The Myth of the Cholesterol-Heart Hypothesis

Posted by Guy Edwards in Nutrition & Lifestyle on 18. Apr, 2010 | No Comments

“Cut the feet to fit the shoes”

Heart and circulatory disease is the UK’s biggest killer. In 2002, cardiovascular disease (CVD) caused 39% of deaths in the UK.
Eat a low fat diet and you will reduce your risk of heart disease, so convention tells us. Could one of the most popular assumptions about the correct [...]

New Study, Statins Cause Diabetes

Posted by Guy Edwards in Nutrition & Lifestyle on 13. Apr, 2010 | No Comments

Here is a link to a great article by Justin Smith, author of the $29 billion reasons to lie about cholesterol.
It shows new research published in the medical journal the Lancet, relating to how new statin drugs can increase the risk of diabetes.
http://www.29billion.com/journal/tag/diabetes
Pass this on to anyone you know who has been prescribed or [...]

What If Some Types of Saturated Fat is Actually Good For Us!

Posted by Guy Edwards in Nutrition & Lifestyle on 18. Feb, 2010 | No Comments

For decades, we have been told that saturated fat clogs arteries and causes heart disease. But there’s just one problem: No one’s ever proved it!
Suppose you were forced to live on a diet of red meat and whole milk. A diet that, all told, was at least 60 percent fat — about half of it saturated. [...]

Is Saturated Fat Really Bad?

Posted by Guy Edwards in Nutrition & Lifestyle on 23. Jan, 2010 | No Comments

A really important aspect of good Health & Fitness blogging, in my opinion is to right what I see as ‘nutritional wrongs’, and there are many of them out there! So, if there’s a common perception that artificial sweeteners are better than sugar for weight loss, but there’s really no evidence for that, then I’m [...]