I gave up Starbucks for a week and drank this high-fat, buttered coffee drink instead — here’s the verdict

Facebook/Bulletproof • Bulletproof Coffee, a “biohacking” wellness brand, is bringing a bottled version of buttered coffee to market. • The ready-to-drink product will roll out to over 400 Whole Foods stores nationwide this fall. • The drink taps into a Silicon Valley diet craze that has techies eating lots of fat. This past week, I […]

A high-fat diet can help you live longer – but carbohydrates linked to higher death risk

Eating fat in moderation can even help you live longer. The research turns decades of conventional advice on its head. Diets loaded with carbs such as pasta, bread and rice were associated with a 28 per cent higher risk of death compared to low carbohydrate diets. But high-fat diets were linked with a 23 per […]

Diet could REVERSE negative effects of high-fat food – and CURE liver disease

Scientists who carried out experiments in mice have revealed that a compound commonly found in extra-virgin olive oil can reverse some of the negative effects of a high-fat diet. This compound, called hydroxytyrosol, was able to reverse signs of insulin resistance – a precursor of diabetes – and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in mice fed […]