What motivates people?
I still exchange Christmas cards with the best boss I ever had and he always includes a chatty letter with
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Children ordering takeaways to school
On Thursday 23rd June 2016, some newspapers reported that “one in four children have ordered a takeaway to be delivered
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Sugar the evidence
Just as this page documents recent academic articles questioning current dietary advice, so this page documents recent academic articles about
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Britain’s fattest man & anorexia
Carl Thompson died on Sunday 21st June 2015. He had the unfortunate distinction of being known as “Britain’s fattest man”.
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Georgia Davis May 2015 update
I was wondering recently how Georgia Davis was doing, as she hadn’t popped up in The Sun for a while
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How did The Harcombe Diet® come about?
We have a book launch with Hodder & Stoughton this Thursday 9th May (2013). The Harcombe Diet 3-Step Plan is
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Britain’s fattest teenager fights for her life
One of the weekly notes from May 2012 was called “Britain’s fattest teenager & worst mother?” It was about the
Read moreSugar – how quickly can we get hooked?
I had an interesting experience over the festive season: I helped someone with an employment law case (I used to
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Exercise can be as addictive as heroin
This was a very brief article about a report from neuroscientists at Boston University. The researchers found that exercise ‘junkies’
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