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Why hasn’t my healthy diet cut my cholesterol?

Tuesday’s Daily Mail has a section called “Good Health” and the resident GP answering questions is Dr Martin Scurr. On Tuesday 26th June 2012, Susan Bence emailed in to say: “Twelve months ago, I had a cholesterol test that indicated a higher than acceptable cholesterol level of 5.5. I took immediate action, lost one-and-a-half stone [...]

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Better vitamin maths this week!

How to get vitamin B6

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More bad (vitamin) maths

Looks like I’ll be able to do a weekly blog on this idiotic regular snippet in the Daily Mail Good Health. Last week it was how (not) to get vitamin B12, this week is it how (not) to get magnesium – which is a mineral for starters – not even a vitamin! I did notice [...]

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

“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

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

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.

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

This was a really interesting article in the Daily Mail 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 [...]

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A weight off my mind

This was an article written by Claudia Connell in the Daily Mail 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 [...]

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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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