Ben Goldacre‘s presenting an interesting-looking 2 part programme on BBC Radio 4 – starting at 8pm on Monday March 24. The first part analyses the history of lifestyle nutritionists – everything from the quack cure-all Hadacol to the (mis)appropriation of bona fide nutritional research in order to sell various pills and potions. Sounds well worth a listen – and, tantalisingly, the second part of the programme is going to discuss nutritionists and nutritionism in the present day.
There’s a (rather minimalist) programme website available – where I presume you’ll be able to listen again to the programme if you miss it first time round. After all, it is the bank holiday – and I guess that fermented and distilled whole foods may have a real lure on Monday…
