Tag Archives: supplements
Oxford University, Food for the Brain, Alzheimer’s Disease and a Curious Test
The People’s Medical Journal (aka Daily Mail) has a touching faith in the value of early diagnosis and screening tests. It would be rather charming to note that their history of being wrong has not as yet reduced them to … Continue reading
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A Tale of Two WorkForces in the Same Workplace: Different Rules for Dietitians and Nutritionists in the NHS?
The case of Katie Peck casts an interesting sidelight on the issue that, very soon, if nutritional therapists are employed by the NHS, then there is no mechanism for challenging them for dispensing the sort of advice that might lead to a hearing before the Health Professions Council if it were given by a Registered Dietician. How would this not lead to confusion for patients? 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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How To Compile an Affordable Diet that Includes Recommended Vitamins and Minerals
Experienced Registered Dietitians can find it difficult to createa diet that meets all the dietary guidelines for vitamins and minerals within a day’s worth of calories. However, perhaps the message is to balance the calculation of nutrients over the week, rather than the day? 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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People Successfully Convinced that Healthy Food Is Expensive So Resorting to Supplement Pills: Patrick Holford and Vitazyme
Former Visiting Professor Patrick Holford is Head of Science and Education at Biocare so he has a substantial and understandable interest in selling supplements. Creating a large-scale market for supplements depends upon several factors. The factors include convincing people that: … Continue reading
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Holford on migraines: the referenciness is giving me a headache
Patrick Holford embarrasses himself and the well-informed reader by offering a post about the efficacy of B vitamins for migraine – except, his first link is to a wrong paper and the 2nd piece of evidence involves a tiny, open-label study with unimpressive results. Some people don’t understand standards of evidence. Continue reading
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Drink and Drugs News Reproved By Its Well-Informed Readers
Drink and Drugs News carried an article on addiction treatment by Patrick Holford. Enjoyably enough, readers have written in to point out the state of Holford’s actual as opposed to espoused expertise in addiction, science and research. Continue reading
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Patrick Holford and Slimming Pills That Lack Evidence: Apparently, No Irony Intended
Patrick Holford criticises some weight loss supplements that he does not market. Oddly, he criticises them for a lack of evidence that is commensurate with the lack of evidence for some of the weight loss supplements that he does recommend. Continue reading
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