UK Women are the “World’s Worst Dieters”
This story was in the Daily Mail December 22 2010. The headline says “World’s Worst Dieters” but the article is only talking about women, so we need to be fair to men here. SPA Future Thinking, a market research firm did a “Question of Taste” survey. They surveyed 1,534 women around the world in the [...]
Read more »Diet Pills – Part 2 – Carb blockers
I’m going to do a series of short blogs on different diet pills and what they claim to do. They fall into different categories: 1) Fat binders/blockers; 2) Carb blockers; 3) Metabolism boosters; 4) Appetite suppressants; 5) Those that claim to do most of the above and then some! This second blog is on the [...]
Read more »Skinny Bitch & French Women don’t get fat
These blog posts got lost in the growing posts on this site! Lily1 posted (January 13, 2010 at 11:06 pm) Hi Zoe I am generally interested in nutrition and there were two books I have seen before that I wondered if you had ever come across and if so what your view was: 1. Skinny [...]
Read more »Low Calorie/Low Fat Diets
Low calorie diets are essentially low fat diets. They work on the basis that fat has approximately 9 calories per gram and carbs have approximately 4 and, therefore, if you cut out fat from your diet (or reduce it dramatically) you are automatically reducing your calorie intake. We then have the same problems that we [...]
Read more »Mince Pies – what’s in them?
I stuck a box of Tesco (Finest) (Mini) Mince Pies in the trolley this week and here is what is in them: Mincemeat (40%), wheat flour, butter (15%), sugar, whey powder, salt, raising agents (sodium phosphate, sodium carbonate).The mincemeat contains: sultanas, sugar, apple, glucose syrup, currants, orange peel, sunflower oil, COURVOISIER VS Cognac (contains colour [...]
Read more »Fit & Spry, the new Mr Fry
Well done Stephen Fry! He was looking fab recently in pictures in the press. Apparently the 52 year old actor has lost 6 stone. He has gone from c. 21 stone (he is 6 ft 5 in) to nearer 15 stones. When asked how he did it, he said he cut out bread, potatoes, sugar [...]
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