Articles by Dr Simpson

Ancel Keys and Revisionist History

Was Ancel Keys responsible for the modern epidemic of obesity? If you have read any low carb blog lately, you would think so. Their revisionist history is broken down to this: Ancel Keys was an influential scientist who thought fat was to blame for heart disease He did a study of diet and correlated fat…

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The Modern Mediterranean Diet

The Modern Mediterranean Diet has the best long-term data for longevity, reduced risk of cardiovascular disease, reduced risk of cancer, and the least inflammatory of all diets. This is a history of how this diet was modified and became the best diet you never heard about.

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Continuous Blood Glucose Monitors for Non-Diabetics

The proliferation of continuous glucose monitors for non-diabetics has allowed the development of less expensive equipment and provided an important tool to see glucose variability among people. This provides real-time data regarding diet.

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Bioidentical Hormones Cause Weight Gain

bioidentical hormones cause weight gain. In addition, while menopausal hormone replacement is needed, compounded so called “plant based” hormones are mostly a scam.

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Vitamins and Supplements for Prevention of Heart Disease and Cancer

Citing over 80 studies there is no proof that primary prevention of heart disease or cancer can be achieved through vitamins and supplements. Some, like vitamin A types, may cause harm.

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Can You Beet Hypertension?

Nitrates are abundant in green vegetables and are an important to reduce hypertension. They do this by their high nitrate concentration which converts to nitric oxide.

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Microplastics in Fish, in Fruit, in Water

Microplastics are in our food from vegetables to fish, from meat to fruit. They are in the air we breathe, and we don’t know what harm they can do

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Fructose: Evil or Misunderstood?

Fructose may not be the evil ingredient that it was proposed to be in 2010.

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Red Meat: Is it good or bad? The answer is sometimes

Red meat is every bit as contentious as politics. In this case carnivores vs vegans – here is the latest data with references

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