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 [...]
Read more »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 »Saturated fat vs unsaturated fat
You’d be suprised; Olive oil has more saturated fat than a fatty pork chop. Download Real food vs Processed vs saturated fat Factsheet Tweet This Post Delicious Digg This Post Facebook MySpace
Read more »Eating saturated fat does not cause heart disease – Part 1
Here are a couple of videos that question the relationship between fat consumption and heart disease. These videos are a tribute to Dr Malcolm Kendrick (The Great Cholesterol Con – highly recommended) and Gary Taubes (The Diet Delusion – also highly recommended) and a number of other people I have come across this year (Anthony [...]
Read more »Eating saturated fat does not cause heart disease – Part 2
Eating Saturated fat does not cause heart disease – Part 2 Eating Fat Does Not Cause Heart Disease – Part 2 from Zoe Harcombe on Vimeo. Tweet This Post Delicious Digg This Post Facebook MySpace
Read more »Forget Cholesterol and statins – here’s how you really avoid heart disease
This is a great article by Jerome Burne. If you are interested in this area, I cannot recommend highly enough “The Great Cholesterol Con” by Dr Malcolm Kendrick – funny and extremely logical, it should be compulsory reading for every public health advisor and statin prescriber world-wide. Would it surprise you to know that it [...]
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