Recent Studies
The PURE study is a large project which looks at many aspects of diet and cardiovascular health. Among other things, it looks at fruit and vegetables as well as fats and carbohydrates intake and cardiovascular disease and deaths in 18 countries.
Several researchers and academic have significant reservations about the conclusions drawn by this study – see below for their opinions:
- Dr David Katz (Director of Prevention Research Center at Yale and past President of the American Colege of Lifestyle Medicine, bio here).
- Dr Neal Barnard (President of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine).