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 »Eggs & Prostate Cancer
Yet another story came out over the past few days trying to demonise a real food. The Daily Mail ran the story “Eating just THREE eggs a week ‘increases chance of men getting prostate cancer’” I have the following points to make: 1) Association vs causation: This study makes the usual and unforgiveable mistake of [...]
Read more »Nutrition – where will a student be taught the truth?
I’ve had so many queries from people about studying nutrition that this blog is probably long overdue. Nutrition is a fascinating topic. There is little more important to human health than what and how we eat. Modern epidemics of obesity and ill health are capturing media headlines and the attention of curious minds alike. This [...]
Read more »10 Diet Myths – GKR Karate UK Conference Presentation
Zoe talks about “10 things we’ve got wronger than a very wrong thing” in the world of obesity and weight loss. Introduction by Kancho Robert Sullivan, Founder, GKR Karate http://www.gkrkarate.com/. Also available as a podcast You can download the presentation slides HERE. Tweet This Post Delicious Digg This Post Facebook MySpace
Read more »Red meat & diabetes?
There is an article widely reported in the media today (11 August 2011). The original research was published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. You can see the abstract for free and the article then costs $12. I bought the article, so that I can comment on the full picture and not the abstract [...]
Read more »The Vegetarian Myth – Lierre Keith
This could well be the most controversial blog post yet – where do each of us draw the line on eating and/or wearing animals and/or their products. Or, as Lierre Keith suggests, should we be drawing a circle and not a line? This is a review of The Vegetarian Myth and the Amazon reviews confirm [...]
Read more »Calories, Energy Balance, Thermodynamics & Weight Loss
… “Things we’ve got wronger than a very wrong thing”! As the brilliant Dr Malcolm Kendrick would say – and Black-adder before him! Why do we say “eat less/do more”? Does it work? What do the laws of thermodynamics actually say? (because it isn’t “eat less/do more”) Why do we say “to lose 1lb of [...]
Read more »The Weston A Price Foundation Conference
The second London Weston A Price Foundation conference was held on Saturday 26th March 2011. We are waiting for the presentation to be put on line in full by the conference organisers – we’ll post it here as soon as it is. In the meantime – the slides can be found on this site. Here’s [...]
Read more »Overweight – What kids say – by Robert Pretlow
As someone working exclusively in the field of obesity, I was approached by Dr Pretlow to ask if I would review his book “Overweight – What kids say“. I was delighted to be asked. (Dr Pretlow’s main site is here). The book is based on comments made by overweight kids and teenagers on two identical [...]
Read more »Cholesterol & heart disease – there is a relationship, but it’s not what you think
I do a fortnightly newsletter called “Diet & Health Today” in our on line support club. The club is there to help people to lose weight by eating food – real food! Apparently that makes us radical and controversial. The main article in Diet & Health Today is called “The Big Issues” and we have [...]
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