Christopher Scarfe is a DipION nutritionist practising in Cornwall, who previously claimed to have been a Director of the Institute for Optimum Nutrition (ION). However, we found that some of the biographical information on Scarfe’s website was inaccurate and asked him for more information about this and about his role in the early history of the ION.
We wrote very politely to ask Scarfe some quick questions, and he replied with an unwarranted barrage of unpleasantries - insulting us, our blog, blogs in general, and our lolcats. We’d rather not publish the full correspondence - we don’t think it looks very stylish, and there’s already more than enough ill-framed discourtesy available on the Internet - but if Scarfe wishes to question our account of this correspondence in any way then we will very happily put the whole exchange online. Anyway, while I can take a rude e-mail or two, Scarfe went too far when he criticised the looks of our lolcats: how can you see the cute ickle kitty cat above and say that it looks like it needs omega 3…? (more…)
Categories: Christopher Scarfe · institute for optimum nutrition · patrick holford
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Holford’s Whole Health Manual is a real joy to read: flicking through it in the library, it provided excellent light relief from the more serious texts I was reading. As well as writing positively about health dowsing, Professor Holford of Teesside University also seems to have had a soft spot for Applied Kinesiology (AK):
While the concepts behind this technique are often hard to grasp there is little doubt that it works and is a useful test in improving the overall function of our bodies. (Holford 1983, 130).
Unfortunately - while Holford has also written in the Whole Health Manual about the utility of intuition - whatever intuition, evidence or knowledge Holford was drawing on appears to have let him down here. As John Garrow has shown, Applied Kinesiology produces results similar to chance when subjected to blind testing. (more…)
Categories: allergies · food intolerance · patrick holford
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