VIDEO: Harvard Scientist Supports U-Turn on Dietary Fats
Read Time: < 1 min It looks like 40 years of advice to limit fat consumption to less than 30% of calories has been quietly retired! A Harvard scientist explains why it’s a good move.
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Carbohydrates, not animal fats, linked to heart disease across 42 European countries
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?
August 2017 News Round-Up
Read Time: 4 min Low fat diet ‘could kill you’; NHS no longer uses post-it notes to arrange life-saving heart transplants – Yes, it’s silly season, but we find some gems among the dross.
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. 🙁
Low fat (but not full fat) dairy associated with increased risk of Parkinson's disease
Read Time: 4 min A new study gets me considering the role of diet and uric acid in Parkinson’s disease. Yet again full fat dairy comes out on top.
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
Vegetable oils losing their halo
Read Time: 5 min Just published: A US research group has recovered raw data from a large scale study from the 1970’s and finds no evidence for benefits from switching butter for vegetable oils.
“The sugar conspiracy” – recommended read
Read Time: 2 min A rollicking read about how for decades nutritional science ignored the dangers of sugar whilst needlessly demonising saturated fat.
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
August News Round-Up
Read Time: 6 min Gluten-free junk food on NHS; Jamie Oliver calls for sugar tax; Butter better than margarine; Fish oils for schizophrenia; Vit-D and MS
Autumn Seminar 2014 (post 2) – Dr Malcolm Kendrick video pt1 Ten Key Contradictions
Read Time: < 1 min Here, at last, is the video of Malcolm Kendrick’s first presentation: ten key contradictions that show why the cholesterol hypothesis is wrong. This talk was originally …
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Dr Malcolm Kendrick – Autumn Seminar – Tickets now available
Read Time: < 1 min . For our 2014 Autumn Seminar we are very pleased to present Dr Malcolm Kendrick, author, speaker and blogger, who will expose the myths and misunderstanding around cholesterol and …
Read moreDr Malcolm Kendrick – Autumn Seminar – Tickets now available