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

This week we have a corker of a chat and a disappointment. The corker of a chat was with Dr Ken Berry. The disappointment was that the podcast platform we use, Riverside, had an outage on Tuesday 26th ...

* Last week we looked at the origins of beliefs about cholesterol and heart disease. This week we look at the origins of beliefs about dietary fat and heart disease. * American soldiers were the ...

* This note examines two research questions with original references of the time: i) How was any connection between cholesterol and heart disease first made? ii) Does eating cholesterol raise blood ...

Please note that the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) all-foods database is not precise and some numbers don’t add up exactly. It is a good guide rather than a precision tool.