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Patrick Holford v. Dr. Sarah Jarvis - the Video

June 13, 2007 · 12 Comments

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  • Shinga // June 13, 2007 at 3:20 pm

    Partial transcript of the video plus some commentary.

  • Jazimov // June 13, 2007 at 4:03 pm

    Brilliant, puts him right in his place, if your not qualified to comment on a serious medical condition, don’t.

  • Steve R // June 13, 2007 at 5:27 pm

    I wonder if this is a deliberate editorial shift in editorial policy from GMTV? Not to stop having him on but to have someone else on who may challenge the parts of his message that dont stack up (and usually involve selling poorly evidenced supplements). maybe some of the the sensible critique from here and elsewhere is beginning to seep into the conciousness of editors.

  • Le Canard Noir // June 13, 2007 at 5:56 pm

    I hope so.

    I have a nasty suspicion that Patrick will have crossed Sarah off his Xmas card list and will refuse to appear on the show again with her. Who will win? How many doctors and dieticians can GMTV line up?

  • UKdietitian // June 13, 2007 at 6:20 pm

    I’d be willing - and there’s plenty more dietitians out there that will be breathing a collective sigh of relief that GMTV is FINALLY curtailing Patricks unrestricted fatuous and inaccurate comments with a clinician who actually knows what she is talking about…

    It will be useful to see if he gains the usual free advertising space from GMTVs website directing interested viewers to his websites..

    ker-ching!!

    bottom line - Kyla improved DESPITE, not BECAUSE of Patricks supplements……

  • coracle // June 13, 2007 at 7:15 pm

    haha, loved it

    “I think that it is desperately dangerous that people like Patrick [Holford] with no medical qualifications at all are telling people like Kyra that they have cured their diabetes.“
    *Bug-eyed gawk from PH*

    Quality.

  • Shinga // June 13, 2007 at 8:46 pm

    The pusillanimous, lily-livered milquetoasts at GMTV have posted material that is taken directly from Patrick Holford’s websites and not included any of Dr. Jarvis’ comments or her objections to the claims that are made for the supplements.

    So, yes, UK Dietitian, GMTV has indeed handed over free advertising and reproduced Holford’s claims entirely uncritically.

  • Anonymous // June 14, 2007 at 7:50 am

    Dr Sarah Jarvis used to do (maybe still does, I’m not a student anymore) the medical segment of Jeremy Vine (Radio 2).

    I’m glad they made what could’ve been a puff piece for Holford’s supplements into a good analysis of what to do. I’ld like to think it was a result of GMTV but they probably just lucked out.

    Bizarrely the end of the video says The Seventh Seal is a ‘must-see summer movie’, I have to agree.

  • Simon // June 14, 2007 at 3:55 pm

    Funny how the public perception of chromium changes this article states that
    “Given the overall greater desire for better amenities rather than remedial action, policy makers and planners should discuss with residents how best to spend resources before instigating expensive cleaning up programmes.“

    Some of these areas are still the most deprived in Europe yet they went ahead with huge expensive remediation works (no doubt due to public pressure equating chromium with leukemia. I played football on pitches several miles away from the factory site but a small burn runs between the two. Over the summer of 2003 they spent huge amounts completely stripping and capping up these sports fields. (Admittedly the pitches are first class now, which should encourage greater sport participation)

    If Patrick is to be believed, we will all have diabetes soon!!!!

  • a different ukdietitian // June 14, 2007 at 8:32 pm

    Well done Dr Jarvis - good to see a well balanced evidence based point of view from a qualified healthcare professional.

  • Shinga // June 16, 2007 at 4:23 pm

    Rumour has it that at Friday’s Allergy Show during his seminar on Hidden Food Allergies, Patrick Holford referred to this GMTV piece which he plainly thought showed him to advantage or was confident that had been seen by few people. He characterised his adversary as a “snotty doctor” - splendid piece of public discourse about the sciences - about as classy as that chromium paper he was touting.

  • Shinga // June 16, 2007 at 4:30 pm

    Simon - interesting.

    I was talking to some elderly relatives recently and they were talking about how that ‘new’ radiation was originally thought to be good for you. They said that brands of washing powder, shoe polish, toothpaste etc. were rebranded to include some for of ‘rad’ in their names.

    Things poison you, are good for you - its seems to be a matter of time and emphasis. As a fascinating oddity, somebody’s post A Therapeutic Guide To Alkaloidal Dosimetric - Medication. The historical uses of mercury are particularly fascinating.

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