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40 years of diets and we’re fatter than ever

Sally Ann Voak is the author of 28 diet books and this article is, therefore, billed as a ’startling confession’. It is quite cynical, from someone who has made ’slimming’ her profession since 1971. It concludes: “The problem is that the diet industry doesn’t really want women to be slim, because if we were all [...]

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Why calorie counting makes you fat

I got very excited when I saw this headline. At last, I thought, someone else has realised that calorie counting is the cause of the obesity epidemic and not the cure. But no, the article was about a new report by Dr Geoffrey Livesey, one of a “growing band of scientists” who think we have [...]

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Tania Bryer – What I ate this week – Daily Mail

Just like Nancy below, Tania has also proved the calorie theory to be wrong. Tania’s total adds up to a higher 12,404 (what were the 4 cals I wonder?!) Assuming that Tania also needs 14,000 calories per week, she has a deficit of 1,596 calories each week, so she should be losing (1,596*52/3500) = 23.71lbs [...]

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Nancy Sorrell – What I ate this week – Daily Mail

I love these celeb interviews on what they eat during a typical week mainly because they enable us to blow apart the calorie theory. (This is the statement: To lose 1lb of fat you need to create a deficit of 3,500 calories). Working on the basis that an average woman needs 2,000 calories a day [...]

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