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SWEET TALK Hi Alan. I’ve still got a bee in my bonnet about oranges only getting 4½ stars when you ran them through the Australian Health Star Rating system for May GI News despite their being packed with good stuff like vitamin C, fibre, potassium, folate and over 170 different types of phytochemicals that have …
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WHY IS PUSS PORTLY? As our waistlines have expanded, so have those of our pets. The Association for Pet Obesity Prevention’s ninth annual clinical survey (2016) reports that nearly 54 percent of dogs and 59 percent of cats were clinically overweight or obese in the US. To put some numbers on that, they reckon that …
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HORSE SENSE FOR WEIGHT LOSS David L. Katz, MD, discusses the implications of the JAMA study that compared low-fat and low-carbohydrate diets for weight loss and health improvement and also profiled the genes of the participants to determine if the genetic patterns thought to predict success on a given diet actually did so. The following …
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ANYTHING TO DECLARE? Conflict of interest is about much more than money says Dr Arya Sharma. In a blog post in Obesity Notes (a shortened version reprinted here with permission) he highlights the conflicts and potential biases nutrition researchers should not hesitate to acknowledge and disclose that John Ionnadis and John Trepanowski raise in JAMA. …
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DOGS AND HEART HEALTH Dog owners know how much warmth and comfort their canine companions add to their lives. A growing body of research shows they can do more than that. The Harvard Medical School Health Report, Get Healthy, Get a Dog, discusses how having a dog can prompt you to be more active, help …
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DITCH THE DIET – IT IS ONLY MAKING YOU FATTER Dr Nick Fuller, Research Director at Charles Perkins Centre, The University of Sydney, recently published Interval Weight Loss: How to Trick Your Body into Losing Weight One Month at a Time (Ebury Press). The goal is to lose a small amount of weight and then …
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EYE PROTECTION Back in July GI News we focused on our eyes because protecting our eyesight is one of the most important things we can do for the quality and enjoyment of life. Evidence to date says the ayes have it for a good diet with plenty of veg (good carbs and leafy greens) rich …
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THE AMAZING STORY OF BIG CHICKEN How did chicken take over the world’s diet? Industrial farming is a big part of it. But secret sauce is 63,000 tons of antibiotics every year. This insight comes from Maryn McKenna in her new book – Big Chicken. Before those innovations, hens were just leftovers from egg production …
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DON’T CONFUSE CORRELATION WITH CAUSATION In an entertaining and informative piece in The Conversation, Jon Borwein and Michael Rose look at the dangers of making a link between unrelated results. “Here’s an historical tidbit you may not be aware of,” they write. “Between the years 1860 and 1940, as the number of Methodist ministers living …
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ALTERNATE DAY FASTING IS NO BETTER THAN ANY OTHER FAD DIET In his Obesity Notes blog, Dr Arya Sharma recently reviewed a year-long randomised controlled study by John Trepanowski and colleagues that showed alternate day fasting is evidently no better in producing superior adherence, weight loss, weight maintenance, or cardio-protection compared to good old daily …
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