Hyperlipid

I've been meaning to post about the gluten schizophrenia paper in Nutrition and Metabolism, prompted by the paper itself, a forward from...

While sniffing around BSE research in the aftermath of the Tau protein paper find I came upon this quite interesting review . A quick pubmed...

This report on the "spreadable" nature of Alzheimers within the brain is in New Scientist and came to me via Glyn Wainwright on t...

Quote of the century, from Bob Michell (taught me applied physiology many moons ago at the RVC and is a seriously bright guy). "Meta-an...

For UK readers who want to go the mainstream route here are the NICE guidelines as supplied by Ali in the comments after the Gluten and MS ...

These are a set of MRI images taken from a paper in Spanish entitled "Sustained clinical remission in a patient with remittent-recurre...

OK, I have to share this one . Take 517 sequential NSTEMI*(see edit) heart attack victims and measure their LDL cholesterol on admission to ...

Well, we're moving to Glasgow, the coolest, cloudiest and probably most UVB deprived city in the UK. But it does have some advantages. D...

I was looking for Mary Enig's "Know Your Fats" on the bookshelves a couple of days ago and came across my unopened copy of Edw...

I've just plotted the risk of being dead in the near future vs post admission glucose for coronary patients in this study . Haven't ...

These are the slides from the within-countries discussion on cholesterol and heart disease. I've allowed the sarcasm back in, which was ...

We were discussing weight and BMI at work and the secretary who has named me Tigger was pretty adamant that that I was at least 2kg too skin...

This paper came my way via Eddie Vos, through a discussion in the THINCS group. OK, what's going on in the paper? It's the metaboli...

It seems that the FSA is suggesting that eating enough fructose will make a maggot eat your heart out! Some sense at last. Oh no! They think...

OK, this is the graph of heart deaths plotted against fat intake, produced by Ancel Keys in 1953. It's a beautiful curve, utterly convin...

Hats off to Dr Briffa for this link . It's Willett of the weird PCOS diet again, but this one is useful. As far as I am aware sweetened...

Just realised I never posted this recipe, the peanuts are distinctly neolithic but the flavour is yummie. Occasionally... It's on the to...

Chris sent me a very interesting link a while ago and it just brought home to me how difficult it is to interpret a study in isolation. In ...

Here's another interesting anti fructose snippet. Slowly, slowly a tiny step at a time. The strange thing is that these people probably...

This video clip reminded me to put up the first few slides from the cholesterol skeptic presentation late last year. Squiggs is cooking scra...