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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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FOOD AND FAKE NEWS There’s a bit of a myth doing the rounds that ours is an era of fake news. There’s nothing new about fake news. Certainly not when it comes to food and health. Most old wives’ tales were “fake news” back in the day. “An apple a day keeps the doctor away” …
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Carbs 101 As you can imagine, we have been asked many questions about carbs over the 12 years we have been publishing GI News. In Food for Thought it’s back to basics as we share our answers to some common FAQs: what are carbs, where do they come from, why are the good ones important, …
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GOING WITH THE GRAIN We have just written a book called The Good Carbs Cookbook to share our enthusiasm for the plant foods the natural world provides us with: fruits, vegetables, beans, peas, lentils, seeds, nuts and grains and to try and answer the many questions we have received over the years from our GI …
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