July 2012

Dietary Guidelines for Salt Intake and Blood Pressure

25.07.2012 ARTICLES
Success Baby - Salt Funny

Guest Article by Martin MacDonald Despite my fairly strong views that the current recommendations regarding salt intake and blood pressure are premature, I don’t think I’ve ever actually written a research update on a paper looking at salt. One thing that has held me back from writing about salt is that it is a huge [...]

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Almond Flour and Coconut Flour

19.07.2012 ARTICLES
Coconut

Lately, we’ve been having a play with almond butter and flour as well as coconut flour and oil, with various other ingredients, to make some really tasty and nutritious deserts, snacks and treats. Its lead to a whole lot of research on the best places to buy them as they’re not cheap! So far we’ve [...]

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Vitamin D Research

15.07.2012 ARTICLES
Sunshine Vitamin D

Vitamin D Deficiency, Supplementation and a Case Report Vit D has been a hot topic over the last couple of years and is somewhat of a buzzword in the world of nutrition and health at the minute; the first time we wrote something on Vitamin D was in 2009 on Mac-Nutrition 1.0 about Vitamin D [...]

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Sports Drinks, Skill Maintenance and Cricket Performance

02.07.2012 ARTICLES
sports drinks

by Matthew Lees, BA The topic of sugar consumption is a key aspect of the Mac-Nutrition philosophy, and there is a wealth of information available within this website supporting a lower carb, ‘real food’ approach to nutrition. For sedentary populations in particular, this should be regarded as the de facto attitude in terms of diet [...]

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Research Update: Low carbohydrate-high protein diets are associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease

02.07.2012 ARTICLES
Heart health cardiovascular disease

Guest Article by Martin MacDonald Are you scared after reading that blog title? Are you worried that I’ve suddenly realised that the EatWell Plate is in fact great? Fear not, nothing has changed its just another crappy study getting infinitely more media attention than it deserves. If you’ve not heard about it yet there was [...]

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Nutrition Myth Busting Videos

02.07.2012 ARTICLES
Myth Busting Videos

Videos by Martin MacDonald Over the last few months, Total Greek Yoghurt have been releasing a series of nutrition and diet myth busting videos that we filmed back in January 2012. I got to pick the topics and interestingly a lot of what I am talking about has come up in the recent BBC Documentay [...]

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