* “The EAT Lancet diet” was published in January 2019. The diet (with ranges) was specified to the gram and calorie. Animal food intake (meat fish, eggs and dairy) could be zero. * I analysed the ...

The corker of a chat was with Dr Ken Berry. The disappointment was that the podcast platform we use, Riverside, had an outage on Tuesday 26th August 2025, when we recorded this. We realised something ...

* Last week we looked at the origins of beliefs about cholesterol and heart disease. This week we look at the origins of beliefs about dietary fat and heart disease. * American soldiers were the ...

* This note examines two research questions with original references of the time: i) How was any connection between cholesterol and heart disease first made? ii) Does eating cholesterol raise blood ...

Please note that the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) all-foods database is not precise and some numbers don’t add up exactly. It is a good guide rather than a precision tool.