October News Round-Up
Read Time: 6 min Raw milk safe; Grass-fed beef best; Ethical seafood increases; Artificial light upsets genes; Mediterranean diet benefits; Cutting sugar improves health fast; Red meat & cancer
Mediterranean diet
November 2017 News Round-Up
Read Time: 4 min Juicy Diet News (Garlic, Mushrooms, Cheese, Broccoli, Oily fish…) & Chewy Medical News (Aluminium and autism, Screen-time and mental health, Baldness and heart disease, Big Sugar cancer cover up…)
December 2017 News Round-Up
Read Time: 5 min Here are 10 New Year’s Resolutions to help keep your diet on track in 2018. Plus a month of interesting articles from the mainstream and alternative media…
January 2018 News Round-Up
Read Time: 4 min Paleo for weight loss, eggs for mums to be. Breakthrough research seems to show the heart loves vitamin D. Broccoli-yogurt for cancer, it really is a thing. Sardine-bread sounds tasty but I can’t make the last line rhyme. 🙁
How can bitter foods be good for us when they taste so bad? – Resolving the paradox
Read Time: 13 min Keir Watson presents his carefully argued hypothesis based on evolutionary considerations of hunter-gatherer feast-famine cycles, that explains why bitter foods stimulate cellular functions essential for health.
Dietary guidelines are a disaster: here's ten principles to fix them
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.
April News Round-up
Read Time: 6 min Great British Beef Week; Ketogenic diet in diabetes; Low fat foods cause weight gain; Sat fat spat; The perfect cuppa; Health benefits of cheese
2017 January News Round-Up
Read Time: 6 min Had enough of experts? Judge their latest pontifications for yourself: chopping boards, statins, roast potatoes, high fat diets and metabolic syndrome, eggs and brain health.
Heart disease trials: Low-fat diet fails. Nuts and olive oil succeed.
Read Time: 6 min Two of the largest intervention trials ever undertaken demonstrate that nuts and olive oil beat low fat diets when it comes to heart disease prevention.
August News Round-Up
Read Time: 4 min We serve up a plate of top nutrition news, and finish with a knickerbocker-glory of articles from our guest publication: New Scientist magazine.
June news roundup
Read Time: 5 min Toxins in food linked to autism; emulsifiers & artificial sweeteners in obesity; Coffee good for liver; Butter off the hook; Dr Mosley sees the light; Gluten psychosis; Dangers of vitamin pills
January News Round-Up
Read Time: 6 min A host of new year diet stories – low fat v high fat; saturated fat v sugar; factors affecting the microbiome; nightshade foods