Monthly Archives: January 2009
Round Town News describes the “Prof Holford” approach to detox
Gabrielle Fagan, writing in Round Town News – “The number one free weekly newspaper on the Costa Blanca, Costa Calida & the Canary Islands” – offers a seasonal story on how “Specialist in nutrition, Professor Patrick Holford…has devised a nourishing … Continue reading
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Working Lunch, Skinny Candy and the Implausibility of Sugar-Free Sweets
BBC’s Working Lunch has effectively given an uncontested platform for Sahar Hashemi to claim that her Skinny Candy products are ‘sugar-free, natural and guilt-free’. We think you’ll find that it’s a bit more complicated than that and you will end up delving into the meaning of sugar-free as distinct from ‘no added sugars’ and the actual calorie count and glycaemic load of maltitol when compared to table sugar (they may not be a substantial difference). Working Lunch may be a business programme but they ought not allow the casual promotion of nutritional wibble. Continue reading
More Dore: now it’s “Dyslexia and ADHD The Miracle Cure”
Dr Ben Goldacre recently said: “the “barefaced cheek of [certain] characters will never cease to amaze and delight me”. We draw your attention to the re-issue of Wynford Dore’s book, Dyslexia – the Miracle Cure, which is now re-titled, Dyslexia and ADHD – the Miracle Cure. Continue reading
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Seriously, What Do They Teach at the Institute for Optimum Nutrition Judging by the IONistas in the Public Eye?
Dr Ben Goldacre pwnd detox and Detox in a Box on the BBC Today programme. Oddly enough, Detox in a Box has nutritional expertise that is supplied by Diane Green, a diplomate nutritionist from the Institute of Optimum Nutrition. The sample menus are full of unevidenced assertions and the sort of nonsense that passes for wisdom in nutritionism. One wonders precisely what is taught at the ION. Continue reading
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Daily Record Promotes Nutritionism Nonsense: There Is A Patrick Holford Connection, Of Course
Former Visiting Professor Patrick Holford of Teesside University has a subscription 100%health service. Subscribers pay for information that will transform their life and health. Daily Record carries an item from a recent newsletter: it is riddled with the obvious and also some remarkable errors – e.g., the nutritional composition of chicken breast. When UK universities pay for accreditation of their catering facilities by such experts, precisely what are they spending their money on? Continue reading
