For the record – the real truth about dried fruit
There is a column on the Health page in You Magazine on 18th December 2011 – The truth about dried fruit. It is the latest in a series of columns intended to give some snappy and informative facts about foods and to dispel some myths. To date we have done the truth about butter, water, [...]
Read more »Who’s teaching our children about ‘nutrition’?
I came across a school book for GCSE in Home Economics: Food & Nutrition recently. As someone who has studied nutrition extensively – and found virtually everything being taught to be wrong – I was naturally curious. Kellogg’s & Coco-pops I picked up the main textbook “Examining Food & Nutrition” by Jenny Ridgwell (1996). The [...]
Read more »Nestle and Change4life
Well done to the Children’s Food Campaign for spotting Nestle using the change4life logo as part of a promotion to get people to eat more confectionery and sugary cereal. Is there no limit to the depth to which processed food companies will stoop? Nestle have started a campaign whereby people collect tokens from their processed [...]
Read more »“Surgery is better than dieting, says conflicted doctor”
“Surgery is better than dieting, says top doctor”. Zoe Harcombe highlights the conflict of interest in this Sunday Times story.
Read more »Statins with your burger? Better add a pregnancy test too
This story came out on 12 August 2010. I follow BBC Health news on Twitter and they announced: “Fast food outlets should consider handing out cholesterol-lowering drugs to combat the effects of fatty food, link here The article opens with: “Fast food outlets should consider handing out cholesterol-lowering drugs to combat the effects of fatty [...]
Read more »Weight Watchers works – according to a study funded by Weight Watchers
“One pound of fat contains 3,500 calories. To lose 1lb a week you would need to cut out 3,500 calories from your overall weekly nutritional requirements, this equates to needing a deficit of 500 calories a day.”[i] (Zoe Hellman, Weight Watchers dietician) This is the formula believed by Weight Watchers, NICE, the NHS, the Department [...]
Read more »Kellogg’s Coco Pops Advert
Bit of a long blog this, but hopefully worth it! 1) I subscribe to the Children’s Food Campaign newsletter and support their campaigns. The CFC got a great article in The Independent, which can be seen here. 2) This was an extract from the Children’s Food Campaign January newsletter: “Ever thought of avoiding Coco Pops [...]
Read more »Food Intolerance is all in the mind, says study sponsored by Flour Advisory Board!
“Nine in ten Britons who believe they have a food allergy are perfectly healthy, researchers say“. Harcombe Diet followers will immediately spot the error – either in this write up from the Daily Mail Science reporter (Fiona MacRae) or from the press release itself. Food allergy and Food Intolerance are seriously different – potentially fatally. [...]
Read more »Ban butter to save lives says heart surgeon
Shyam Kolvekar (a heart surgeon) is all over the news today having asserted that Butter should be banned to save thousands of lives. The Daily Mail asserted “Saturated fat is blamed for a third of the 200,000 premature deaths from heart disease a year.” Facts please, Daily Mail?! There is not even a consistent association [...]
Read more »Conflicts of interest? Chair of the National Obesity Forum
I attended a recent National Obesity Forum conference in Wales. LighterLife were one of the sponsors and had a stand for the delegates to visit during every break (500-600 calories a day in artificial liquid form is not my idea of a healthy diet). I picked up a leaflet on LighterLife and found this wonderful [...]
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