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

* 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 ...

* Loma Linda University has studied Seventh Day Adventists (SDAs) over many decades. * A recent paper using data from the Adventists Health Study 2 (AHS-2) examined associations between vegetarian vs ...

* Last week's note reviewed a Korean population study, which led to headlines such as "Taking statins could slash dementia risk." The claims were not robust. * This week's note reports findings from a ...

* Another association study has been published by the Harvard factory of population papers. This one claimed that butter intake was associated with higher mortality, while consumption of plant-based ...

This week’s note features a podcast with Professor Norman Fenton. Norman is Professor Emeritus of Risk at Queen Mary University of London (retired as Full Professor December 2022) and a Director of ...

I was invited by The Nutrition Network to do a talk at their annual summer party. Members of the Nutrition Network are real food nutritionists and natural health practitioners and so I didn’t think ...

Benjamin Bikman earned his Ph.D. in Bioenergetics and was a postdoctoral fellow with the Duke-National University of Singapore in metabolic disorders. Currently, his professional focus as a scientist ...

* I read a book called “Burn: The misunderstood science of metabolism” by Dr Herman Pontzer. Pontzer had lived with and studied the Hadza – a modern hunter-gatherer people living in northern Tanzania.

This note goes through the basics of the case: who, when, what, defamation law, the defence put forward by the Defendants, the summary Judgment and what this case was and wasn’t about. I will quote ...