Category Archives: health
FSA’s Low Income Diet and Nutrition Survey: Some Snippets
The Eating within recommended dietary guidelines and on a budget project is having some difficulties. Not, oddly, on the actual shopping, cooking or budgeting fronts but the dietary analysis that I want to perform. On the upside, I have located … Continue reading
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Patrick Holford Promotes His Apocryphal Homocysteine Gospel in The News of the World
Former Visiting Professor Patrick Holford gives the News of the World the benefit of his insight into homocysteine but makes some suprisingly basic errors. Especially surprising as this is such a recurrent theme in Holford’s entrepreneurial scheme for selling diagnostic tests, nutritionista consultations and ‘corrective’ supplements. It’s time for Holford’s wisdom on homocysteine to be retired to ‘apocrypha’ in his Optimum Nutrition Bible. Continue reading
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Down for Everyone or Just Me: Use It People, Use It Before Generating Conspiracy Theories
Orthomolecular Medicine News Service is warning us all about dental amalgams and is forecasting that they will be the subject of the “biggest product-liability lawsuit in history”. They spin some conspiracy theories by the numbers in their email, some of them rest on the fact that pages have been updated in 4 years (and revision dates provided) or that a web page has disappeared, except that it hasn’t, as a quick entry into ‘Down for Everyone or Just Me’ would have indicated. YMMV, but with research skills like that, why would you trust these people for health advice? Continue reading
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Patrick Holford and His Alternative to Anti-Depressants
Professor Patrick Holford frequently accuses healthcare workers, scientists and researchers of concealing research or failing to report it accurately. Holford seems to have failed to noticed some relevant nuances about the Kirsch et al meta-analysis of anti-depressants and is promoting his unproven nutritional advice as an appropriate alternative with ‘conclusive evidence’ for some elements. Holford overstates the evidence for tryptophan and 5-HTP. Continue reading
Life’s 4 Living: bizarre energy-medicine ‘cure’ for MS
Life’s 4 Living is conducting a healing programme for children and young adults with Multiple Sclerosis. Holfordwatch has some concerns about the evidence-base of the treatment modalities and whether or not it might unjustifiably offer the promise of a cure for this chronic condition. Continue reading
Filed under children, health, Life's 4 Living, Mental Health
Food for the Brain: Child Survey: Review Part 10
Professor Patrick Holford of Teesside University and Drew Fobbester co-authored the Food for the Brain Child Survey, September 2007. We have previously discovered that the overview of the literature in this report was misleading and irrelevant. Unfortunately, the reporting and analysis of the survey data are even more lamentable. We can not find that there is any reason to have confidence in the authors or their findings. There was well be some disadvantages to eating fried or takeaway food on a regular/frequent basis, but Holford and Fobbester do not have the evidence to support their assertions.
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Food for the Brain: Child Survey: Review Part 8
Professor Patrick Holford of Teesside University and Drew Fobbester co-authored the Food for the Brain Child Survey, September 2007. We have previously discovered that the overview of the literature in this report was misleading and irrelevant. Unfortunately, the reporting and analysis of the survey data are even more lamentable. There are frequent errors in the graphs and even more frequent misinterpretations. Because of these mistakes, it looks as if few of the claims are accurate.
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Food for the Brain: Child Survey: Review Part 5
Holford Watch has some difficulty with the data and data analyses in Food for the Brain Child Survey 2007. We have contacted Patrick Holford who co-authored the report and two members of the Scientific Advisory Board. We have no received any answers to our enquiries. We shall present our analyses but we regret that FFTB were/felt unable to assist us. Continue reading
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