Men’s Health and Eat this, Not that – bad science at its worst!
“Swap cheddar for edam and Snickers for Flakes and you could lose two stone in a year” screamed the Daily Mail article headline on 11 January 2012. The claim comes from a study “by the team behind Men’s Health magazine”. As you will be able to see from the link, the article lists 21 items [...]
Read more »Weight Watchers New Year’s Day advert
Weight Watchers are running one of the longest adverts on British television, simultaneously on commercial channels, between 6.30pm and 7pm on January 1 2012. The advert was announced in the media so that coverage could start before the advert. The advert (three minutes and 10 seconds long) is fronted by Alesha Dixon who has never [...]
Read more »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 »“Divorce rate for over-60s surges”
So screamed the Daily Mail headline on 19 November 2011. “Britain is seeing a boom in ‘silver separations’”, read the first line. I wonder if they do with other headlines what they do with drug and disease headlines? The article soon gave some numbers – 11,500 over-60s were granted a divorce in 2009. It takes [...]
Read more »Eggs & Prostate Cancer
Yet another story came out over the past few days trying to demonise a real food. The Daily Mail ran the story “Eating just THREE eggs a week ‘increases chance of men getting prostate cancer’” I have the following points to make: 1) Association vs causation: This study makes the usual and unforgiveable mistake of [...]
Read more »The Vegetarian Myth – Lierre Keith
This could well be the most controversial blog post yet – where do each of us draw the line on eating and/or wearing animals and/or their products. Or, as Lierre Keith suggests, should we be drawing a circle and not a line? This is a review of The Vegetarian Myth and the Amazon reviews confirm [...]
Read more »Red meat & cancer & very bad journalism
I am struggling to think of a diet & health story, which has been reported worse than the one dominating the press this week – and there tends to be at least one in the press every day. The newspapers seem to think that “artery-clogging” is an adjective to precede either, or both, of the [...]
Read more »Victoria Beckham expecting a baby (& David!)
As someone working exclusively in the world of obesity, diets and weight loss, I confess that Victoria Beckham (aka Posh Spice) fascinates me. Other than Nicole Richie, it is difficult to think of someone who has stayed so skinny for so long. Having personal experience of the misery caused by low calories diets, I have [...]
Read more »UK Women are the “World’s Worst Dieters”
This story was in the Daily Mail December 22 2010. The headline says “World’s Worst Dieters” but the article is only talking about women, so we need to be fair to men here. SPA Future Thinking, a market research firm did a “Question of Taste” survey. They surveyed 1,534 women around the world in the [...]
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