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 »Weight Watchers New Year’s Day advert
Weight Watchers are running one of the longest adverts on British television, simultaneously on commercial channels, between 6.30pm and 7pm on January 1 2012. The advert was announced in the media so that coverage could start before the advert. The advert (three minutes and 10 seconds long) is fronted by Alesha Dixon who has never [...]
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 »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 »Weight Watchers works – according to a study funded by Weight Watchers
“One pound of fat contains 3,500 calories. To lose 1lb a week you would need to cut out 3,500 calories from your overall weekly nutritional requirements, this equates to needing a deficit of 500 calories a day.”[i] (Zoe Hellman, Weight Watchers dietician) This is the formula believed by Weight Watchers, NICE, the NHS, the Department [...]
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 »The calorie myth & eating 36,000 calories a day
Here’s the link to a great programme on super morbid obesity Great programme spot from one of our super fans – Melissa. This is worth the 47 mins to watch. I just wanted to draw your attention to yet another example of the calorie myth being completely absurdly applied… The programme features 4 morbidly obese [...]
Read more »The Minnesota Starvation Experiment
This is a blog about quite possibly the most important obesity experiment ever conducted. Please let me know if you come across a dietician who has ever heard of it, let alone studied it… America joined WWII in 1941 – by which time Europe was already experiencing rationing and food shortages. A couple of years [...]
Read more »The Calorie theory is everywhere, and wrong
I keep a pile of newspaper articles to blog when I get 5 minutes. I kept one from 28 September about a book written by Brian Wansink – something like “Why we eat more than we think.” Strategy number 1 (out of 8 ) in the book was “Just ten extra calories a day – [...]
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