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John Yudkin on Dietary Instinct, plus examples from experiments with Wistar...
Arguments for a Soda Tax are sometimes based on the specific metabolic effects of fructose, but for most people these effects are only slightly more stressful than the effects of glucose, and probably...
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Does reductive stress drive an adaptive inflammatory response, in depression...
Everyone knows (I hope, because if they do it will save me a lot of time explaining) that inflammation can cause depression by activating the enzymes that degrade tryptophan, thus depleting the brain...
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Does Aspirin Prevent Liver Cancer, and, Does Ginkgo Extract Cause It?
Aspirin (acetylsalicyclic acid) is one of those drugs that blurs the distinction between the natural world and the products of human ingenuity, being a barely-tweaked analogue of salicylic acid....
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Minimum Pricing of Discretionary Calories as a Potential Government...
As a general rule, I think it's safe to assume that cheap energy foods are driving the obesity epidemic.I'm talking about sugar in drinks and lollies, flour in pasta and noodles and bread (one only has...
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Magnus Pyke on energy intake, plus Jack Drummond and Wartime Rationing
Magnus Pyke was the protégé of Jack Drummond, the British nutritionist who largely directed food policy for Britain's war effort during the Second World War. Wiki states: On 1 February 1940, he was...
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A Request for Hep C Epidemiologists to Pay More Attention to Linoleic Acid...
Some time ago I came across this interesting paperBecause it seemed to beg the important question of linoleate intake, while addressing both fructose intake and insulin resistance, I took the (for me)...
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On Participating in a Phase III Trial of Sofosbuvir and GS-5816 for Hepatitis C
Late last year, after my usual visit to the Hepatology Department at Auckland Hospital (actually it has the encouraging name Liver Transplant Unit, but I choose to ignore that) I received a call asking...
View ArticleOn What I Eat These Days
"I forget most of what I have read, just as I do most of what I have eaten, but I know that both contribute no less to the conservation of my mind and my body on that account." - Georg Christop...
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AUT's Submission on Proposed "Changes" to New Zealand's Dietary Guidelines
For the last wee while I've been helping Prof Grant Schofield and his team write a response to the New Zealand dietary guidelines (low fat, high grain, no SFA). The paper is the PDF linked to in this...
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Saturated fat IS good for you, but how much polyunsaturated fat do you need?
Working on the "Real Food" AUT dietary guidelines submission it became clear that neither the epidemiology of the lipid hypothesis nor the RCT experiments testing it were designed to separate the...
View ArticleUffe Ravnskov, Zoe Harcombe and Aseem Malhotra on the New Censorship
This is just a bookmark for three responses to two recent incidents of press censorship. ABC withdrew the two episodes of "Heart of the Matter" Catalyst show, despite nothing substantial in the...
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Diabetes as an Iatrogenic Disease - the Indian Experience
Diabetes and dairy fat in India. The epidemics of diabetes, cardiovascular disease and related conditions in India have been called iatrogenic (Raheja B.S. 1994), a product of diets high in...
View ArticleDiabetes as an Iatrogenic Disease - the Second Hit
Why does dairy fat, and perhaps other similar fats like tallow and coconut, seem to prevent diabetes?A broken omega 6:3 ratio becomes more likely with higher PUFA intakes. There is something about...
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Another Reason why the Lipid Hypothesis is Bunk
The lipid hypothesis, as evry fule kno, predicts that eating saturated fat causes elevation of serum cholesterol or LDL which then plays a causal role in cardiovascular heart disease. How or why no-one...
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Epidemiology can be Interesting
Hat tip to Nigel Kilburn for pulling up two studies from Siri-Tarino et al.’s 2010 saturated fat meta-analysis that did show correlations with heart disease. These were also the studies with the...
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A Guest Post on Prof. Grant Schofield's Blog
This is just a short post to direct readers to my guest post here: http://profgrant.com/2014/07/30/all-that-fat-a-guide-for-the-perplexed/Which contains all my thoughts about dietary fat...
View ArticleThe Difficulty of Attributing Ends to Means - Selenium and Heart Disease
One of the arguments used by New Zealand's Public Health experts still opposed to LCHF and Paleo diets - opposed, that is to the idea of the more saturated animal fats being safe, either overall, or in...
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Amylin - the "root cause" of diabetes?
When this story broke, I had to look up amylin in my biochemistry (Mathews, Van Holde, Aherne 2000) and physiology (Best and Taylor, 1984) texbooks. Neither has amylin indexed. Nor do I remember any...
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Plasma phospholipid linoleic acid is a marker of health.
A nicely controversial new paper from the American Heart Association, in which linoleic acid in plasma phospholipids is the only PUFA with negative correlation with total mortality. The more LA n-6 in...
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Who put the Fox in charge of the Henhouse? Dirty Politics contaminates the...
Those of my readers from outside New Zealand might be interested in this local story. Especially you Australians.It starts here:Katherine Rich, a former National party MP, now the chief executive of...
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