Health & Wellbeing

Red Meat and Heart Disease – is Carnitine the link?

10.04.2013 ARTICLES
red meat and heart disease - Conflicting Information

Red Meat and Heart Disease – same story, different face So, we’re now being told the saturated fat and cholesterol content of sirloin steak is not high enough to contribute to an increased cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. Instead, the link between red meat and heart disease is apparently due to a compound called carnitine that [...]

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5-a-day, Fructose and the Department of Health

13.09.2012 ARTICLES
Fructose

Guest Article by Martin MacDonald Fructose, commonly known as the ‘fruit sugar’, has been written about previously on this website. Fruit, fruit juice and therefore fructose was the topic of my first ever video blog for Mac-Nutrition (see below) and now I’m going to talk a little bit about the 5-a-day concept. However, in case [...]

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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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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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Research Update: Following the UK dietary guidelines increases risk factors for heart disease

04.03.2012 ARTICLES
Mac Plate

Guest Article by Martin MacDonald I’ve had this article written for a while and it originally started with this: “Well… wow. Can’t believe I’ve never seen this study! I’m gutted I can’t get the full text… if you can, please would you send it to me! Here is a link to the full text website: [...]

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Research Update: Treatment of Type 1 Diabetes and Epilepsy through lowering carbohydrates

14.02.2012 ARTICLES
Low CHO Pyramid

This is a very quick topical research update as in the last last few weeks a large number of people have asked about the best way to eat for Type 1 Diabetes (T1D). So when we saw this research published just a few days ago we had to stop what we were doing and write [...]

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Raw Milk – Unhomogenized and Unpasteurized

13.01.2012 ARTICLES
Raw Milk - Unpasteurized Unhomogenized

Guest article by Martin MacDonald (10/01/12) So, for about 6-12months now I have been on the trail of unpasteurized, unhomogenized milk, probably more commonly known as ‘Raw Milk’ but enthusiasts prefer the term ‘Fresh Milk’ as they insist you would not phrase it this way with other foods i.e. raw apple, raw banana etc. However, [...]

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Glycemic Index – ‘Simple’ & ‘Complex’ are meaningless

13.01.2012 Health & Wellbeing
glycemic index text

Created in 1980, the glycemic index (GI) is a measure of the ability of carbohydrate in a food to raise blood glucose levels. The ‘reference food’ to which all other foods are measured against is pure glucose. Some reference tables actually use white bread as the reference food which can cause considerable confusion as foods [...]

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