England’s Obesity Strategy (not)
On Thursday 13 October, 2011, the Department of Health issued this press release, optimistically called “Government calls time on obesity.” The government has done anything but. We need to remember that the UK health service was devolved in 1999, with England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland managed separately from this point forth. Hence, this Department [...]
Read more »Exercise – personal experience – part 2
This blog has attracted a few comments – any suggestion that exercise is not going to make a person slim usually does! I also did a circular to some journalists recently and used a phrase that I have often used to make a point: “we can eat in one minute what can take an hour [...]
Read more »Calories, Energy Balance, Thermodynamics & Weight Loss
… “Things we’ve got wronger than a very wrong thing”! As the brilliant Dr Malcolm Kendrick would say – and Black-adder before him! Why do we say “eat less/do more”? Does it work? What do the laws of thermodynamics actually say? (because it isn’t “eat less/do more”) Why do we say “to lose 1lb of [...]
Read more »Post Christmas Rescue Diet!
OK – so you overindulged over Christmas and are now wondering what is the best way to get back to feeling refreshed, rather than bloated. Let’s just have a quick look at what happened. Worst case is that you could have been over indulging for some time and gained a few pounds and, more seriously, [...]
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 »Kellogg’s Special K Mini Breaks
I saw a full page advert in a Sunday supplement magazine yesterday for Special K Mini Breaks – Chocolate variety. Described as “Mmmmmmmmmm”; “crunch”; “delish”; “biscuit”‘; “chocolate”; “crispy”; “choccy”; “biscuity”‘; “crunch”; “moreish”; “99 calories a bag”; “crunchy, delicious, biscuity bites”. How to get every word possible to tempt a dieter to eat stuff that they [...]
Read more »Kellogg’s Coco Pops Advert
Bit of a long blog this, but hopefully worth it! 1) I subscribe to the Children’s Food Campaign newsletter and support their campaigns. The CFC got a great article in The Independent, which can be seen here. 2) This was an extract from the Children’s Food Campaign January newsletter: “Ever thought of avoiding Coco Pops [...]
Read more »My Big Fat Diet Show – end result
I really have enjoyed this mini series of 4 programmes and will miss the women who have made it such fun. Anna Richardson has been brilliant throughout also. The last in the series aired on Thursday 14th January and the final weight loss was impressive: Bev lost 12lbs; Lissy lost 9lbs; Gail lost 8lbs; Pam [...]
Read more »Fad diets accused of making the obesity epidemic worse
I caught this on radio media and in the national press on Monday 23/11/09. Professor Chris Hawkey, of the British Society of Gastroenterology was speaking at the “Gastro 2009″ conference in London. He claimed that promotion of unhealthy foods and diets has fostered over-eating and an obsession with eating only ‘good’ foods. He was set [...]
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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