Weight Watchers New Year’s Day advert
Weight Watchers are running one of the longest adverts on British television, simultaneously on commercial channels, between 6.30pm and 7pm on January 1 2012. The advert was announced in the media so that coverage could start before the advert. The advert (three minutes and 10 seconds long) is fronted by Alesha Dixon who has never [...]
Read more »24,000 diabetes deaths a year ‘could be avoided’
This news story broke on 14 December 2011. There are 2.3 million diabetics in the UK. The vast majority (c. 90-95%) are type 2 diabetics – all will be explained below. The remainder are type 1 diabetics. A recent (the first ever) audit on patient deaths from diabetes notes that approximately 70-75,000 diabetic patients die [...]
Read more »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 [...]
Read more »Denmark Fat Tax
In March 2003, Denmark became the first country in the world to introduce laws to severely restrict consumption of trans fats. This has been reported as a ban on trans fats, but the law is on ingredients rather than final products and the limit was placed at 2% of fats and oils to be used [...]
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 Tweet This Post Delicious Digg This Post Facebook MySpace
Read more »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 [...]
Read more »MyPlate – the new American USDA food pyramid
The new American Food Plate was launched on Thursday 2nd June 2011. Here it is – or you can see the original on the USDA web site. Let’s start with the positive: 1) It’s much easier to understand that the current American Food Pyramid (2005): This was so complicated (and seemingly needed to be individually [...]
Read more »The Weston A Price Foundation Conference
The second London Weston A Price Foundation conference was held on Saturday 26th March 2011. We are waiting for the presentation to be put on line in full by the conference organisers – we’ll post it here as soon as it is. In the meantime – the slides can be found on this site. Here’s [...]
Read more »Five-a-day – is it enough?!
Five-a-day – is it enough?! Zoe Harcombe comments on an article in The Independent about 5-a-day and heart disease, cancer and bad science.
Read more »UK Women are the “World’s Worst Dieters”
This story was in the Daily Mail December 22 2010. The headline says “World’s Worst Dieters” but the article is only talking about women, so we need to be fair to men here. SPA Future Thinking, a market research firm did a “Question of Taste” survey. They surveyed 1,534 women around the world in the [...]
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