disease across 42 European countries
Read Time: 7 minutes Lower cardiovascular disease and mortality among countries that consumed more fats and animal protein. Another nail in the coffin for the diet-heart hypothesis?
Cholesterol and CVD – How reliable are the risk calculators?
Read Time: 8 minutes The SCORE (Systematic COronary Risk Evaluation) model for predicting CVD deaths can over-estimate risk by 500%.
Cholesterol and CVD – putting the risks into perspective
Read Time: 11 minutes “Heart disease risk”, “raised cholesterol”, “Statins” – these six words are guaranteed to strike fear into almost anyone who has been unfortunate enough to be cursed …
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