


Coconut oil is not heart healthy
Coconut oil is not heart healthy Highly successful Industry marketing has convinced many that coconut oil is a ‘health food’. Unfortunately, this is not borne out in the scientific literature. Coconut oil is unusual amongst plant foods in being high in saturated fat,...
Review of the plant-based nutrition and lifestyle medicine news September 2025
Review of the plant-based nutrition and lifestyle medicine news September 2025 This month I share research on food as medicine, chronic disease prevention, and the environmental case for plants. Plant-Based Diets and Diabetes We have known for a while that high...
Diet, lifestyle and breast cancer
Diet, lifestyle and breast cancer By Dr Shireen Kassam Breast cancer is now the commonest cancer in the UK and the most common cancer in women globally. One in 7 women in the UK will develop breast cancer in their lifetime. The genes we inherit are responsible for...