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 »The BDA attacks diets, but what about theirs?
The British Dietetic Association (BDA) did some self promotion last week – they had an article in the Daily Mail attacking some fad diets, which they said should be avoided in the New Year. Two were so ridiculous that they involved being on intravenous drips – not something that the average dieter could try, let [...]
Read more »Can Atkins diet raise heart attack risk for women?
So screamed the headlines on Wednesday 27th June 2012. This was the full article in the BMJ, which was behind the headlines. Another irresponsible article, more misleading headlines – both the article and headlines ignorant about nutrition and the composition of food. There seem to be one of these a day at the moment and [...]
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 »The Dukan Diet – What’s it all about?
The Dukan Diet, The Harcombe Diet, low carb diet, high protein diet, Carole Middleton Dukan, Atkins, weight loss, Jenni Murray Dukan
Read more »Weight Watchers ProPoints plan – what’s it all about?
Weight Watchers put out a press release “embargoed to 1st November 2010″. The press release that I saw had two pages – each page looked like it was designed to fold into a two sided postcard. One page was called “The SCIENCE behind the Weight Watchers ProPoints Plan” and the other was called “The Weight [...]
Read more »Weight Watchers works – according to a study funded by Weight Watchers
“One pound of fat contains 3,500 calories. To lose 1lb a week you would need to cut out 3,500 calories from your overall weekly nutritional requirements, this equates to needing a deficit of 500 calories a day.”[i] (Zoe Hellman, Weight Watchers dietician) This is the formula believed by Weight Watchers, NICE, the NHS, the Department [...]
Read more »Skinny Bitch & French Women don’t get fat
These blog posts got lost in the growing posts on this site! Lily1 posted (January 13, 2010 at 11:06 pm) Hi Zoe I am generally interested in nutrition and there were two books I have seen before that I wondered if you had ever come across and if so what your view was: 1. Skinny [...]
Read more »My Big Fat Diet Show – end result
I really have enjoyed this mini series of 4 programmes and will miss the women who have made it such fun. Anna Richardson has been brilliant throughout also. The last in the series aired on Thursday 14th January and the final weight loss was impressive: Bev lost 12lbs; Lissy lost 9lbs; Gail lost 8lbs; Pam [...]
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