Current Posts – 08 Jan 2016

The long running battle high fat vs a low fat diet is hotting up. A new study has just found that low carbs can reverse the killer condition fatty liver disease, yet dietitians who recommend eating in this way face being run out of their profession, charged with using bogus science. Is this the way evidence-based medicine should be practiced or are dietitians clinging to a theory of healthy eating that needs drastic revision?

Clever marketing made a major contribution to statins becoming the best-selling type of drug in the world. Many of those techniques are now seen to have benefited profits rather than patients. But this has proved no bar to doing exactly the same things to increase sales of the next generation of cholesterol lowering drugs. Dr Kendrick reveals what a small change in the rules can do to boost the bottom line.

Just over two years ago HealthinsightUK was launched with a commitment to promote the treatment of lifestyle diseases by encouraging patients to make changes in the habits that were making them ill. This simple and obvious idea has now made it to prime time television as a three part BBC 1 series headed by a GP who’s both supportive and nutritionally literate. Think of the social and financial savings if all GPs were like that.