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BBC2 The Men Who Made Us Fat

27.08.2012 ARTICLES
The men who made us fat

The Men Who Made Us Fat ‘The Men Who Made Us Fat’ was such an amazing documentary and it has been uploaded to YouTube so we thought we’d just include a quick link for anyone who didn’t manage to see it. In particular, Parts 1 to 4 are the most informative of how the state [...]

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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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Research Update: Low carb diet improves glycemic control compared with advice to follow a low-fat diet

09.06.2012 ARTICLES
Low Fat

So, after my most recent post on Facebook that almost got the desired 70 likes over the long weekend, here is the study I mentioned. This is an interesting study as it looks at real world situations with "few resources allocated for achieving compliance, so that clinical use of the protocol would be realistic for [...]

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“Participants on the low-carb diet lost more weight and at a faster pace”

12.04.2012 ARTICLES
Weight Loss

A very quick blog as I know I haven't posted a whole lot recently. The title doesn't even do this justice… if you're reading this blog you're probably fairly happy with the fact that lowering your carbohydrates is a perfectly good way to lose weight. There is discussion, that is warranted, as to whether preferentially [...]

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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: Rethinking Dietary Cholesterol (Review)

04.03.2012 ARTICLES
plate

This blog couldn't be more simple. I've said it time and time again. No-one needs to limit their cholesterol intake, not even those who are susceptible to increases in LDL from high cholesterol intakes. What makes this post even more timely is that just 2 days ago I spoke with my younger sister (who has [...]

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Research Update: A low fat diet worsens cardiovascular risk factors in male and female runners

03.03.2012 ARTICLES
Heart health cardiovascular disease

Just a couple of interesting studies basically showing that eating a low fat diet (15-16%) worsens markers of cardiovascular disease risk. We hopefully all know that eating less than 15% fat is a bad idea, even the government doesn't recommend less than 15% but here is some evidence that perhaps even a 'health low fat [...]

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Research Update: How to make fat look bad

29.01.2012 ARTICLES
Bat fat

This is a topic that was covered at the Mac-Nutrition Conference 2011 and we’re wondering whether we might write an entire article series on this because quite frankly we’re 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 [...]

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