The White Paper on Public Health (Andrew Lansley)
The long awaited White Paper on public health has been published (30/11/2010). As someone working exclusively in the field of obesity, I had expected the paper to address the single biggest avoidable health crisis in the UK – obesity. The word obesity appears a dozen times in the 98 page document, but only to describe [...]
Read more »One in ten adults dangerously obese…
We are only obese because we are following the current diet advice. Zoe Harcombe explains…
Read more »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 [...]
Read more »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 [...]
Read more »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; [...]
Read more »Childhood Obesity “Levelling off”
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 [...]
Read more »The very small world of the world’s heaviest man
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 [...]
Read more »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 [...]
Read more »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 [...]
Read more »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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