Health & Fitness – Diet & Health Today

Introduction I spotted two articles about weight gain during lockdown and it prompted me to do a systematic search for

A new look at statins, LDL-Cholesterol & CVD

Summary * Most papers presenting the benefits of statins have been done by the Oxford Cholesterol Treatment Trialists (CTT) team.

Background Thank you for the feedback on last week’s note about avocados and cardiovascular disease (CVD). I sometimes think –

Introduction An article has just been published by Whittaker et al called “Low-carbohydrate diets and men’s cortisol and testosterone: Systematic

Summary – One of the most important challenges in the field of nutrition has been published in The Lancet. It

Summary – A 456 page Cochrane review has been published. It examined low-carbohydrate diets vs balanced-carbohydrate diets for reducing weight