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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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Kellogg’s Special K Mini Breaks

I saw a full page advert in a Sunday supplement magazine yesterday for Special K Mini Breaks – Chocolate variety. Described as “Mmmmmmmmmm”; “crunch”; “delish”; “biscuit”‘; “chocolate”; “crispy”; “choccy”; “biscuity”‘; “crunch”; “moreish”; “99 calories a bag”; “crunchy, delicious, biscuity bites”. How to get every word possible to tempt a dieter to eat stuff that they [...]

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NOTW Problem page: How to put on weight

I noticed this little gem, flicking through the News of the World last weekend. On the problem page, a guy had written in to say “I’m sick of obese people getting all the sympathy – what about the underweight”. He explained “I’m a 19 year old man and although I’m nearly 6ft tall, I weigh [...]

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