Author, obesity researcher .

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 [...]

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Exercise – personal experience

Hi all – I’ve just got back from a week’s skiing in Italy, so here’s a blog on my experience of doing more activity than normal. Andy and I normally share 3 dog walks a day. We always do the morning half hour together and Andy generally does the night walk and then whoever is [...]

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Sugar – how quickly can we get hooked?

I had an interesting experience over the festive season: I helped someone with an employment law case (I used to be an HR Director) and they very kindly sent me the biggest box of chocolates ever as a thank you. (My love of chocolate is well known). This was a 1.4kg box from Hotel Chocolat [...]

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Should a diet advisor be slim?

When Atkins slipped on the ice and fell, there were more media comments about allegations that he was very overweight at the time of his death than there were about the tragedy of slipping on a NY pavement. I regularly attend obesity conferences and you may be interested to know that the size of people [...]

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Lose Weight New Year’s Resolution: Motivation Tips Video

Here’s a short video with some (hopefully) motivational thoughts, so that you can make this the last time you start a new diet. This time you will stick to it and get there! The three key messages are: 1) Tomorrow never comes, so you must start today. If you keep saying you’ll have another ‘bad’ [...]

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BBC Radio Manchester Interview

Click this link to listen to BBC Radio Manchester Interview This was recorded live on 29 December 2009. BBC Manchester very kindly worked with BBC Radio Wales so that I could do the interview from there. BBC Wales was like a ghost town – the coffee shop was closed and I was the only person [...]

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Walk the dog or go to the gym?! (part 2)

Another article appeared on this topic in November 2009. This one was commissioned by Bob Martin (the company that does worm tablets etc). The dog product companies have obviously realised this story is a good way to get into the national press… This study was a larger study – 5,000 people, including 3,000 dog owners. [...]

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Eating to avoid osteoporosis

Approximately 3 million people in the UK have osteoporosis. A study called “The diagnosis of osteoporosis”, estimated that 15% of women will have osteoporosis by the age of 50, 30% at the age of 70 and 40% at the age of 80. Here are the three most important nutrients for protection against this condition: 1) [...]

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BBC Radio Wales Interview

Click this link to listen to Radio Wales Interview Thank you Jamie & Louise for having me on your fab show this morning. Jamie & Louise are on week day mornings from 9am-noon and they play brilliant tracks and have guests on to chat about everything under the sun. On before me were Lesley Garrett; [...]

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Walk the dog or go to the gym?!

The following research was commissioned by Butcher’s Dog Food food: A study of more than 1,500 dog owners and gym goers found that the average gym goer covers 468 miles per year and the average dog walker does 676 miles per year. That’s 208 more for the dog walkers! Dog owners apparently walk the equivalent [...]

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