Red meat & cancer & very bad journalism
I am struggling to think of a diet & health story, which has been reported worse than the one dominating the press this week – and there tends to be at least one in the press every day. The...
View ArticleRed meat & diabetes?
There is an article widely reported in the media today (11 August 2011). The original research was published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. You can see the abstract for free and the...
View ArticleRed meat & mortality & the usual bad science
The media lit up on the evening of Monday March 12th as a press release was issued about an article in the Archives of Internal Medicine published that day. The BBC were among the first to pick up the...
View ArticleRed meat & mortality & the usual bad science – Part 2
I blogged on March 12 2012 about this press release about an article in the Articles of Internal Medicine published on the same day. The article now appears to be unavailable on free view. On March...
View ArticleAn apple a day does (not) keep the doctor away – more bad science
I love the Mail! I would have a fraction of the diet and obesity stories to comment on that I do without it. This blog post comes from today’s Mail on Sunday – from the health section in Review...
View ArticleWhy hasn’t my healthy diet cut my cholesterol?
Tuesday’s Daily Mail has a section called “Good Health” and the resident GP answering questions is Dr Martin Scurr. On Tuesday 26th June 2012, Susan Bence emailed in to say: “Twelve months ago, I had a...
View ArticleRed meat, iron and Alzheimer’s
On 23 August 2013 news headlines were “Red meat could raise Alzheimer’s risk.” “Iron in red meat could raise the risk of Alzheimer’s” said the Daily Mail actual newspaper. On line we had a fuller...
View ArticleHorsemeat Scandal – What’s all the fuss about?
The UK is in the midst of a horsemeat scandal. The jokes are set to run and run (ha ha) but, in reality, this is no laughing matter. The story first broke in the middle of January 2013 with horse meat...
View ArticleMeat consumption and mortality
An article entitled “Meat consumption and mortality – results from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer [EPIC] and Nutrition” was published on 7 March 2013 in the BMC Medicine Journal....
View ArticleWorld Health Organisation, meat & cancer
Today, 26th October 2015, the World Health Organisation declared the consumption of red meat as “probably carcinogenic to humans, based on limited evidence that the consumption of red meat causes...
View Article“Mediterranean Diet could prevent 20,000 deaths…“
These were the headlines that we woke up to on Thursday 29th September 2016. More specifically, it was claimed that a Mediterranean diet could prevent 20,000 deaths in Britain each year. That’s an...
View ArticleIn defence of red meat
I’ve had a fun week. I was approached by an organisation called the Sustainable Food Trust to ask if I would speak at a couple of events that they had organised on November 23rd 2016. When I heard...
View ArticleA red meat meta-analysis
On 28th November 2016, this article, “In Defence of Red Meat”, suggested that you should: “Ask for a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials studying red meat consumption (let alone grass fed) –...
View Article10 foods account for half of heart & diabetes deaths?
It seems that the number 10 is the new nice round number. Not 5-a-day, but 10-a-day last week. This week the headlines were about 10 foods linked to half of heart, stroke and diabetes (type 2) deaths....
View ArticleRed meat: Human and planet health
There was a fresh three-pronged attack on red meat last week – this time in the BMJ. First, there was an article entitled “Mortality from different causes associated with meat, heme iron, nitrates, and...
View ArticleReview of 2016
These are the topics that I’ve researched and blogged about this year: January New Year Resolutions – how to be the 1 in 12. Research shows that just 1 in 12 people achieve New Year Resolutions. What...
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Review of 2017
These are the topics that I’ve researched and blogged about this year: January The Case Against Sugar. A review of Gary Taubes’ book. The NHS – What’s The Future? The founding principles of the UK...
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Red meat & Cancer
It is estimated that 1 in 2 people in the UK will develop cancer in their lifetime (Ref 1). US statistics suggest that approximately 4 in 10 people will develop cancer in their lifetime (Ref 2)....
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Red meat: the evidence
In last week’s newsletter, I said that I would be covering a couple of stories that emanated from the European Society of Cardiology conference, which was held in Munich between August 25th and August...
View ArticleReview of 2018
A year ago, a review was published called “21st century science overload“. It reported that 2009 was the year when the total number of science papers passed the 50 million mark. The same Canadian...
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