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 [...]
Read more »The very small world of the world’s heaviest man
This story was all over the national press on the same date. Paul Mason is 70 stone and has been confined to bed for the past few years. He apparently eats a staggering 20,000 calories a day. There is only one question that springs to mind whenever I read stories about people who are in [...]
Read more »Surgery left these sisters 22st lighter
Three sisters decided to have Bariatric surgery (this is the name for any operation involving stomach stapling or gastric bands or gastric bypasses etc) all on the same day in February 2009: Georgina started at 20 stone 7lbs and a BMI of 50.9; Sharon started at 21 stone 9lbs and a BMI of 50.4; Pauline [...]
Read more »Obese mothers ‘at ten times the risk of having obese daughters’
This story was widely reported everywhere on Tuesday – I woke up to see the story on BBC Breakfast news. The study was conducted in Plymouth and the findings were published in the International Journal of obesity. 226 families were studied, which some other researchers have cautioned is a small number. The key conclusions were: [...]
Read more »Letting fat children eat junk food is child abuse
This was a brilliant lead column by Amanda Platell in the Daily Mail in response to the Jamie Oliver initiative on school meals (see the blog “Jamie’s school meal revolution shunned by 400,000 pupils”). In great Amanda style – say it how it is – Amanda argues that Jamie’s plan required the support of all [...]
Read more »Jamie’s school meal revolution shunned by 400,000 pupils
When you look at this Daily Mail article, alongside the blog about obese mothers and fathers being 10 and 6 times more likely, respectively, to have obese daughters and sons, this article makes you want to scream! Ministers set aside £500m to help with this project – quite rightly – as the evidence that an [...]
Read more »Where one child in six is obese before they start school
This was a shocking article in the Daily Mail, by David Derbyshire, about childhood obesity. Overall, 1 child in 10 is obese by the age of 5, while 1 in 5 is obese when they start secondary school. The regional differences are even more striking: In Stockton-on-Tees, Durham, 1 in 6 is obese when they [...]
Read more »Keep-fit boom fails to stem obesity
A verbatim extract from the article: The boom in the fitness industry has done little to curb the obesity epidemic, according to leading academic researchers. A University of Leicester study has shown that while gyms and private health clubs have grown in popularity in recent years, the nation’s weight has grown too. The researchers argued [...]
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