Take vitamin e with your essential fats - Re your report on essential fatty acids (WDDTY vol 14 no 2), we know that EFAs are fragile and easily oxidised, so people who consume oils need to hav...

Confused reading of the data - Your reporter Pat Thomas confuses two studies which we shall refer to as the Health Food Shoppers study (HFS) and the Oxford Vegetarian study (OV). Mo...

British women deficient in energy - British women of childbearing age are deficient in energy and protein levels and most of the nutrients necessary for healthy babies. ... ...

Brittle bones - Some hard truths about preventing bone loss - Osteoporosis, which means ‘porous bones’, describes any condition that reduces bone mass. Symptoms include leg and foot cramps; height loss; lower-bac...

New heart risk: amino acid - Just when medicine had re-established cholesterol as the major cause of heart attack, new research has thrown up a new culprit that nobody had conside...

Low-down on low-fat milk - For years, low-fat cow’s milk has been enthusiastically promoted as the perfect health drink, providing adults with ‘essential’ vitamins and minerals,...

Heart attacks - An ounce of prevention - The latest research shows that all the aggressive drugs and surgery thrown at heart attack victims is far less effective than comprehensive change of...

In defence of the so-called bad fats - The world of dietary fats is a complicated alphabet soup of names and numbers, and our understanding of how each type of fat works in the body - for g...