Category Archives: Holford
Holford Diet site’s interesting take on Cochrane Review
Holford has had varied engagements with Cochrane Reviews, so we were interested to see the Holford Diet site – which promotes a low glycaemic load (LGL) diet plus supplements – celebrating one Review’s alleged finding that a low GL diet … Continue reading
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Patrick Holford Claims More People Die, Prematurely, From Cardiovascular Disease Than Actually Die, Prematurely, From All Causes
Patrick Holford persists in exaggerating the number of premature deaths from cardiovascular disease by approx. 500%. He also claims that doctors are uninterested in diet and lifestyle interventions. We discuss his errors in some detail. 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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Food for the Brain, Russell Partnership and Universities That Should Know Better: Updated
A small but increasing number of UK universities are spending money on accreditation from Food for the Brain. Why? The FFTB educational materials contain mis-information or are embarrassingly simplistic. HolfordWatch has some reservations about the value of FFTB audits. Why aren’t catering depts. that need guidance asking the specialist depts. of their own universities? Continue reading
The Advertising Standards Authority May Be Closing Some Loopholes: About Time
YouTube virals must play by US ad rules: UK advertising rules may change to close loophole. We have blogged several ASA rulings that involve Patrick Holford and Equazen where the ASA has found that their advertising in untruthful, unsubstantiated etc. and yet, these breaches of advertising guidelines continue because of various loopholes. The ASA may be about to close some of those loopholes. Continue reading
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Does Patrick Holford Lack Generosity of Spirit As Well As Scholarly Accuracy?
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. In the November 2008 issue, Holford casts aspersions on the the state of knowledge of the research literature on chromium and blood sugar management for the writers and editors of the Manual of Dietetic Practice. He upbraids them for failing to update their text in the light of a systematic review that was published *after* the book was published. Despite Holford’s selective quotation from that review, it is clear that the review does not merit any update to the text as yet. Continue reading
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Canard-ridden Holford interview in National Health Executive Review
Patrick Holford and Food for the Brain think that a profile of Holford in the National Health Executive shows him in a good light despite some extraordinary questions. The piece is so odd that it really doesn’t do anything except raise questions about why this piece was published. However, NHE advertises that it is an effective outlet for marketing campaigns so perhaps the publication of this article isn’t so odd. Continue reading
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Who Wrote About Food for the Brain in The Economist: Conflict of Interest?
It is with great sorrow and yet some amusement that we report the identity of the writer responsible for the recent, lamentable, credulous write-up about the Food for the Brain conference in The Economist. The article lauded nutritional approaches to the treatment of addiction. When you learn the identity of the author, you may think that there is a conflict of interest, we couldn’t possibly comment. Continue reading
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When Constipation Becomes a National Pastime or Why Japan Is An Awful Warning to Us All
Troubled by the incidence of constipation amongst young children, there is a campaign in schools in Japan to teach children how to have healthy bowel movements and eliminate constipation. Japan seems to have a remarkable obsession with bathroom gadgetry that co-exists with social reticence about using the bathroom in earshot of others. In the UK, we have our own bowel obsessions. Continue reading
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