More Stuff

mostly from Twitter

Association between blood glucose variability and coronary plaque instability in patients with acute coronary syndromes

https://cardiab.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12933-015-0275-3

Postprandial hyperinsulinemia in patients with mild essential hypertension.

http://hyper.ahajournals.org/content/7/2/182.long

Progression of Vascular Calcification Is Increased With Statin Use in the Veterans Affairs Diabetes Trial (VADT)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3476911/

http://www.fin24.com/Opinion/noakes-legal-soap-opera-costs-taxpayers-plenty-20170522

chris c wrote:mostly from Twitter

Association between blood glucose variability and coronary plaque instability in patients with acute coronary syndromes

https://cardiab.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12933-015-0275-3

Postprandial hyperinsulinemia in patients with mild essential hypertension.

http://hyper.ahajournals.org/content/7/2/182.long

Progression of Vascular Calcification Is Increased With Statin Use in the Veterans Affairs Diabetes Trial (VADT)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3476911/

http://www.fin24.com/Opinion/noakes-legal-soap-opera-costs-taxpayers-plenty-20170522

The VADT trial did not get the publicity it deserved could it be that big pharma had no involvement in the trial 

Meanwhile more interesting stuff from twitter 

The effect of replacing saturated fat with mostly n-6 polyunsaturated fat on coronary heart disease: a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5437600/

Advising Consumption of Green Vegetables, Beef, and Full-Fat Dairy Products Has No Adverse Effects on the Lipid Profiles in Children

http://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/9/5/518/htm

graham64 wrote:
The effect of replacing saturated fat with mostly n-6 polyunsaturated fat on coronary heart disease: a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5437600/

Oh dear, that didn't go too well did it?

Advising Consumption of Green Vegetables, Beef, and Full-Fat Dairy Products Has No Adverse Effects on the Lipid Profiles in Children

http://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/9/5/518/htm

But . . . but . . . but . . . everyone knows that children should be put on low fat diets by age 2. This is Settled Science and must never be questioned. ps please send the money

Along the same lines

http://discovermagazine.com/2004/oct/inuit-paradox

spot the date

hint: it isn't a paradox it's reality

Prevalence of prediabetes in England from 2003 to 2011: population-based, cross-sectional study

http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/4/6/e005002.full

SCARY numbers. Of course this will be blamed on not eating low fat diets, and the fact that before low fat diets were invented the numbers were minuscule will be conveniently ignored.

Better news

An Online Intervention Comparing a Very Low-Carbohydrate Ketogenic Diet and Lifestyle Recommendations Versus a Plate Method Diet in Overweight Individuals With Type 2 Diabetes: A Randomized Controlled Trial

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5329646/?report=printable

"More than half of the participants in the intervention group (6/11, 55%) lowered their HbA1c to less than 6.5% versus 0% (0/ in the control group"

Not entirely stellar compared to what happens anecdotally, but at least it was a STUDY so harder to ignore