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The 2 day diet

The Michael Mosley August 2012 Horizon programme started a significant interest in intermittent fasting. As my special report (free) explains here, the programme looked at a number of different restricted eating options (eating less all the time, fasting for 4 days, alternate day fasting). The option that Mosley found the most tolerable was eating ‘normally’ [...]

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How calorie counting makes you fat

On Feb 16 2012, there was a new item in the Daily Mail Femail section. They often do these little ‘stocking fillers’. Let’s hope that this one goes as quickly as it came because it is not going to help with the obesity epidemic. It is, however, a great illustration of one of the many [...]

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Men’s Health and Eat this, Not that – bad science at its worst!

“Swap cheddar for edam and Snickers for Flakes and you could lose two stone in a year” screamed the Daily Mail article headline on 11 January 2012. The claim comes from a study “by the team behind Men’s Health magazine”. As you will be able to see from the link, the article lists 21 items [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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