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Food Intolerance is all in the mind, says study sponsored by Flour Advisory Board!

Written by Zoë on January 22, 2010 - 1 Comment
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“Nine in ten Britons who believe they have a food allergy are perfectly healthy, researchers say“. Harcombe Diet followers will immediately spot the error – either in this write up from the Daily Mail Science reporter (Fiona MacRae) or from the press release itself. Food allergy and Food Intolerance are seriously different – potentially fatally. [...]

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Nutritionist reviews ready meals – 31.10.09

Written by Zoë on October 31, 2009 - 0 Comments
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This was quite an interesting article on ready meals. A mum and a 10 year old girl gave their views on a selection of ready meals – from Sainsbury’s, Morrison’s, Tesco, Co-op, M&S and Waitrose. The girl was really funny – her verdict on the Sainsbury’s “Tropical Pork & Peppers” was “it looked like the [...]

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Dying to lose a stone – Daily Mail 31.8.09

Written by Zoë on August 31, 2009 - 0 Comments
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This was a really well researched article by Lorraine Fisher on everything from diet pills to liposuction – trying to answer the question – why do bright, successful women risk their lives to drop a dress size? Tragically we all know the answer – we want to be slim more than we want anything else [...]

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We’ll pay you to lose weight.

Written by Zoë on July 18, 2009 - 0 Comments
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Daily Mail. November 11, 2008: “We’ll pay the obese to take a walk.” News of the World. April 12, 2009: “Lards of Money: NHS paying fatties £425 to lose weight.” Daily Mail. July 3, 2009: “Lose weight and we’ll give you £1 for every pound.” (Don’t you just love the NOTW headline!) This story just [...]

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The junk food divide – Daily Mail 10.07.09

Written by Zoë on July 10, 2009 - 0 Comments
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This is a really interesting article on the North-South divide, when it comes to shopping baskets. mysupermarket.co.uk have surveyed 250,000 grocery orders to see what is going in the shopping baskets in different parts of the UK. They found the following: – Shoppers in the North East spend 22% less on fruit & veg than [...]

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A weight off my mind – Daily Mail 02.07.09

Written by Zoë on July 2, 2009 - 0 Comments
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This was an article written by Claudia Connell and, to be fair, she did have the sub heading “It’s the weirdest weight-loss idea ever – a hypnotist makes you think you’ve had gastric band surgery and will never need to eat so much again.” My hubby took one look at the article and said “But [...]

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Nancy Sorrell – What I ate this week – Daily Mail 25.06.09

Written by Zoë on June 25, 2009 - 0 Comments
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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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