Author, obesity researcher .

Exercise – personal experience

Hi all – I’ve just got back from a week’s skiing in Italy, so here’s a blog on my experience of doing more activity than normal. Andy and I normally share 3 dog walks a day. We always do the morning half hour together and Andy generally does the night walk and then whoever is [...]

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Kellogg’s Coco Pops Advert

Bit of a long blog this, but hopefully worth it! 1)  I subscribe to the Children’s Food Campaign newsletter and support their campaigns. The CFC got a great article in The Independent, which can be seen here. 2) This was an extract from the Children’s Food Campaign January newsletter: “Ever thought of avoiding Coco Pops [...]

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BBC Radio Wales Interview

Click this link to listen to Radio Wales Interview Thank you Jamie & Louise for having me on your fab show this morning. Jamie & Louise are on week day mornings from 9am-noon and they play brilliant tracks and have guests on to chat about everything under the sun. On before me were Lesley Garrett; [...]

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Childhood Obesity “Levelling off” – 3.11.09

This was on lots of news channels – I caught Tam Fry (National Obesity Forum) talking about it on BBC Breakfast and then someone (didn’t catch his name) on Radio 4′s Today Programme. There were press articles all over the place – most very misleading. The “Independent” headline was “Childhood Obesity ‘has peaked’ “, and [...]

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The very small world of the world’s heaviest man – Daily Mail 21.10.2009

This story was all over the national press on the same date. Paul Mason is 70 stone and has been confined to bed for the past few years. He apparently eats a staggering 20,000 calories a day. There is only one question that springs to mind whenever I read stories about people who are in [...]

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NHS Slimming operations have doubled in one year – 10.10.2009

Official figures show that there were 4,619 bariatric surgery operations in England in 2008 – a 51% increase on the previous year. The official NICE (National Institute of Clinical Excellence) guidelines state that anyone with a BMI of 40 or higher qualifies for ‘bariatric’ surgery. That’s 1.2 million people in the UK who already qualify [...]

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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 – Daily Mail 12.09.09

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 – Daily Mail 09.09.09

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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School’s out and we’re off to FAT CAMP – Daily Mail 18.07.09

I wanted to cry at the end of this article. It is all about obese teenagers who are spending this summer at fat camps in the UK (such camps have been around in the US for years). The reason I wanted to cry is because the advice that they are being given in the camp [...]

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Obese mothers ‘at ten times the risk of having obese daughters’ – TV,Radio,newspapers 14.07.09

This story was widely reported everywhere on Tuesday – I woke up to see the story on BBC Breakfast news. The study was conducted in Plymouth and the findings were published in the International Journal of obesity. 226 families were studied, which some other researchers have cautioned is a small number. The key conclusions were: [...]

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