The low down on alcohol & weight loss
This post is about alcohol. It was written for people following The Harcombe Diet, so references to Phase 2, Candida, Food Intolerance, Hypoglycaemia and ‘cheating’ may not be familiar to everyone. However, the information about the carb, calorie and composition of the different types of alcohol should be interesting and useful for anyone trying to [...]
Read more »Better vitamin maths this week!
How to get vitamin B6
Read more »More bad (vitamin) maths
Looks like I’ll be able to do a weekly blog on this idiotic regular snippet in the Daily Mail Good Health. Last week it was how (not) to get vitamin B12, this week is it how (not) to get magnesium – which is a mineral for starters – not even a vitamin! I did notice [...]
Read more »Olive Oil can Tap Dance!
Time to set the record straight on olive oil, or it won’t be long before we see the title of this thread as the next Daily Mail article! Here is the Daily Mail article from 19 April 2010. Olive oil can now apparently switch off genes and previous articles have told us that olive oil [...]
Read more »Kellogg’s Special K Mini Breaks
I saw a full page advert in a Sunday supplement magazine yesterday for Special K Mini Breaks – Chocolate variety. Described as “Mmmmmmmmmm”; “crunch”; “delish”; “biscuit”‘; “chocolate”; “crispy”; “choccy”; “biscuity”‘; “crunch”; “moreish”; “99 calories a bag”; “crunchy, delicious, biscuity bites”. How to get every word possible to tempt a dieter to eat stuff that they [...]
Read more »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 [...]
Read more »The Ultimate Yoghurt Question!
I get many questions about yoghurt and The Harcombe Diet. I’m hoping that this will be the definitive answer to any more yoghurt questions. If it is not answered here, I’ll show you how to do your own research… Q) Should I have Natural Live Yoghurt with a fat meal or a carb meal? A) [...]
Read more »Which 2 ingredients do UK people eat the most of?
I have been analysing the National Food Survey stats (DEFRA) for some months. Sadly this stops at the year 2000 – the FSA took over responsibility after this and we haven’t had a survey since. This is a tragic loss of continuous data. However, I have just compared some of the yr 2000 DEFRA figs [...]
Read more »Guideline Daily Amounts – GDA’s
I thought I’d see if I could find a calculator on the internet anywhere to see what my diet would register on the GDA scale. I imagine it will score very badly, because we are supposed to be following the “Eatwell plate” and I think this is the cause of obesity, rather than the basis [...]
Read more »Mince Pies – what’s in them?
I stuck a box of Tesco (Finest) (Mini) Mince Pies in the trolley this week and here is what is in them: Mincemeat (40%), wheat flour, butter (15%), sugar, whey powder, salt, raising agents (sodium phosphate, sodium carbonate).The mincemeat contains: sultanas, sugar, apple, glucose syrup, currants, orange peel, sunflower oil, COURVOISIER VS Cognac (contains colour [...]
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