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Interesting New York Times article today on a small study - also published today - in the medical journal Pediatrics: 'How a Low-Carb Diet Might Aid People with Type 1 Diabetes' "It found that children and adults with Type 1 diabetes who followed a very low-carb, high-protein diet for an...

The Patient's Choice Award is for members of the public to thank a nurse, midwife, health visitor, healthcare assistant or assistant practitioner who has made a real difference to their or a loved one's healthcare. The judges for this category are only responsible for deciding the five...

This article by Dr. Malhotra, Dr. Lustig and Maryanne Demasi is well worth a read: ‘The cholesterol and calorie hypotheses are both dead — it is time to focus on the real culprit: insulin resistance’...

Interesting article in today's Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/apr/12/ultra-processed-truth-10-bestselling-foods-cherry-bakewell-fray-bentos-pies I have to say I look at food so differently now that I am eating low carb. In the past, I would have eaten many of these foods...

This is an interesting article from the Stanford Social Innovation Review: 'The Emerging World of Online Health Communities' "Patient-led sites that offer support and information are the most well-known. They typically offer a moderated forum, blogs, advice, support, academic references, and a...

Food for Thought: The Science and Politics of Nutrition, Zurich 14-15 June, 2018 Presented by the BMJ and the Swiss Re Institute. While the event is by invitation only, a series of articles is planned: "To improve the science of nutritional advice, the BMJ (formerly the British Medical...

The following link is to an interesting article by Dr. David Ludwig - a well-known proponent of the LCHF approach - on the 'Carbohydrate-Insulin Model of Obesity' (CIM): https://medium.com/@davidludwigmd/genetic-study-supports-carbohydrate-insulin-model-of-obesity-327d84be6d2b The article...

From the Journal of Insulin Resistance: 'A low-carbohydrate survey: Evidence for sustainable metabolic syndrome reversal' "Conclusion: We conclude that low-carbohydrate diets are a sustainable method of metabolic syndrome reversal in a community setting."...

The link below is to a really interesting, well-researched article written by parents of a child with Type 1 diabetes. Both engineers, they brought their scientific, problem-solving orientated minds to the problem at hand, namely achieving as close to normal as possible HbA1c for their 11...

Crash diets can cause transient deterioration in heart function: Heart disease patients should seek medical advice before adopting a very low calorie diet: A team from Oxford looked at the cardiac effects of the Newcastle VLCD. The article also includes some interesting information on the...

Great interview with @FatEmperor by Marika Sboros in Foodmed.net: Here is a snippet: “Current nutrition leaders are a prime example globally. They are driven to protect their reputation after giving the wrong advice for 30 to 40 years. They have led people into diabetes, obesity, heart disease...

Effectiveness and Safety of a Novel Care Model for the Management of Type 2 Diabetes at 1 Year: An Open-Label, Non-Randomized, Controlled Study Here are 2 random snippets: “The purpose of this study was to evaluate if a new care model with very low dietary carbohydrate intake and continuous...

It is long but well worth the read. It is divided into sections so they can be read individually. Here is the link: http://skimmed.cream.org/

From the New England Journal of Medicine: An article on an upcoming ‘tightly controlled feeding study’. Here are 3 snippets from the article and the link to the full article: 'Interest in the Ketogenic Diet Grows for Weight Loss and Type 2 Diabetes' “A diet that lets a person eat fat to...

‘THE FIGHT AGAINST DIETARY MISINFORMATION CONTINUES… If we are to beat type 2 diabetes and sustain our NHS, the truth must be heard’ by Dr Aseem Malhotra “Less than a year later, The Sunday Times and Channel 4 Dispatches exposed that several members of SACN had received considerable research...

The link below is to another great Gary Taubes essay. Here are 2 snippets (I particularly like the 2 sentences which I have highlighted in bold below): “Whether this is the case with the current epidemics is an all-too-regrettable possibility: perhaps we’ve simply misconceived the reality of...

Here is a link to a nice presentation by Dr. Jeffry Gerber: 'Primary Causes of Heart Disease: Framingham and the Muddy Waters': https://denversdietdoctor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Primary-Causes-of-Heart-Disease-Framinghan-and-the-Muddy-Waters-Jeffry-Gerber-MD.pdf

‘The Sugar Conspiracy’ Wow, this 2016 ‘long read’ article by Ian Leslie in the Guardian is just brilliant! It covers just about everything – the influential names: John Yudkin, Ancel Keyes, Gary Taubes, Nina Teicholz, Robert Lustig, the 1980 dietary guidelines, the physiology of T2DM, and the...

A good read published today in the BMJ: What if sugar is worse than just empty calories? An essay by Gary Taubes Here is a snippet: 'With such influential authorities arguing that sugar was benign, it took on the aura of undisputed truth. Just as other physicians and nutritionists in the...

This journal article below, published in BMJ in 2016, is well worth a read. The authors had previously recovered and reviewed unpublished data from the Sydney Diet Heart Study. In this paper, they review recovered unpublished data from the Minnesota Coronary Experiment. A snippet from their...