Category Archives: food intolerance
Patrick Holford, YorkTest and a Migraine Study
Former Visiting Professor Patrick Holford but still Head of Science and Education at Biocare has an enthusiasm for interventions that we wish we might share but, too frequently, when we examine the studies on which he relies, the results do … 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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Allergy UK Wants YorkTest IgG Food Intolerance Tests Available on NHS
YorkTest has yet more credulous write-ups in local media. Allergy UK appears to be supporting their call for the provision of IgG food intolerance tests on the NHS although clinical allergists and immunologists state that the test has no role in the diagnosis of food intolerance. Continue reading
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Patrick Holford, Still Claiming IgG Levels Are Relevant to Food Intolerance and Weight Loss
Patrick Holford claims that food intolerance is linked to resistant weight loss. He continues to advise people to purchase YorkTest’s IgG blood test to diagnose food intolerance although many associations of immunologists and clinical allergists have reported that the test has no clinical support or relevance. He also advises that people should take the supplements that he recommends that are made by the company for which he works. Continue reading
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You and Yours on Which? Investigation into Food Intolerance Tests
Radio 4′s You and Yours ran an intereresting segment about the Which? investigation into food intolerance testing. Dr Mike Walker of Cambridge Nutritional Sciences participated and attempted to defend the scientific basis for the IgG food intolerance test. However, he argued that the IgG food intolerance test is not diagnostic of food intolerance. Oddly enough, YorkTest have also made similar statements. Somebody should send Allergy UK and Patrick Holford the memo about this. Continue reading
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Update on Which?, YorkTest and Selective Quoting in Google Sponsored Links
As an interesting update to our recent discussion of the Which? investigation into food intolerance tests, YorkTest seems to have withdrawn its Google sponsored ads that had so egregiously quote-mined and distorted the results of the investigation. However, this incident speaks volumes about the state of transparency in the relationship between YorkTest and the customers that it has and the customers that they are attempting to attract. Continue reading
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YorkTest, Hardman & Hart: there’s a difference between the BMJ and Nutrition and Food Science
A YorkTest brochure about their IgG food intolerance tests states that there are “25 years of the highest quality ‘double blind’ clinical trials that have been published in numerous peer reviewed medical journals, including the British Medical Journal”. No, there aren’t and they have never published in the BMJ. Chutzpah or mistake? Continue reading
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Which?, YorkTest and Cambridge Nutritional Sciences Ltd
A Which? investigation into commonly available tests for food intolerance reported that the tests returned inconsistent results and flagged up health problems that don’t exist. Predictably, both YorkTest and Cambridge Nutritional Sciences have objected to the findings although it isn’t clear what their grounds are. YorkTest in particular demonstrates a degree of chutzpah that we typically associate with former Visiting Professor Patrick Holford. Continue reading
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Holford tries to respond to questions raised by BBC documentary. He fails.
Having just posted about Professor Patrick Holford of Teesside University’s curious relationship with the mainstream media, we were fascinated to see Patrick Holford responding to the Radio 4 programme: The Rise of the Lifestyle Nutritionists. From what he writes, it … Continue reading
Holford’s Health Products for Life breaches ASA rules on truthfulness and substantiation
Today, the ASA have ruled against Health Products for Life (HPFL): a supplement company that Professor Patrick Holford (Head of Science and Education at Biocare) sold to Biocare, and which has a website – and sells pills – with a … Continue reading
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