The men who made us fat – Episode 3
The final episode (aired 12th July 2012) looked at so called ‘healthy food’ and how this is marketed to people to convince them that it is OK to eat. Jacques Peretti starts the programme with a visit to a company called Kantar – they track the buying behaviour of 30,000 households nationwide. They sell this [...]
Read more »The men who made us fat – Episode 2
Here we go again! Episode 2 with Jacques Peretti. 24 million of us are now overweight “Our appetites supersized by big business.” This one is all about portion size. Jacques Peretti goes to Jester’s Diner in Great Yarmouth to find Britain’s biggest breakfast. The owner, Martin Smith, offers Peretti a choice of “The Big Boy” [...]
Read more »The men who made us fat
I’ve just finished watching this terrific programme on BBC2 (Thursday 14th June 2012). It will be on iplayer for just a week from now here. Full marks to the presenter, Jacques Peretti for getting together such greats as Robert Lustig, Gary Taubes, David Kessler, Philip James and for honouring John Yudkin posthumously. The programme opened [...]
Read more »Diabetes UK & Low Carb Diets – what is the official advice for diabetics?
Introduction The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimated that there were 171 million diabetes sufferers worldwide before the end of the last century. The (WHO) estimates that this will rise to 366 million by 2030. To use another data source to fill in some blanks and to get a longer timescale picture, another 2006 article estimates that [...]
Read more »Dr Aseem Malhotra rallies Jamie Oliver, Steven Gerrard, teachers & doctors to fight childhood obesity
Dr Aseem Malhotra, a cardiologist seeing the consequences of poor diet and obesity on a daily basis, has become a passionate campaigner in the field of obesity and health. I am delighted to say that he came across my book: “The Obesity Epidemic: What caused it? How can we stop it?” and, although it flies [...]
Read more »Chocolate ‘may help keep people slim’ (not)!
On Tuesday 27th March 2012 the headlines started “Chocolate ‘may help keep people slim‘” announced the BBC. The Independent headline was remarkably similar: Chocolate ‘can help keep you slim‘” Australia reported “Chocolate keeps you slim” and the American Huffington Post went with “Eating chocolate could keep you slim, study finds“ This is the original article [...]
Read more »Five a day: The truth
Five-a-day or pick-a-number-a-day The five-a-day campaign is actually a different number-a-day campaign across more than 25 countries. The UK swears by five-a-day. The USA proposes nine-a-day: two and a half cups of vegetables and two cups of fruit every day. Australia suggests five portions of vegetables and two of fruit, where a portion of vegetables counts as [...]
Read more »Why trying to ‘burn off’ food is a waste of time
On 30 Dec I tweeted: “All these people ‘walking off’ indulgence make me laugh – I’d have to walk to Bristol & back (54 miles) to counter a Duchy Xmas pudding!” “Oh & that doesn’t deduct the BMR calories I would have used anyway so make that to Bath and back!” Here’s the maths! One [...]
Read more »24,000 diabetes deaths a year ‘could be avoided’
This news story broke on 14 December 2011. There are 2.3 million diabetics in the UK. The vast majority (c. 90-95%) are type 2 diabetics – all will be explained below. The remainder are type 1 diabetics. A recent (the first ever) audit on patient deaths from diabetes notes that approximately 70-75,000 diabetic patients die [...]
Read more »England’s Obesity Strategy (not)
On Thursday 13 October, 2011, the Department of Health issued this press release, optimistically called “Government calls time on obesity.” The government has done anything but. We need to remember that the UK health service was devolved in 1999, with England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland managed separately from this point forth. Hence, this Department [...]
Read more »Keep in touch
My Books
Can't wait for the post? Full versions of all books are available as instant downloads.
Instant access now >> Click here for more info
Intermittent Fasting. Free Special Report. Get the facts behind the claims.
This is a free eBook for you to enjoy and to share freely with friends and colleagues.
20 Comments