Make Friends With Fats
Here is the full presentation that I did at The Abergavenny Food Festival on Saturday, 17th September. And you can download the presentation slides here Tweet This Post Delicious Digg This Post Facebook MySpace
Read more »Olive Oil can Tap Dance!
Time to set the record straight on olive oil, or it won’t be long before we see the title of this thread as the next Daily Mail article! Here is the Daily Mail article from 19 April 2010. Olive oil can now apparently switch off genes and previous articles have told us that olive oil [...]
Read more »Diet Pills – Part 1 – fat binders/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 first blog is on the [...]
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 »Should a diet advisor be slim?
When Atkins slipped on the ice and fell, there were more media comments about allegations that he was very overweight at the time of his death than there were about the tragedy of slipping on a NY pavement. I regularly attend obesity conferences and you may be interested to know that the size of people [...]
Read more »The real reason you’re fat
The Daily Mail health section on Tuesdays is a good read. It covers everything from unusual conditions to new views on common conditions. It has first person stories and celebs ‘coming out’ with their condition. Big articles, small snippets etc – it really is a well put together section. I have been enjoying a small [...]
Read more »Saturated fat vs unsaturated fat
You’d be suprised; Olive oil has more saturated fat than a fatty pork chop. Download Real food vs Processed vs saturated fat Factsheet Tweet This Post Delicious Digg This Post Facebook MySpace
Read more »Eating saturated fat does not cause heart disease – Part 1
Here are a couple of videos that question the relationship between fat consumption and heart disease. These videos are a tribute to Dr Malcolm Kendrick (The Great Cholesterol Con – highly recommended) and Gary Taubes (The Diet Delusion – also highly recommended) and a number of other people I have come across this year (Anthony [...]
Read more »Eating saturated fat does not cause heart disease – Part 2
Eating Saturated fat does not cause heart disease – Part 2 Eating Fat Does Not Cause Heart Disease – Part 2 from Zoe Harcombe on Vimeo. Tweet This Post Delicious Digg This Post Facebook MySpace
Read more »Forget Cholesterol and statins – here’s how you really avoid heart disease
This is a great article by Jerome Burne. If you are interested in this area, I cannot recommend highly enough “The Great Cholesterol Con” by Dr Malcolm Kendrick – funny and extremely logical, it should be compulsory reading for every public health advisor and statin prescriber world-wide. Would it surprise you to know that it [...]
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