The rest of this note will summarise the six key papers published (in the Lancet) by the CTT group, what the primary ...

* This week's note looks at a classic statin/heart-disease study from 1994 – the Scandinavian Simvastatin Survival Study ...

Please note that the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) all-foods database is not precise and some numbers don’t add up exactly. It is a good guide rather than a precision tool.

(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 ...

* Last week's note reviewed a Korean population study, which led to headlines such as "Taking statins could slash dementia risk." The claims were not robust. * This week's note reports findings from a ...

Many thanks to Ellen Calteau Registered Dietician for this week’s note. Ellen is the Food Addiction Resources Operation Manager for the PHC charity. She spotted a pre-print paper announcing a protocol ...

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* 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 ...

* Most papers presenting the benefits of statins have been done by the Oxford Cholesterol Treatment Trialists (CTT) team. They tend to present benefits of statins in relative risk terms – with claims ...

* The UK Biobank population data were used for a study to see if a so-called Mediterranean diet is associated with lower dementia risk. * The paper acknowledged that research on this topic to date is ...