Hyperlipid

It is remarkably widely accepted that fruit and vegetables are good for you. Three a day, five a day, nothing but fruit and vegetables all d...

Many moons ago I suffered alone as the sole voluntary victim of a major professional examination. My fellow co-sufferer was absent as he had...

If you go to Regina Wilshire's blog and have a look at this page you will get some idea of how a meme fights. She includes this link , ...

I've gotten side tracked. In the Fiaf post I suggested that our gut microbiota might be controlling both our metabolism and possibly our...

This study, available in full text for free, makes some very interesting reading . It compares the end results of two diets of identical mac...

The Fiaf paper and review I've been discussing both cover high quality basic research. This is the sort of thing which gives us serio...

There are a couple more posts kicking around from the Fiaf paper but as an interim here is a nice paper ref those cholesterol levels and an...

Our gut bacteria live in our gut. OK that's obvious, but if the system is in good working order they are almost all, several trillion of...

Bacteria have been around for a long time, much longer than the eukaryotes and MUCH longer than us Johnny-come-lately multicellular organism...

Eating food in general decreases your perception of pain. A high fat meal knocks spots off of a high carbohydrate meal. Both meals were 5.2...

It's a bit difficult not to post about the cholesterol hypothesis. I'm sheepish to admit that it is in a large part because it is su...

I started reading Dr Dandona's work with his paper on the generation of free radicals by various white blood cells under the influence ...

Human beings are adapted to live on fat. This is self evident from the way we store energy. Any average human is probably carrying around 10...

Another nice fruit and vegetable study, this time from the Netherlands. This is an intervention study, tightly controlled and available in ...

The other day I was chatting to a work colleague about a lab result showing hypercholesterolaemia. She'd ruled out any medical problems ...

I glibly described sugar as addictive in my last post. Is this true? Well, anyone who has read Mark Johnson's book Wasted will realise ...

THANK YOU Dr Bass, excellent timing. This paper is being discussed in various nutrition fora at the moment. It's a classic. You read th...

When it's a high carbohydrate diet! Preferably a high sucrose diet. The simple way to prove a high fat diet is bad for you is to use a r...

Nottingham and Sheffield are about 30 miles apart. If you have neurological problems presenting as ataxia and live in Mansfield you can eith...

These two papers caught my eye. The first is observational and uses very limited in data points but clearly suggests the hypothesis that su...