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 [...]
Read more »Side-effect alert for all statin users
At last, new health warnings are to be issued about statins. Can you believe that more than 6m adults in the UK (that’s over 12% of our adult population) are on these very lucrative drugs? (Lipitor alone has brought in $12.9 billion for Pfizer – and still counting!) Twenty years ago, GP’s would only get [...]
Read more »Tomatoes are a dieter’s dream
There was a quite ridiculous story in the UK press. The article starts off talking about tomatoes being a possible wonderfood – supposedly leaving us satisfied and suppressing “one of the slimmer’s biggest pitfalls – the urge to snack.” You know you are in for a daft story when the article says that the findings [...]
Read more »Childhood Obesity “Levelling off”
This was on lots of news channels – I caught Tam Fry (National Obesity Forum) talking about it on BBC Breakfast and then someone (didn’t catch his name) on Radio 4′s Today Programme. There were press articles all over the place – most very misleading. The “Independent” headline was “Childhood Obesity ‘has peaked’ “, and [...]
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 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 »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 [...]
Read more »How a hamburger on Friday can make you hungry on Monday
Another completely inaccurate article where scientists have shown, yet again, that they don’t know the difference between their macro nutrients (this is the collective term for carbs, fats and protein). Researchers at the University of Texas claim to have shown that saturated fats trick the body into switching off the system that tells us how [...]
Read more »Junk food dummies
This article had me shaking my head in disbelief. When are we going to change our thinking about fats and carbs?! Some scientists at Oxford University have fed a junk food diet to rats and they concluded that in just 9 days, a high fat diet damaged the rats’ short term memory, made them significantly [...]
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