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.

(Jump to the Executive Summary at the end if you don’t want the full monty). This is a review of a book written by James & Hannah Yoseph entitled How statin drugs really lower cholesterol: and kill ...

* An Australian study aimed to assess the association of a low-carbohydrate diet score (LCD) with the incidence of type 2 diabetes (T2D) using data from a study of Melbourne residents. * The study ...

Food (noun): “Substance taken into body to maintain life and growth; nutriment” (Ref 1). In a world where food has become huge business ... an emotional crutch ... one of the greatest pleasures in ...

* 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 ...

* As late as March 11th, 2020, the UK government and medical officers issued practical and minimally disruptive advice to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus. * On March 16th, the now infamous ...

* The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) is the organisation in the UK that sets medical guidelines for every drug, every intervention, and every procedure. * NICE published guidelines ...

* Continuing our mini-series on seed oils, this note summarises the randomised controlled trial (RCT) evidence for studies that reduced and/or modified fat intake. Fat intake modification aimed to ...

I was approached by a fellow real foodie, Robert M, who was shocked to find the following disclaimer stuck in his local library copy of “The Ketogenic Cookbook”: Sign up to get full access to this and ...

* 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 ...

For a quick recap, last week we looked at the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) personality profiling tool. It is about preferences and not skills. It is based on three personality dimensions, which ...