Entries categorized as ‘Food for the brain foundation’
This is our 350th post on HolfordWatch. Over the course of these posts, we have found a number of inaccuracies in Holford’s self-presentation and many serious errors in his work. These errors overwhelmingly remain uncorrected or inadequately corrected, and Holford has failed to respond to almost all of the issues raised (what responses we have had from Holford are not at all convincing). However, we would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Patrick Holford: despite embarrassingly poor-quality work, an inaccurate CV and very public demolitions of his research, Patrick Holford has achieved a great deal in his career, in academia and in the media.
While we have been running this blog, Holford managed to sell his Health Products for Life business to Biocare (owned by Neutrahealth, who 30% owned by Elder Pharmaceuticals) for £464,000, and currently works as Head of Science and Education at Biocare. We have ethical quibbles about taking money from the pharmaceutical industry - we don’t do it - but careers in this industry are competitive, and Holford should be congratulated for getting so much money from Biocare (and thus, indirectly, from Elder Pharmaceuticals).
Holford should also be congratulated for having his application to be a visiting professor at Teesside University approved (more…)
Categories: Ben Goldacre · Food for the brain · Food for the brain foundation · University of Teesside · patrick holford
Tagged: Biocare, Elder Pharmaceuticals, Food for the brain, Neutrahealth, patrick holford, Teesside University, University of Teesside
Visiting Professor Patrick Holford of Teesside University and the Food for the Brain Foundation (FFTB) are promoting a very well-thought plan whereby food and supplement manufacturers will give them money in exchange for the endorsement of their products. Now, charities have to get their money from somewhere, so isn’t that all very sensible? (more…)
Categories: Food for the brain · Food for the brain foundation · Holford · University of Teesside · children · patrick holford
Tagged: allergy, allergy test, Allergy UK, antioxidants, Anton Emmanuel, Cherry Active, dried cherries, Food for the brain, food intolerance, Holford, patrick holford, Peter Whorwell, yorktest
Categories: Ben Goldacre · Food for the brain · Food for the brain foundation · allergy · anaphylaxis · food intolerance · omega 3 · patrick holford
Tagged: patrick holford, Holford, omega 3, Ben Goldacre, University of Teesside, Food for the brain, nutritionism, FFTB, The Rise of the Lifestyle Nutritionists, BBC, Radio 4, essential fatty acids
Patrick Holford is tremendously proud of what he believes Food for the Brain (FFTB) accomplished during their collaboration with Chineham Park Primary School. So much so that, to the fair-minded, it seems as if he is perilously close to neglecting to acknowledge the tremendous achievements that the Chineham Park Primary School had made prior to the implementation of the project.
Of course, Patrick Holford is a byword for accidental misrepresentation in some parts. Read on
Categories: Food for the brain · Food for the brain foundation · Holfordism · ION · institute for optimum nutrition · institute of optimum nutrition · patrick holford · supplements
Patrick Holford seems to have the same effect on numbers that some people claim to have on electronic gadgets; they scramble in his presence or even that of people associated with him. That is the only possible explanation for one of the worse data summaries/commentaries that I have ever seen: Dr David Woodhouse on the subgroup analysis performed as part of the Chineham Park Primary School FFTB project that will be featured in this evening’s Trevor Macdonald programme. I kept expecting a Shirley Bassey audio file to blare out a bravura performance of:
Nobody does it like me! If there’s a wrong way to say it - A wrong way to play it - Nobody does it like me! - If there’s a wrong way to do it - A right way to screw it up - Nobody does it like me
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Categories: Food for the brain · Food for the brain foundation · Holford · TOVA · patrick holford · supplements
