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Protein in meat vs Beyond Burger
Executive summary * This week's note reviews a study that examined meat vs fake meat (Beyond Burger). * Other studies have looked at the nutritional profile of meat vs the plant substitute. This study...
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Vitamins, cocoa & cognitive function
Executive summary * This week's note looks at something rare in the field of nutrition – a randomised controlled trial (RCT). It was a large (2,262 people) and long (3 years) RCT. * The trial examined...
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Saturated fat – an end to the myth?
Executive summary * An article has been published, which aimed to investigate the robustness of the claim that saturated fat clogs arteries and causes heart disease. * I start this note with some...
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Carbs & cardiovascular disease
Executive Summary * This week's paper was based on the UK Biobank population study. It examined data for 110,000 people, who were studied for an average of 9.4 years. * It looked for associations...
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LCHF vs HCLF for athletic performance
Executive Summary * This week's study involved some professors known to many people in the low-carb world: Noakes, Volek and Agostino. * The study was a randomised controlled trial involving 10 men,...
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Saturated fat & Parkinson’s Disease
Executive Summary * A Swedish population study reviewed the association between dietary fat intake and the incidence of Parkinson's Disease (PD) in 41,597 people over an average of 17.6 years. * The...
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The Basics of Nutrition – Macronutrients
Introduction 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...
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The Basics of Nutrition – Vitamins
Introduction Micronutrients are, as the name suggests, those needed by the body in smaller quantities. (Macro meaning large and micro meaning small). Vitamins and minerals fall into this category. (We...
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The Basics of Nutrition – Minerals
Introduction This is the final part of the three-part note on the basics of nutrition. This week, we’re looking at minerals within the category of micronutrients. Micronutrients are, as the name...
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Protein & Cirrhosis of the liver
Executive summary * This week's paper is our first from Iran. It shouldn’t have got through peer review, but it provided some interesting learnings. * It was a population study involving just 121...
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