
from the archive 23/09/10 Today I answered a question on the topic of Amenorrhea in endurance athletes. This is obviously a huge issue with body fat coming down more and more in female athletes all the time! One comment in the question took caught my attention which was ‘my diet is very carb-heavy but I’m [...]
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Amenorrhea,
Athletes,
Endurance,
Fat,
Fat Loss,
Female,
HEALTH & WELLBEING
February 23, 2012
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Recently it seems that every other conversation or email I get relates to some form of nutrition horror story. So I thought I would start to document them in the hope that someone, somewhere who is giving this advice will wake up to it! Or that someone will read this post and be [...]
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Dietetics,
HEALTH & WELLBEING,
Misinformation,
Questions
February 14, 2012
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This is a very quick topical blog post. Several people in the last few weeks have asked me about what the best way to eat for Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) is in the last few weeks so when I saw this research published just a few days ago I thought I'd write a very [...]
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Carbohydrate,
Diabetes,
Ketogenic Diet,
Low Carbohdrate,
Research Update
February 6, 2012
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Just a heads u that I will be speaking on Super Human Radio on Monday 6th February at 5pm GMT. You can listen live by using this link http://tinyurl.com/y5ovsyl or by going to http://shoutcast.com and then searching for the Super Human Channel. Rebroadcasts can be heard in the Archive section of http://www.superhumanradio.com on demand [...]
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ADA,
American Dietetic Association,
Bodybuilding,
Mac-Nutrition,
Misinformation,
Saturated Fat
February 1, 2012
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by Phil Jones Martin MacDonald, the man behind nutritional consultancy business Mac-Nutrition, is slowly but surely opening people’s eyes and changing their perspectives on nutrition. Some of his views, such as reduced fat products being bad for people’s health and red meat not being linked to heart disease, contradict beliefs held by not only the [...]
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Mac-Nutrition,
Mac-Nutrition Conference,
Misinformation
January 29, 2012
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This is a topic I covered at my conference and I'm wondering whether I might write an entire article series on this because quite frankly I'm not sure whether researchers are doing it on purpose or whether studies like this are actually written by PhD students with a lack of common sense and a [...]
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Carbohydrate,
Fat,
Misinformation,
Protein,
Research Update
January 26, 2012
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I came across this fantastic letter, written by a UK based GP, on the use of statins. It is great to know there are these kinds of people in the UK system. A lot of what I read is US based information with MDs in America looking at things critically and going against the [...]
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Cholesterol,
Statins
January 26, 2012
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A study published just 4 days ago has come out and has shown some interesting results… perhaps ground breaking if you still believe the food pyramid/eat well plate is anything to go by, but interesting to the rest of us none the less. I have been fortunate enough to get a provisional PDF which [...]
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Carbohydrate,
Fat,
Protein,
Research Update,
Weight Loss