Comments on: Pulling My Hair Out http://holfordwatch.info/2007/04/26/pulling-my-hair-out/ The truth about Patrick Holford, media nutritionist Fri, 14 Oct 2011 15:11:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: A Tale of Two WorkForces in the Same Workplace: Different Rules for Dietitians and Nutritionists in the NHS? « Holford Watch: Patrick Holford, nutritionism and bad science http://holfordwatch.info/2007/04/26/pulling-my-hair-out/comment-page-1/#comment-20839 Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:37:48 +0000 http://holfordwatch.wordpress.com/2007/04/26/pulling-my-hair-out/#comment-20839 [...] be able to ‘treat’ someone on the basis of the outcome of such a test? What about hair mineral analysis or health dowsing/kinesiology to diagnose nutritional [...]

]]> By: Patrick Holford Promotes Error: Does This Explain His Continuing Support for Opposing MMR and Supporting Andrew Wakefield’s Research? « Holford Watch: Patrick Holford, nutritionism and bad science http://holfordwatch.info/2007/04/26/pulling-my-hair-out/comment-page-1/#comment-15160 Sun, 22 Feb 2009 19:59:04 +0000 http://holfordwatch.wordpress.com/2007/04/26/pulling-my-hair-out/#comment-15160 [...] relies upon unevidenced laboratory tests to establish food ‘allergies’ and to establish heavy metal toxicity. Special Master Vowell details some of these tests that were run on Colton Snyder and emphasises [...]

]]> By: Le Canard Noir http://holfordwatch.info/2007/04/26/pulling-my-hair-out/comment-page-1/#comment-57 Fri, 27 Apr 2007 17:04:57 +0000 http://holfordwatch.wordpress.com/2007/04/26/pulling-my-hair-out/#comment-57 It helps to understand Patrick Holford when you realise that much of his ION philosophy of ‘optimum nutrition’ and the Food For the Brain approach is a British re-branding, under his direction, of the American concept of ‘Orthomolecular Medicine’.

The key principle of OM is: “the practice of preventing and treating disease by providing the body with optimal amounts of substances which are natural to the body”.

According to Quackwatch, OM is an “Approach to therapy whose centerpiece is megavitamin therapy. Orthomolecular medicine encompasses hair analysis, orthomolecular nutrition (a variation of megavitamin therapy), and orthomolecular psychiatry.”

Hair Analysis, vitamins and mental health are at the heart of it. Holford apparently studied under Linus Pauling who termed the name ‘orthomolecular medicine’ and so brought the ideas over here.

Suffice to say, OM is very controversial.

]]> By: Jon http://holfordwatch.info/2007/04/26/pulling-my-hair-out/comment-page-1/#comment-54 Fri, 27 Apr 2007 13:32:07 +0000 http://holfordwatch.wordpress.com/2007/04/26/pulling-my-hair-out/#comment-54 ION apparently get students to analyse their own hair (see bottom of p7) http://www.ion.ac.uk/Info%20brochure%202006.pdf

Can’t be sure that this is hair mineral analysis, but not sure what else it could be?

]]> By: Shinga http://holfordwatch.info/2007/04/26/pulling-my-hair-out/comment-page-1/#comment-53 Fri, 27 Apr 2007 13:19:43 +0000 http://holfordwatch.wordpress.com/2007/04/26/pulling-my-hair-out/#comment-53 To be explicit – it’s distressing that this is advocated as a serious diagnostic techniq, full stop.

Regards – Shinga

]]> By: Shinga http://holfordwatch.info/2007/04/26/pulling-my-hair-out/comment-page-1/#comment-52 Fri, 27 Apr 2007 13:18:45 +0000 http://holfordwatch.wordpress.com/2007/04/26/pulling-my-hair-out/#comment-52 This is distressing from the viewpoint of education. I’m trying to convince myself that such techniques are not taught as part of the standard curriculum in the ION but it doesn’t look hopeful that the service provider is Principal at ION.

Regards – Shinga

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