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15/03/2019

Ivor Cummins, with the support of Irish Heart Disease Awareness, has posted three superb talks given to the UK Parliament session on proposals for better policy on the management of diabesity.

Here is the first -- by Dr Aseem Malhotra.

The talk by Tony Watson (MP) can be found here: https://youtu.be/rGMrgXbNSCA , and that of Dr Zoe Harcombe here: https://youtu.be/lQVsHtPUUQI .

I had the honour of attending the UK Parliament session last Tuesday, for a landmark address - on what will be required to address the diabetes epidemic and ...

11/03/2019

Would you like to lose weight without adopting any specific diet?

Here's how it can be done.

Weight loss can seem so difficult, but it doesn't have to be. Here are 15 sensible ideas on how to lose weight that anyone can follow. No crash diets are necessary!

11/03/2019

Why we should stop worrying about eating salt to taste.

Is salt bad for me, or you? This question has plagued doctors and patients since the 1970's, even though the answer is very clear. You won't believe the rese...

11/03/2019

A new study links changes in gut bacteria to dementia. The researchers hope that their findings might, one day, help develop more effective treatment.

11/03/2019

Holly molly look what I found in the huge volume from the Annals of Nutrition & Metabolism, 2015, that you can find here free to download (thanks Travis Statham): https://www.karger.com/article/pdf/381654
I am just past the intro and first article, first paragraph... Honestly? Do doctors read?

11/03/2019

Vitamin K2 is one of the less well-known micronutrients. But one that is very important for health.

Vitamin K2 is an essential nutrient for our health, but not many people know about it. This article examines 10 health benefits of vitamin K2.

05/03/2019

Dr Ken Berry once again bringing us back from the world the other side of the proverbial looking glass. So much of what we have been led to believe is just plain wrong.

Good kidney function is essential for good health. To protect your kidney function, you have to know what to eat and what to avoid. There is a lot of misinfo...

05/03/2019

Great advice from the Virta Health team.

Weight loss plateaus are often a normal, yet frustrating, part of the weight loss process. If you’re stuck in a true weight loss plateau while following a low carb or ketogenic nutritional approach, it might be due to one or more of the reasons outlined below.

11/02/2019

This remains one of the best checklists for problem-solving weight loss stalls.

Ketogenic diets do not guarantee weight loss. Here are ten possible reasons you're not losing weight on a ketogenic diet.

11/02/2019

Is anyone surprised?

Instead of protecting Americans' health, insiders at the CDC were dutifully helping Coke sell sugar water

08/02/2019

Eating too much protein should definitely not be a major concern for most people. Eating too little is far more likely to be an issue.

When reduced to quantitative terms, the "high protein" advocates and the "moderate protein" advocates are actually often giving exactly the same advice after you have done all of the calculating and converting between metric and Imperial units. And what they are recommending is generally more than what many people are actually eating.

The most practical recommendation about how much to eat probably comes from this great article from the Virta Health team: https://blog.virtahealth.com/how-much-protein-on-keto/

Protein is the most important macronutrient in our diet. This article examines nine science-backed health benefits of eating more protein.

08/02/2019

Dr Wahls' book is definitely compulsory reading for anyone with an autoimmune disease, especially if that disease is Multiple Sclerosis.

This short article gives a very good sense of who Terry Wahls is, and why she is worth listening to.

I did not see any of this coming. Not my recovery, not the change in my clinical practice, not the resistance from dietitians and medical…