Inactivity killing as many as smoking (really?!)

Written by on July 23, 2012 - 6 Comments
Categories: Exercise, Research

We woke up on July 18th 2012 to the news “Inactivity ‘killing as many as smoking‘”. The headlines were from an article in The Lancet. It is free to view the article, but you need to register an email and password with The Lancet to be able to see the article. It has taken a [...]

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Can Atkins diet raise heart attack risk for women?

Written by on June 28, 2012 - 17 Comments
Categories: Media comments, Other Diets, Research

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 [...]

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Why trying to ‘burn off’ food is a waste of time

Written by on December 31, 2011 - 14 Comments
Categories: Exercise, Obesity

On 30 Dec I tweeted: “All these people ‘walking off’ indulgence make me laugh – I’d have to walk to Bristol & back (54 miles) to counter a Duchy Xmas pudding!” “Oh & that doesn’t deduct the BMR calories I would have used anyway so make that to Bath and back!” Here’s the maths! One [...]

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