Monthly Archives: April 2009
Patrick Holford’s Recommendation for Swine Flu – Same As Those for Bird Flu But With Phrase Substitution – Updated
Patrick Holford has broken his (unaccountable) silence about pandemic fears around Mexico City flu (aka, swine flu). Take vitamin C. Jab more vitamin C into your veins. Black elderberry makes it harder for viruses to enter your cells. Roll up. Continue reading
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Resistant Starch: Misunderstood and Mis-promoted
Men’s Health advises its readers to eat vegetables with resistant starch because it is a good dieting aid. Unfortunately, the recipe that they give neglects to mention the important fact that, for potatoes, it is essential that the vegetable should be cooled in order for the resistant starch to form as heating destroys the crystals. Simple dietary messages are easily garbled in the media but journalists and readers blame scientists for any resulting confusion. Continue reading
Filed under blood sugar, GL diet, glycaemic load, glycemic load, Low GL Diet
Science: So What – Showcasing Just How Much They Don’t Understand Social Media As Well as Science?
Science: So What mounts the clown car and shows us what their social media strategy is made of by commenting on one of our previous criticisms and somewhat magnificently failing to understand the point. Continue reading
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Lloyds Pharmacy sell Alli (Orlistat) online
Lloyds Pharmacy is selling Alli online. Bricks and Mortars pharmacists are encouraged to weigh customers and estimate their BMI: for some people online might seem less embarrassing. However, online drug purchasing is open to abuse. Continue reading
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Patrick Holford and the Vitamins for Asthma That Become All About Food Intolerance and YorkTest
Patrick Holford cites the wrong study in a discussion of antioxidants and asthma which gives rise to the suspicion that he has not read the correct paper. However, he rapidly moves to eulogising the advantages of York Test and supplements for controlling asthma although there is no trial or case-series to support such optimism. Continue reading
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Durham’s ground breaking Equazen EyeQ/fish oil initiative report released
In response to a reader comment, I looked to see whether Durham’s fish oil trial initiative report had been published. When we got a copy of this report through a Freedom of Information request (in October 2008) we were told … Continue reading
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Anton Emmanuel on why IgG testing for intolerances is not a useful diagnostic tool
Dr Anton Emmanuel sounds an appropriate note of caution about people wasting their money on IgG blood tests for the diagnosis of food intolerance. So, why is he on the expert panel of a charity that promotes those tests? Continue reading
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Dore New Zealand goes into liquidation
Last year, the Dore – which claimed to be able to treat dyslexia and other specific learning difficulties – went into administration in the UK and Australia. Dore UK failed to refund all the money that families had spent on … Continue reading
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People Successfully Convinced that Healthy Food Is Expensive So Resorting to Supplement Pills: Patrick Holford and Vitazyme
Former Visiting Professor Patrick Holford is Head of Science and Education at Biocare so he has a substantial and understandable interest in selling supplements. Creating a large-scale market for supplements depends upon several factors. The factors include convincing people that: … Continue reading
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Roy Rutherford and the Autism Treatment and Prevention Centre
We were fascinated to see that Dr Roy Rutherford (who helped found Dore and is listed as a Medical Consultant there) has now set up the Autism Treatment and Prevention Centre (AUTAP). Given that there is currently very little in … Continue reading
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