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.

The HPCSA vs Prof. Tim Noakes.  I finally got on the stand on Friday 21st October. I finished giving evidence Monday lunchtime and was then cross-examined until some time on Tuesday. Nina Teicholz was next and finished evidence and cross-examination on the same day leaving us one final day for Caryn Zinn to give evidence and be cross-examined and for one last ‘play’ by the defence...

On Friday 9th September 2016, an article was published in The Lancet with a quite extraordinary editorial. The editorial has been brilliantly dissected by Dr Malcolm Kendrick and I suggest that you check that out on his site..

The newspaper headlines were glowing “Statins prevent 80,000 heart attacks and strokes a year in UK, study finds“ and “A third of adults should take statins, new research suggests”. Taking out a full page advert, in every UK newspaper, could not have been more favourable.

May 2016 was the saw the launch of the Public Health Collaboration (PHC). PHC has been set up by Sam Feltham, a former personal trainer who has closed down his profitable “Smash the fat” organisation to focus on running PHC as a crowd funded charity. Zoë chats with Pippa about the impact that the news had.

Zoe Harcombe chats with Pippa Jones about the recently released dietary guidelines for Americans for 2015

Zoe chats with Pippa Jones about how to keep on track and in shape over Christmas.

On May 8th 2015, The Independent, and a few other newspapers, reported “High-protein diets increase risk of weight gain, study finds”. In this study, the researchers used the PREDIMED (PREvencion con DIeta MEDiterranea) data to look at the association between protein intake and weight and then protein intake and deaths.

Pippa Jones of TRE talks with Zoe harcombe and Brian Wilson about Brian's recent article titled "The Obesity Epidemic has been Government-funded"

Zoe chats with Pippa Jones about carbohydrates and the TV doctors