One of my biggest challenges as a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner is dispelling the “fat makes you fat” and “fat causes heart disease” myth to my clients. There’s also significant evidence to indicate that in most people, dietary fat does not negatively affect serum cholesterol. If cholesterol does go up as a result of the consumption [...]
I'm wondering if it's at all possible to un-do the damage done from Dr. Ancel Keys' infamous Seven Countries Study. Dr. Keys cherry picked his data to support a pre-existing notion he had about a connection between saturated fat, cholesterol and heart disease. He went on to make the cover of Time magazine for his [...]
In one of my previous posts, I brought to light the fact that although technology has delivered us many wonderful opportunities, it had not delivered an absence from diseases of historic and epidemic proportions. This week we’ll take a look at technology’s silver lining – unprecedented access to a wealth of information at our fingertips [...]
