The 2 day diet
The Michael Mosley August 2012 Horizon programme started a significant interest in intermittent fasting. As my special report (free) explains here, the programme looked at a number of different restricted eating options (eating less all the time, fasting for 4 days, alternate day fasting). The option that Mosley found the most tolerable was eating ‘normally’ [...]
Read more »The Mediterranean Diet and heart disease
The last week in February (2013) saw headlines all over the world: “Mediterranean diet shown to ward off heart attack and stroke.” The Guardian ran with “Mediterranean diet ‘cuts strokes and heart attacks in at-risk groups‘.” The Sydney Morning Herald announced “Mediterranean diet cuts risk of first heart attack by 30%”. The world headlines were [...]
Read more »Australian Dietary Guidelines (Feb 2013)
New Australian Dietary Guidelines were published on February 18th 2013. Hundreds of pages of information are available here. The main “Eat for health: Australian Dietary Guidelines” document alone is 226 pages. The latest guidelines acknowledge the extent of the problem: “If current trends continue in Australia, it is estimated that by 2025, 83% of men [...]
Read more »The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges obesity initiative – Stephanie Seneff’s submission
Back in April 2012, The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges announced that they were launching a review into the UK “obesity crisis”. The initiative was launched in a front page article in The Observer 15th April 2012. The idea was that the body that represents 220,000 doctors in the UK would seek evidence from any [...]
Read more »The medical profession’s prescription for the nation’s obesity crisis
Back in April 2012, The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges announced that they were launching a review into the UK obesity crisis. The initiative was launched in a front page article in The Observer 15th April 2012. The idea was that the body that represents 220,000 doctors in the UK would seek evidence from any [...]
Read more »The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges obesity initiative – my submission
Back in April 2012, The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges announced that they were launching a review into the UK “obesity crisis”. The initiative was launched in a front page article in The Observer 15th April 2012. The idea was that the body that represents 220,000 doctors in the UK would seek evidence from any [...]
Read more »American dietitians, big ‘food’ companies & conflict of interest
I obviously follow like minded people on twitter because one item has dominated my timeline over the past 24 hours. Michele Simon, author of the brilliant book Appetite for Profit, has written a report called “And now a word from our sponsors. Are America’s nutritional professionals in the pocket of Big Food?” I have no [...]
Read more »Coca-Cola, Obesity and Conflict
Coca-Cola launched an advert about obesity. You can see the advert here as part of a short clip on ABC news. The ABC news item had an interesting factoid in it: “Sugary sodas are the number one source of calories in the American diet.” The Coca-cola advert has a female voice over – that kind [...]
Read more »Just cut fat to cut fat?!
An article was published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) on Thursday 6th December 2012. It led to a few articles in the media on Friday 7th December. The BMJ article was called: “Effect of reducing total fat intake on body weight: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials and cohort studies“. It wasn’t [...]
Read more »People can be fat yet fit, however…
“People can be fat yet fit, research suggests” was the BBC headline. “People can be fat AND fit as study finds obesity doesn’t automatically lead to ill-health” claimed the Daily Mail. “Fat but fit people as healthy as normal weight ones: research” was The Telegraph’s take on the study. And the story was covered from [...]
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