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Conflicts of interest? Chair of the National Obesity Forum

I attended a recent National Obesity Forum conference in Wales.  LighterLife were one of the sponsors and had a stand for the delegates to visit during every break (500-600 calories a day in artificial liquid form is not my idea of a healthy diet). I picked up a leaflet on LighterLife and found this wonderful [...]

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Lighter Life Ingredients – the sequel

I went to the Wales National Obesity Forum conference yesterday and there were promotion stands around the hall – Lighter Life were there, Rosemary Conley was there, drug companies were there. But at least Coca Cola weren’t! (However the Chief Medical Officer for Wales couldn’t get a drink of water – the fridge was full [...]

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Lighter Life Ingredients

Had a very interesting exchange with a club member on Lighter Life! Thought you may be interested… Member:  I was wondering whether you would have time to answer a question for me…  Upon looking at the ingredients (in Lighter Life),  I wondered if there might be stuff in them that don’t try and cure my [...]

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5’2” and 14st, the woman who’s made millions from an extreme diet blamed this week for the death of a British bride-to-be

This is totally worth going on the Daily Mail web site for – search on the article title and/or date and a double page article should appear. It will be worth it for the picture of Ms Lighter Life, Jackie Cox, herself -  the woman is as wide as she is tall and this is [...]

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Bride-to-be dies after losing 3 stone on her crash diet

This article is tragic – all about Samantha Clowe, only 34, who suffered heart failure 11 weeks after starting LighterLife. She lost 3 stone in that time and then her life. My heart goes out to her family and her fiancé Andrew Smith, who found her collapsed at their home in Leeds. The coroner’s inquest [...]

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