In this series, Zoë chats with Dr Robert Cywes about carbohydrate addiction and obesity.

Zoë chats with Bill Padley about the Jamie Oliver and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall initiative on childhood obesity

Zoë chats with Bill Padley about the recent report looking into carbohydrates and cardiovascular disease. For show notes, visit http://dietandhealthtoday.com

Zoë Chats with Bill Padley about fats, and why we shouldn't fear them

I was particularly horrified by headlines last week that “Up to 56,000 children may get statins, say scientists”. The headlines were based on a press release by University College London, which in turn was based on an article published in the Journal of Clinical Lipidology. I was horrified because I know what cholesterol does and I know what statins do. I chatted with Bill Padley of Talk Radio Europe about the report.

Zoe chats with Bill Padley from TRE about calories

Zoë Chats with Pippa Jones about the Tim Noakes Trial and running around Wales on low-carb

The headlines on Friday 17th March were effectively “Call off the search – we’ve found the healthiest hearts in the world.” They had been found in the Tsimane people of Bolivia. The headlines came from a study in The Lancet.

Zoe and Pippa Jones chat about general health topics in the news this week, plus an overview of Low Carb Breckenridge 2017

In 2011 I presented at the Brighton Science Festival. A fellow presenter was Professor Klim McPherson – an esteemed epidemiologist. Professor McPherson was asked a question about the future of the UK National Health Service (NHS) and he answered that he thought Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) would ‘break’ the NHS by 2020. How prophetic his reply is proving to be. With three years to go, the NHS is currently showing signs of breaking point. T2D alone may not be responsible, but it could well be the avoidable burden that has just tipped the balance from manageable to unmanageable.