Hyperlipid

I think this one is too important to leave it where George Henderson posted it in comments: Of mice and men: Factors abrogating the antiob...

I have a feed to my email account which has worked out that I am interested in longevity studies and particularly the role of PUFA in the in...

Eric put various links in the comments to the first PSCK9 post leading, eventually, to this study: Sequence Variations in PCSK9, Low LDL, ...

This paper has absolutely nothing to do with obesity: Feeding into old age: long-term effects of dietary fatty acid supplementation on tis...

For a variety of reasons I'm rather ignoring the blog at the moment. But this is too good not to post, HT to Carlos Monteiro for the lin...

Tucker has been very, very busy over the last few weeks. Does Consumption of Omega-6 Seed Oils Worsen ARDS and COVID-19? You will ne...

"One-liner" post. This is exciting (picked up on twitter from Mike Eades): Effects of dietary carbohydrate content on circulatin...

I notice that the COVID-19 state of emergency has been lifted in the last remaining areas of Japan as of last Monday. I think they lost...

I thought I would just take a break from trying to simplify the Protons electron transport chain as regards ultra low fat diets and talk abo...

For your enjoyment I have simplified this graph from Hyperinsulinemia Drives Diet-Induced Obesity Independently of Brain Insulin Productio...

I guess everyone knows about this pre-print A plant-based, low-fat diet decreases ad libitum energy intake compared to an animal-based, ke...

Just a one liner-ish type post. I had the privilege of listening-in to one of the weekly Royal College of Pathologist webinars on the SARS...

TLDR: A "healthy", complex carbohydrate, low glycaemic index diet appears to markedly shorten the median lifespan of mice when com...

EDIT Please ignore any ref to sucrose as the Surwit type diet used here contained none. My apologies. END  EDIT. I've been spending some...

As a counterbalance to the papers documenting the obesogenic effect of PUFA containing diets I'd like to have a brief aside about the Su...

I picked this paper up from George Henderson via twitter Effects of dietary fat on gut microbiota and faecal metabolites, and their relati...

TLDR: PUFA in a mixed diet are obesogenic. PUFA under hypoinsulinaemic conditions are not. I doubt they get a free pass long term. There...

Just a brief mention of this one: Use of dietary linoleic acid for secondary prevention of coronary heart disease and death: evaluation of...

TLDR: Increasing insulin sensitivity makes you fat. This study is a bit of a mess because there are no control groups. People either got t...

Preamble: I've had this post written for some time (there are a fair few in this category) but this tweet from the World Health Organisa...