* The Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGAs) 2025-2030 – the tenth edition – were published on January 7th, 2026. The first ...

We’re kicking off with a review of last year. We covered fewer epidemiology papers in 2025 – as set out in the 700th note (Ref 1). There are only so many times you can say association not causation, ...

Happy New Year! We’re kicking off with a review of last year. We covered fewer epidemiology papers in 2025 – ...

An excellent presentation was posted on Youtube on 12 February 2017 (try this if the first link doesn’t work). Just 22 minutes long, it is well worth a watch. The speaker, Professor Salim Yusuf, is a ...

* This week's note looks at a classic statin/heart-disease study from 1994 – the Scandinavian Simvastatin Survival Study (abbreviated to 4S). * Simvastatin was made by Merck & Co. Merck funded, ...

(Jump to the Executive Summary at the end if you don’t want the full monty). This is a review of a book written by James & Hannah Yoseph entitled How statin drugs really lower cholesterol: and kill ...

The UK Sun newspaper seems to have been the first to pick up this story: “‘CARBFUSION’ Low-carb diets are ‘damaging the nation’s health’ say Slimming World experts” (Ref 1). It was soon covered by ...

* PCSK9s are relatively recent additions to the array of cholesterol lowering drugs. They are delivered by injection – fortnightly or monthly. One PCSK9 is called evolocumab. * A 2023 paper reported ...

* This week's note is about Dr Malcolm Kendrick's new book called The Clot Thickens. * Malcolm has been trying for 30 years to understand and explain what really causes heart disease. The diet heart ...

* This note summarises what carbohydrates are, from fructose to fibre. * It briefly looks at the role carbohydrates have played historically – feeding and growing the population and freeing people up ...

Executive summary * The official positions from the World Health Organisation (WHO), the US Centres for Disease Control (CDC), the US Surgeon General and the UK Deputy Chief Medical officer are ...

* Continuing our mini-series on seed oils, this note summarises the randomised controlled trial (RCT) evidence for studies that reduced and/or modified fat intake. Fat intake modification aimed to ...