Tag Archives: antioxidants
Patrick Holford blogs cohort study which finds that “Multivitamin use was not related to total mortality”
I was interested to see Holford blogging about Pocobelli et al’s recent article on “Use of supplements of multivitamins, vitamin C, and vitamin E in relation to mortality”. Holford reports the study as finding that “Multivitamin use cuts heart disease … Continue reading
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Can you get 23 portions of fruit and veg in a single glass of juice: Patrick Holford Ponders, Briefly, Before Suggesting a Product
Can you get 23 portions of fruit and veg in a single glass of juice: Patrick Holford Ponders, Briefly, Before Suggesting a Product where you can consume an astonishing number of ORAC units at a high cost, without any variety and without any evidence of efficacy or clinical relevance. 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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Patrick Holford Trails His July Wisdom on Cochrane, Vaccinations and Other Topics
Former Visiting Professor Patrick Holford but still Head of Science and Education at Biocare is keen on promoting the value of his 100%health subscription service. He spoke about his service in glowing terms at the recent Allergy and Gluten Free … Continue reading
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Patrick Holford and How to Obtain 6000 ORAC Units a Day
Former Visiting Professor Patrick Holford and his crack team of researchers have uncovered that there are long-lived people who eat a diet that is plentiful in anti-oxidants. He has decided to interpret this as their ORAC intake and advises us how we might obtain 6000 ORACs a day from a diet. However, as he mostly emphasises the ORAC value of spices, we wonder if a convenient Biocare formulation will shortly be added to the Patrick Holford range. Continue reading
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Anti-oxidants and Supplementation: Not As Straightforward As It Is Made Out To Be
The story of heroic antioxidants slaying the evil free radicals and protecting us from disease and ageing is at the heart of nutritionism. However, there is scant clinical evidence to support that story. Nonetheless, many nutritionists cling to that story and continue to promote supplements despite evidence to the contrary. Continue reading
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My (Paid) Friend Says This Product Is Really Good: FFTB and Cherry-Picking
More and more charities are raising money through strategic alliances with manufacturers and by selling endorsements of products. Charities have to raise funds somehow and this is sensible. However, there is a danger that charities are being used as proxies to endorse products and provide nutritional or health benefit claims that the manufacturers are restricted from making by various pieces of regulation or legislation. We consider the recent endorsement of CherryActive dried cherries by Patrick Holford and the Food for the Brain Foundation: this product does not seem to match the stated criteria for endorsement. Continue reading
Dear Terence Kealey, About Natural v. Synthetic Vitamins
Vice-Chancellor Terence Kealey has some general comments about the short-comings of peer-review and some surprising criticisms of science. Fortunately, his perspective is placed into a useful context when he attacks the Cochrane Review using sadly familiar bogus arguments. Continue reading
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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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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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