Category Archives: vitamin c
Thomas Lodi, An Oasis of Healing, cancer and threats of legal action
Apparently the company ‘An Oasis of Healing‘ has written to the excellent My Malignant Melanoma blog – asking that a blog about Thomas Lodi is removed and saying they will be “forced to take legal action” if the post is … Continue reading
Holford demonstrates why online health advice can be problematic
Advice is offered without full patient histories, and some advice around current symptoms and product use is worrying Continue reading
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Patrick Holford and the Vitamins for Asthma That Become All About Food Intolerance and YorkTest
Patrick Holford cites the wrong study in a discussion of antioxidants and asthma which gives rise to the suspicion that he has not read the correct paper. However, he rapidly moves to eulogising the advantages of York Test and supplements for controlling asthma although there is no trial or case-series to support such optimism. Continue reading
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Alternative Nutrition bingo: we predict industry responses to the JAMA trial of vitamin C and E
The Journal of the American Medical Association has recently published a good quality, placebo-controlled, randomised, double-blind trial looking at whether vitamin C and E supplementation can reduce cardiovascular events. It ran for 10 years, and included “14 641 US male … Continue reading
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‘Dr’ Holford on the immune system in the Galway Advertiser
Here at HolfordWatch, we were interested to see the Galway Advertiser referring the ‘Dr Patrick Holford’: Holford is not a doctor. The paper has been contacted about this – and we are sure that Holford himself will be keen to … Continue reading
Prof Patrick Holford makes a basic error about antioxidant side effects
Professor Patrick Holford claims that “there are no known or reported short-term side effects of antioxidants”. We have helpfully linked to some of these side-effects. In other news, one has to wonder just what Professor Holford is teaching at the University of Teesside. Continue reading
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Patrick Holford Responds to Radio 4 Programme and Misses the Point: Part 1
Professor Patrick Holford issues a clarification of his claims concerning the therapeutic usefulness of vitamin C for reducing the incidence of colds and both their duration and severity. He misunderstands his own references; his misreports the Cochrane Review on this topic. He makes some claims that do not stand up to scrutiny. Continue reading
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Private Eye: may contain nuts
‘Ratbiter’ has an excellent piece in Private Eye. In an article headlined May contain nuts, they ask Who is Patrick Holford, the British media’s favourite ‘nutritionist’? (issue 1197, p. 29). The article begins with a critical look at some of … Continue reading
Holford denies AIDS/vitamin C claims, again, and accuses Prof Colquhoun of having invented them
In a letter on the Guardian website, Professor Patrick Holford of Teesside University responds to Prof Colquhoun’s article on Endarkenment. Holford states that an example nutritional claim “given [in Colquhoun's article], apparently made by me, that ‘vitamin C is better … Continue reading
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Patrick Holford, the Poet of Putney
Professor Patrick Holford of Teesside University, like Keats and Woolf, has juvenilia. Holford Watch has discovered an early limerick by Holford that praises vitamin C. The work reminds us all of times when we believed ourselves to be young, gifted yet hack. Continue reading
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