Comments on: Patrick Holford and Scientific Accuracy and Attention to Detail: He Needs It

By: Elli

Elli — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 03:19:54 +0000

I think his ideas are right we probably do need lots of vitimins and good sex and a peacefully life and to bend our knees slightly when walking and go to stool with a phone book beneath our feet or squatting and twenty minutes or more of moderate aerobic exversise and a good job and clear clean water to quench our thirst and nice scenery to sooth the mind and lovely music to balance the heart and a personal trainer and a juicer and a sprouted and organic food and yoga and tai chi and healthy relationships and a counceller and lots of great sex but I think hr doesn’t need to prove it with bogus back up stats and in fairness our world is poluted crowded stressed and people are lonely overworked soulstarved tired folk who really if were going to survive we better get as much radiation and mutate into carbon monoxide breathing fat eating sugar tolerant chemical resistant people asap or just die out cos there ain’t but the very few who get those health perks and it’s not realistic. Down with bogus stats up with vitimins if u can afford em! all u need is love a study in 1907 at the university of Cardiff by proffesor googleton suggests that eighty percent of those recieving an average daily intake of infinite true love faired better at phsycometric test than those of the control group who were given all the vitimins hens cures nice livin and fancy colonics good money could buy!

By: Patrick Holford on Andrew Wakefield: He Needs to Issue an Update « Holford Watch: Patrick Holford, nutritionism and bad science

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:06:20 +0000

[...] like someone vaguely brings their maths skills to bear. It’s not even as if the claims in those special reports are up to date because they just seem to be cut and pasted from his books and nobody checks that [...]

By: Patrick Holford: “conventional medicine, doesn’t have a very good track record” « Holford Watch: Patrick Holford, nutritionism and bad science

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:28:54 +0000

[...] some of the other offerings in the YorkTest portfolio. [b] We have previously commented on just how out-of-date and inaccurate some of these Special Reports are and the fact that they seem to be very poor value for money. [c] Holford has a track record for [...]

By: Daily Record Promotes Nutritionism Nonsense: There Is A Patrick Holford Connection, Of Course « Holford Watch: Patrick Holford, nutritionism and bad science

Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:39:11 +0000

[...] service. Now, we’ve commented on the quality of this service on several occasions and questioned whether it represents value for money. However, in these times of repeated laments about the economic downturn and the need for [...]

By: Does Patrick Holford Lack Generosity of Spirit As Well As Scholarly Accuracy? « Holford Watch: Patrick Holford, nutritionism and bad science

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:07:51 +0000

[...] fair-minded than some people credit us. In May, 2008 we commented that Holford had just issued a Special Report on Natural Pain Killers that relied upon a study that shows “conclusively that fish oil supplementation can reduce [...]

By: Patrick Holford and How to Obtain 6000 ORAC Units a Day « Holford Watch: Patrick Holford, nutritionism and bad science

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:09:59 +0000

[...] someone vaguely brings their maths skills to bear. It’s not even as if the claims in those special reports are up to date because they just seem to be cut and pasted from his books and nobody checks that [...]

By: dvnutrix

dvnutrix — Mon, 19 May 2008 18:39:38 +0000

Blech, that’s what comes of working on these late at night, something that seems very thinksome in your head comes out entirely different (apologies to Pooh).

By: censored

censored — Mon, 19 May 2008 11:44:16 +0000

Ah fair enough, but over my head that one…

By: dvnutrix

dvnutrix — Mon, 19 May 2008 11:00:00 +0000

Bad pun - the cocoa leaf is full of antioxidants and yes, I had thought that most people would spot the coca leaf/coca-cola etc. connection.* Not that Holford mentioned it..."Rest assured that it wasn’t full of recommendations that people should brew and consume poppy syrup or chew cocoa leaves". The point, in case it got lost, is that Holford repeatedly accuses other people of not being up to date on their research. Yet Holford recommended fish oil on the basis of one particular study that has been retracted by the authors. And that this is one mistake among many in this Special Report that people have paid to receive. * Lousy pun, but we've been writing a lot of Holford's antioxidant warblings lately and it is unlikely that he would ever recommend that you would brew up a syrup or chew a leaf when he could formulate a pill for you. Seriously, his latest email to his followers told them about umpteen new forumulations including Cabinguard: "targeted combination of multivitamin and mineral with a specific antioxidant blend is designed to support circulation and natural immunity, especially when flying or travelling in confined spaces".

By: censored

censored — Mon, 19 May 2008 10:47:08 +0000

To be fair, chewing coca (not cocoa -that’s different) leaves is essentially harmless and does have mild anaesthetic properties.