American dietitians, big ‘food’ companies & conflict of interest
I obviously follow like minded people on twitter because one item has dominated my timeline over the past 24 hours. Michele Simon, author of the brilliant book Appetite for Profit, has written a report called “And now a word from our sponsors. Are America’s nutritional professionals in the pocket of Big Food?” I have no [...]
Read more »Coca-Cola, Obesity and Conflict
Coca-Cola launched an advert about obesity. You can see the advert here as part of a short clip on ABC news. The ABC news item had an interesting factoid in it: “Sugary sodas are the number one source of calories in the American diet.” The Coca-cola advert has a female voice over – that kind [...]
Read more »Conflicted nutritionists defend bread
“Not a grain of truth: Bread has been ‘demonised by TV nutritionists and is a vital part of our daily diet‘” screamed the Daily Mail headline on Friday 14th September. I was pretty disgusted by this on a number of levels: 1) Conflict of interest The article talked about nutrition scientists and then went on [...]
Read more »The men who made us fat – Episode 3
The final episode (aired 12th July 2012) looked at so called ‘healthy food’ and how this is marketed to people to convince them that it is OK to eat. Jacques Peretti starts the programme with a visit to a company called Kantar – they track the buying behaviour of 30,000 households nationwide. They sell this [...]
Read more »Diabetes UK & Low Carb Diets – what is the official advice for diabetics?
Introduction The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimated that there were 171 million diabetes sufferers worldwide before the end of the last century. The (WHO) estimates that this will rise to 366 million by 2030. To use another data source to fill in some blanks and to get a longer timescale picture, another 2006 article estimates that [...]
Read more »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 »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 »Who’s teaching our children about ‘nutrition’?
I came across a school book for GCSE in Home Economics: Food & Nutrition recently. As someone who has studied nutrition extensively – and found virtually everything being taught to be wrong – I was naturally curious. Kellogg’s & Coco-pops I picked up the main textbook “Examining Food & Nutrition” by Jenny Ridgwell (1996). The [...]
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 »“Surgery is better than dieting, says conflicted doctor”
“Surgery is better than dieting, says top doctor”. Zoe Harcombe highlights the conflict of interest in this Sunday Times story.
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