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 category covers all cardiovascular disease (CVD) including strokes, clots and blood pressure. If you’re interested in cholesterol, check out the “Cholesterol & Statins” category. The DASH diet is ...

Carbohydrates are organic molecules in which carbon, hydrogen and oxygen are bonded together in the ratio Cx(H2O)y, where x and y are whole numbers that differ for different carbohydrates. The body ...

* 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 ...

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This website, several hundred newsletters, podcasts, videos and research papers are here to help you understand the facts about nutrition. As an author and peer-reviewer of journal articles, each week ...

I am still trying to find the earliest reference to the 3,500 formula and then to trace it through to when it became ‘folklore’. To date, I have found a book called Diet and Health by Lulu Hunt Peters ...

* 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 ...

Who are you? I’m a researcher, author, blogger and public speaker in the field of diet and health. My particular areas of interest/expertise are public health dietary guidelines (especially dietary ...

Bios (Ali) Alison Morgan holds a degree in agriculture from the University of Reading and a postgraduate degree in global ...