Dr Gary Fettke is a retired Tasmanian Orthopaedic Surgeon and a vocal proponent of nutrition being a major component of prevention and management of modern disease.

* This week we look at the results from the KETO-CTA trial and five critiques that have been made in a rapid response pre-print paper. These five themes reflected much debate on social media. * The ...

Executive summary * Last week’s note reviewed a Korean population study, which led to headlines such as “Taking statins could ...

* An article has been published, which aimed to investigate the robustness of the claim that saturated fat clogs arteries and causes heart disease. * I start this note with some basic facts about food ...

* This week's note was inspired by a newsletter about a presentation (by Denise Minger) about a diet used decades ago for the treatment of obesity and other health conditions. * The diet was called ...

* This note summarises what carbohydrates are, from fructose to fibre. * It briefly looks at the role carbohydrates have played historically – feeding and growing the population and freeing people up ...

* Most papers presenting the benefits of statins have been done by the Oxford Cholesterol Treatment Trialists (CTT) team. They tend to present benefits of statins in relative risk terms – with claims ...

Nina Teicholz PhD is a science journalist and author of the New York Times bestseller, The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat, and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet (2014). She’s been a pioneer in ...

* A recent presentation at an American Heart Association conference generated global headlines. It claimed that eating within an 8-hour window each day was linked to a 91% higher risk of ...