nutrition and health

How many calories must a man wolf down?

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Dr Paul Clayton’s Health Newsletter Spring 2015 The answer, my friend, may surprise you. According to the UK’s Advertising Standards Agency (ASA), it would be extremely difficult for consumers to devise a 600-calorie diet providing 100% of vitamin and mineral RDAs. What geniuses … … because the literature clearly shows that a minimum of 750 … Read more

Problems with emulsifiers?

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Dr Paul Clayton’s Health Newsletter Spring 2015 A new paper in Nature (Chassaing et al ’15) has shown that when mice consume high doses of the emulsifiers commonly used in processed foods, they develop changes in their microbiome and go on to develop gut inflammation, metabolic syndrome, and weight gain. At first sight this seems … Read more

Vitamin D brain effects

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Dr Paul Clayton’s Health Newsletter Spring 2015 Research by the legendary Bruce Ames has thrown up new links between maternal vitamin D, or the lack of it, and autism (Patrick & Ames ’15). Their work indicates that adequate levels of vitamin D may be required to produce neurotransmitters dopamine, oxytocin, vasopressin and especially serotonin in … Read more

Vitamin D and lung disease

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Dr Paul Clayton’s Health Newsletter Spring 2015 Breathing comes so naturally that much of the time we don’t even notice that we’re doing it – unless we get out of breath after heavy exertion. That pressured feeling soon passes, and breathing becomes invisible again. But for some that feeling never goes, and the constant struggle … Read more

Pro-vegetarian diet

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Dr Paul Clayton’s Health Newsletter Spring 2015 There are hard-core vegetarians, of course, but many of the folks I know who call themselves vegetarians eat chicken, fish, dairy and eggs. They tend to eschew red meat, and are more correctly diagnosed, even if they don’t know the term, as pro-vegetarians. A pro-vegetarian diet doesn’t make … Read more