Men’s Health and Eat this, Not that – bad science at its worst!
“Swap cheddar for edam and Snickers for Flakes and you could lose two stone in a year” screamed the Daily Mail article headline on 11 January 2012. The claim comes from a study “by the team behind Men’s Health magazine”. As you will be able to see from the link, the article lists 21 items [...]
Read more »“Divorce rate for over-60s surges”
So screamed the Daily Mail headline on 19 November 2011. “Britain is seeing a boom in ‘silver separations’”, read the first line. I wonder if they do with other headlines what they do with drug and disease headlines? The article soon gave some numbers – 11,500 over-60s were granted a divorce in 2009. It takes [...]
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 »Make Friends With Fats
Here is the full presentation that I did at The Abergavenny Food Festival on Saturday, 17th September. And 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 »Red meat & cancer & very bad journalism
I am struggling to think of a diet & health story, which has been reported worse than the one dominating the press this week – and there tends to be at least one in the press every day. The newspapers seem to think that “artery-clogging” is an adjective to precede either, or both, of the [...]
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 »How a nutritionist thinks we should get B12
Do you think a creme egg and some processed fish fingers are good ways to get a crucial vitamin?
Read more »Olive Oil can Tap Dance!
Time to set the record straight on olive oil, or it won’t be long before we see the title of this thread as the next Daily Mail article! Here is the Daily Mail article from 19 April 2010. Olive oil can now apparently switch off genes and previous articles have told us that olive oil [...]
Read more »Ban butter to save lives says heart surgeon
Shyam Kolvekar (a heart surgeon) is all over the news today having asserted that Butter should be banned to save thousands of lives. The Daily Mail asserted “Saturated fat is blamed for a third of the 200,000 premature deaths from heart disease a year.” Facts please, Daily Mail?! There is not even a consistent association [...]
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