* Dietary goals for Americans were first published in 1977. The Dietary Guidelines for Americans were first published in 1980 and are revised every five years. The two key guidelines that have most ...

We’re kicking off with a review of last year. We covered fewer epidemiology papers in 2025 – as set out in the 700th note (Ref 1). There are only so many times you can say association not causation, ...

This is the final of three articles looking at the statin trials that have been conducted and the pooling together of those trials with the technique called meta-analysis. The Clinical Trial Service ...

* This week's note looks at a classic statin/heart-disease study from 1994 – the Scandinavian Simvastatin Survival Study (abbreviated to 4S). * Simvastatin was made by Merck & Co. Merck funded, ...

* Loma Linda University has studied Seventh Day Adventists (SDAs) over many decades. * A recent paper using data from the Adventists Health Study 2 (AHS-2) examined associations between vegetarian vs ...

During the recent update of our zoeharcombe.com web site we reviewed the hundreds of articles to assign them the best category and tag matches for optimal searching. I also chose my favourite articles ...

* An unusual and clever study has been published using healthcare data from Wales. * Wales introduced a shingles vaccine policy that had an absolute cut-off date. People born before 2 September 1933 ...

* Lean Mass Hyper Responder (LMHR) was the term developed by Dave Feldman to describe lean, fit, metabolically healthy people, who exhibit striking increases in cholesterol when adopting a ketogenic ...

* Last week's note reviewed a Korean population study, which led to headlines such as "Taking statins could slash dementia risk." The claims were not robust. * This week's note reports findings from a ...

* This week’s note contains a podcast with Hannah Sutter and research about ketogenic diets for epilepsy. Hannah is particularly interested in (and provides food for) the ketogenic diet for epilepsy – ...

* This week's note was inspired by a podcast I did where I described olive oil as "not all that." * It opens with the basic facts about fat. * It then looks at olive oil, which is 100% fat (mostly ...

* A recent obesity Congress generated headlines about the 'weight loss jab' cutting heart disease. Two papers were referenced in a press release from the Congress – one has been published. * The ...