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.

* 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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

* 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 ...

An excellent presentation was posted on Youtube on 12 February 2017 (try this if the first link doesn’t work). Just 22 minutes long, it is well worth a watch. The speaker, Professor Salim Yusuf, is a ...

* 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 ...

* 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 is about fibre. A recently published paper assumed that there is an optimal fibre intake (25-30g daily) and it investigated how people can be encouraged to consume this. * The ...

I was invited by The Nutrition Network to do a talk at their annual summer party. Members of the Nutrition Network are real food nutritionists and natural health practitioners and so I didn’t think ...