* I analysed the nutrition content of the diet. Even using the maximum intake of animal foods allowed, the diet was severely ...

Executive summary * “The EAT Lancet diet” was published in January 2019. The diet (with ranges) was specified to the ...

Introduction This week we have a corker of a chat and a disappointment. The corker of a chat was with ...

* This week's note was inspired by a newsletter about a presentation (by Denise Minger) about a diet used decades ago for the treatment of obesity and other health conditions. * The diet was called ...

An excellent presentation was posted on Youtube on 12 February 2017 (try this if the first link doesn’t work). Just 22 minutes long, it is well worth a watch. The speaker, Professor Salim Yusuf, is a ...

Food (noun): “Substance taken into body to maintain life and growth; nutriment” (Ref 1). In a world where food has become huge business ... an emotional crutch ... one of the greatest pleasures in ...

At the recent Swiss Re/The BMJ Food for Thought conference, the closing speakers tried to find some agreement on dietary fat guidelines. You can listen to the exchange between Professor Dariush ...

* A recent obesity Congress generated headlines about the 'weight loss jab' cutting heart disease. Two papers were referenced in a press release from the Congress – one has been published. * The ...

* As late as March 11th, 2020, the UK government and medical officers issued practical and minimally disruptive advice to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus. * On March 16th, the now infamous ...

Update: many of the original links appear to have been broken, so try this for the BMJ investigation reports and then click through to the full list of documents here. The CTSU is the Oxford Clinical ...

* This week’s study made media headlines worldwide and generated much interest on Twitter. * It claimed that having examined data from 216,695 people, red meat intake (total, processed and unprocessed ...