Category Archives: nutritionists

by | February 26, 2009

Patrick Holford Advises You to Remove Mercury Fillings and Undergo Chelation But Is Still Silent About Andrew Wakefield?

Former Visiting Professor Patrick Holford is still ignoring the sore thumb issue of Dr Andrew Wakefield and the findings of fraud and deliberate manipulation in association with his research. Holford is advising people to take his advice, buy his books and supplements and undergo unevidenced interventions such as chelation for unproven heavy metal toxicity. Continue reading →

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by | January 5, 2009

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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by | November 29, 2008

Ben Goldacre’s Rise of the Lifestyle Nutritionists on Radio 4 Won a Norwich Union Medical Journalism Award

Rami Tzabar and Ben Goldacre, won the Norwich Union Healthcare Medical Journalism Broadcast Category Award 2008 for their BBC Radio 4 – ‘The rise of the lifestyle nutritionists’
Judges’ comments: “This was an incisive look at some of the unsubstantiated claims surrounding this modern obsession and helped to expose the charade of alleged scientific evidence. Very refreshing.” Patrick Holford was one of the exemplar sources of distorted research findings and unsubstantiated claims that were examined in the programme. Continue reading →

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by | July 17, 2008

You & Yours on Barbara Nash and the risks of nutritional therapy Updated (again)

RD Catherine Collins and BAANT Chair Emma Styles appear on You and Yours to discuss the relative competencies of registered dietitians who are members of the HPC and the current Wild Wild West that means anybody can call themselves a nutritionist. They discuss the disastrous consequences of a detox diet for Dawn Page who accepted an out of court settlement with Barbara Nash’s insurers. Continue reading →

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by | July 6, 2008

Tara Parker-Pope suggests consulting a nutritionist if “on a renal diet in advanced stages of CKD”

Tara Parker-Pope has advised people who need advice on specialist diets to consult their doctor or nutritionist. She fails to specify that not all nutritionists are adequately qualified or experienced and that care should be taken when consulting one. Continue reading →

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by | April 26, 2008

Irish Association of Nutritional Therapy: Giving the Facts About the Cochrane Review of Antioxidant Supplements

The Irish Association of Nutritional Therapy (IANT) has posted a response to the Cochrane Review of Antioxidant supplements for prevention of mortality in healthy participants and patients with various diseases. IANT claims that the review is “best completely flawed and at its worst seriously damaging and misleading”. However, from our reading, IANT distorts the review, mis-reports some of the study criteria and attributes some statements to the authors that do not appear in the review. Continue reading →

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by | March 24, 2008

The Rise of the Lifestyle Nutritionists: “food has become a modern obsession”

In the first part of this two-parter, Ben Goldacre does an excellent job of reminding us that of how “food has become a modern obsession”. We’re taken through the colourful history of nutritionism in the US – and, in a … Continue reading →

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by | March 23, 2008

The Rise of the Lifestyle Nutritionists: Ben Goldacre on nutritionists and nutritionism

Ben Goldacre‘s presenting an interesting-looking 2 part programme on BBC Radio 4 – starting at 8pm on Monday March 24. The first part analyses the history of lifestyle nutritionists – everything from the quack cure-all Hadacol to the (mis)appropriation of … Continue reading →

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by | May 31, 2007

Is Holfordism Harmless? Part 2

A recurrent theme among the anonymous commenters is that we need to develop compassion and an open mind when we discuss Patrick Holford and his work. I’m unclear as to whether either of these ought to encompass the acceptance of … Continue reading →

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by | May 9, 2007

British Association for Nutritional Therapy – when an organisation looks like a regulator, quacks like a regulator, but isn’t a regulator

11111It is important for healthcare providers to be properly regulated. An important aspect of this is the transparency of the regulatory process: for example, the GMC (which regulates Britain’s medical doctors) makes its guidelines on good practice available on its … Continue reading →

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