Australian Dietary Guidelines (Feb 2013)
New Australian Dietary Guidelines were published on February 18th 2013. Hundreds of pages of information are available here. The main “Eat for health: Australian Dietary Guidelines” document alone is 226 pages. The latest guidelines acknowledge the extent of the problem: “If current trends continue in Australia, it is estimated that by 2025, 83% of men [...]
Read more »Traffic Light Labelling – how does it work?
UK food retailers have apparently bowed to pressure and are on the verge of introducing the traffic lights food labelling system, which a number of campaigners have been demanding for a few years. With Sainsbury’s long on board and Aldi, Tesco and Lidl having been announced as recent joiners, Morrisons and Iceland are the retailers [...]
Read more »The men who made us fat – Episode 2
Here we go again! Episode 2 with Jacques Peretti. 24 million of us are now overweight “Our appetites supersized by big business.” This one is all about portion size. Jacques Peretti goes to Jester’s Diner in Great Yarmouth to find Britain’s biggest breakfast. The owner, Martin Smith, offers Peretti a choice of “The Big Boy” [...]
Read more »The men who made us fat
I’ve just finished watching this terrific programme on BBC2 (Thursday 14th June 2012). It will be on iplayer for just a week from now here. Full marks to the presenter, Jacques Peretti for getting together such greats as Robert Lustig, Gary Taubes, David Kessler, Philip James and for honouring John Yudkin posthumously. The programme opened [...]
Read more »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
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 [...]
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