Author, obesity researcher .

My Big Fat Diet Show

I’ve just watched the first episode of this programme and never has my book title “Stop Counting Calories & Start Losing Weight” seemed more appropriate. First of all – don’t you just love Anna Richardson?! She is one of my fave presenters – so natural, so approachable, so ‘one of us’ and good on her [...]

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Fad diets accused of making the obesity epidemic worse

I caught this on radio media and in the national press on Monday 23/11/09. Professor Chris Hawkey, of the British Society of Gastroenterology was speaking at the “Gastro 2009″ conference in London. He claimed that promotion of unhealthy foods and diets has fostered over-eating and an obsession with eating only ‘good’ foods. He was set [...]

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The alternate day diet

In July 2009, I was asked by Bella magazine to comment on 3 ‘fad/mad’ diets – are they really mad, or are any of them OK? The 3 diets were: 1) the Hollywood cookie diet- eat 4 calorie counted, expensive, cookies a day and not much else; 2) the ‘caveman’ diet – eat meat, fish, [...]

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Lighter Life Ingredients – the sequel

I went to the Wales National Obesity Forum conference yesterday and there were promotion stands around the hall – Lighter Life were there, Rosemary Conley was there, drug companies were there. But at least Coca Cola weren’t! (However the Chief Medical Officer for Wales couldn’t get a drink of water – the fridge was full [...]

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Mediterranean diet cuts the risk of depression by 30%

This article is so useful – because hopefully most people read this and saw it for the stupid madness that it is and my hope is that the same people start questioning all the other mad claims attached to the Mediterranean diet…. “Eating a Mediterranean diet could cut your risk of depression by 30%, according [...]

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5’2” and 14st, the woman who’s made millions from an extreme diet blamed this week for the death of a British bride-to-be

This is totally worth going on the Daily Mail web site for – search on the article title and/or date and a double page article should appear. It will be worth it for the picture of Ms Lighter Life, Jackie Cox, herself -  the woman is as wide as she is tall and this is [...]

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Bride-to-be dies after losing 3 stone on her crash diet

This article is tragic – all about Samantha Clowe, only 34, who suffered heart failure 11 weeks after starting LighterLife. She lost 3 stone in that time and then her life. My heart goes out to her family and her fiancé Andrew Smith, who found her collapsed at their home in Leeds. The coroner’s inquest [...]

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