Archive for 2015

Current Posts – 12 March 2015

by / on 12 Mar 2015, / in editorial

Medical opinion that the Saatchi […]

Sacred cows dispatched at South African low-carb, high-fat summit

4 by / on 5 Mar 2015, / in high fat diet

Last month sounds of the slaughtering of sacred nutritional cows could be heard coming from Cape Town International Convention Centre in South Africa – the venue for the first International Summit on low-carb, high-fat (LCHF) diets.

Among those forensically dispatched were such perennials of the dietitians’ lexicon as: obesity is simply the result of greed and sloth; calories in equal calories out (CICO, pronounced psycho); saturated fat causes heart disease, and type 2 diabetes is irreversible.

Current Posts – 5 March 2015

by / on 5 Mar 2015, / in editorial

Fighting in the high-fat low-carb […]

Keep statin supremo away from the missing side-effect data

31 by / on 19 Feb 2015, / in statins

The statin saga – do they help or harm? – took a fascinating new turn on Sunday when statin supremo Professor Sir Rory Collins confessed to the Express that he hadn’t actually done the analysis needed to uncover the true side-effect rate.

If you’ve been following this pharmacological soap, your response when you heard this was probably first amazed laughter, followed by outrage at the breath-taking hypocrisy and then, after a brief reflection, alarm at the implications.

Current Posts – 19 February 2015

by / on 19 Feb 2015, / in editorial

 Welcome to a new episode […]

New wonder weight-loss drug. Don’t worry about the cancer

13 by / on 13 Feb 2015, / in weight loss

Liraglutide hit the headlines in January because it had just been approved by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for the treatment of obesity, to be marketed as “Saxenda”. The EMA had previously approved it for type 2 diabetes in July 2009. In America the approval for obesity had come a month earlier in December 2014.

Current Posts – 13 February 2015

by / on 13 Feb 2015, / in editorial

Developing a safe and effective […]

Cancer and genes: Why we have got it wrong Part 2. Why the foetus holds the key

7 by / on 28 Jan 2015, / in cancer

Here are some heretical thoughts about the war against cancer.
“It’s unwinnable. We not going to cure it and we don’t need to.”
“Everyone thinks being diagnosed with cancer is a calamity. It’s not necessarily the case. We can transform cancer from a dreaded killer to something we can live with.”

Current Posts – 28 January 2015

by / on 28 Jan 2015, / in editorial

 Like the proverbial bus service, […]

Cancer and genes: Have we got it badly wrong?

19 by / on 21 Jan 2015, / in cancer

Professor Mina Bissell presents a fascinating challenge to the cancer establishment. She is a highly respected academic and leading authority on breast cancer at the University of California, where she is Distinguished Scientist with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Life Sciences Division next to UCB campus.

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