Sugar: The Bitter Truth
Please spend 90 minutes of your life watching the video on Youtube called “Sugar: The Bitter Truth“. The speaker is Dr Robert H. Lustig. There are a couple of errors, but please don’t let them detract from the brilliance of this video. It is vitally important that we change our views on ‘a healthy diet’, [...]
Read more »The calorie myth & eating 36,000 calories a day
Here’s the link to a great programme on super morbid obesity Great programme spot from one of our super fans – Melissa. This is worth the 47 mins to watch. I just wanted to draw your attention to yet another example of the calorie myth being completely absurdly applied… The programme features 4 morbidly obese [...]
Read more »Generation XXL – Channel 4
This is a review of the episode featuring the younger children. We have Libby, Lucas and Kelsey aged 7 and Bethany aged 6. Anyone who watched the programme cannot help but be distressed at seeing children look like these youngsters. Under 10′s should be running round with dirt on their knees and runny noses – [...]
Read more »Weight gain between Thanksgiving & New Year
It is an often quoted ‘fact’ that Americans gain up to half a stone on average between Thanksgiving and New Year. Thanksgiving in America falls on the last Thursday in November, so it was on November 26th in 2009. Whilst not such a big even in Canada, Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving on the second Monday in [...]
Read more »Third of heart deaths blamed on overweight
In a 10 year study of 20,000 men and women aged 20 to 65, Dutch scientists have found that being overweight accounted for half of fatal heart disease cases. The people in the study were more overweight than the average, so they allowed for this in their prediction that this meant 1 in 3 fatalities [...]
Read more »Conflicts of interest? Chair of the National Obesity Forum
I attended a recent National Obesity Forum conference in Wales. LighterLife were one of the sponsors and had a stand for the delegates to visit during every break (500-600 calories a day in artificial liquid form is not my idea of a healthy diet). I picked up a leaflet on LighterLife and found this wonderful [...]
Read more »The Minnesota Starvation Experiment
This is a blog about quite possibly the most important obesity experiment ever conducted. Please let me know if you come across a dietician who has ever heard of it, let alone studied it… America joined WWII in 1941 – by which time Europe was already experiencing rationing and food shortages. A couple of years [...]
Read more »The Calorie theory is everywhere, and wrong
I keep a pile of newspaper articles to blog when I get 5 minutes. I kept one from 28 September about a book written by Brian Wansink – something like “Why we eat more than we think.” Strategy number 1 (out of 8 ) in the book was “Just ten extra calories a day – [...]
Read more »Obesity & Surgery
The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines are that anyone with a BMI over 40 (or a BMI over 35 with co-morbidities) could be a consideration for bariatric surgery. Bariatric surgery is the collective term for anything from gastric bands to stomach stapling or bypass operations. All of these types of surgery are, putting [...]
Read more »Childhood Obesity “Levelling off”
This was on lots of news channels – I caught Tam Fry (National Obesity Forum) talking about it on BBC Breakfast and then someone (didn’t catch his name) on Radio 4′s Today Programme. There were press articles all over the place – most very misleading. The “Independent” headline was “Childhood Obesity ‘has peaked’ “, and [...]
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