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 ...

* 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 ...

David Katz is the founder of The True Health Initiative. Two other authors, Joel Kahn and Walter Willett, are members of the council of the organisation. I personally agree with the vision and mission ...

* 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 ...

* As late as March 11th, 2020, the UK government and medical officers issued practical and minimally disruptive advice to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus. * On March 16th, the now infamous ...

* 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 ...

(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 ...

* 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 ...

The more you examine the cholesterol-heart hypothesis, the more it doesn’t make sense. This week’s note has been inspired by three things that I read last week. The first was the Appendix to last week ...

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 is about fibre. A recently published paper assumed that there is an optimal fibre intake (25-30g daily) and it investigated how people can be encouraged to consume this. * The ...

* On March 5th, 2025, headlines in the mainstream media reported “NHS ‘should give all over-50s statins’” and “NHS should offer ‘polypill’ to cut heart disease, experts urge.” * The headlines came ...