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The Minnesota Starvation Experiment

This is a blog about quite possibly the most important obesity experiment ever conducted. Please let me know if you come across a dietician who has ever heard of it, let alone studied it… America joined WWII in 1941 – by which time Europe was already experiencing rationing and food shortages. A couple of years [...]

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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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Tania Bryer – What I ate this week – Daily Mail

Just like Nancy below, Tania has also proved the calorie theory to be wrong. Tania’s total adds up to a higher 12,404 (what were the 4 cals I wonder?!) Assuming that Tania also needs 14,000 calories per week, she has a deficit of 1,596 calories each week, so she should be losing (1,596*52/3500) = 23.71lbs [...]

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Nancy Sorrell – What I ate this week – Daily Mail

I love these celeb interviews on what they eat during a typical week mainly because they enable us to blow apart the calorie theory. (This is the statement: To lose 1lb of fat you need to create a deficit of 3,500 calories). Working on the basis that an average woman needs 2,000 calories a day [...]

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