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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’s Recommendation for Swine Flu – Same As Those for Bird Flu But With Phrase Substitution – Updated
Patrick Holford has broken his (unaccountable) silence about pandemic fears around Mexico City flu (aka, swine flu). Take vitamin C. Jab more vitamin C into your veins. Black elderberry makes it harder for viruses to enter your cells. Roll up. 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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Holford on Kim Hill’s Radio New Zealand show
We were concerned to hear Patrick Holford featuring in a truly disappointing interview on Kim Hill’s Saturday morning radio show: he was given over 50 minutes, almost unchallenged, to assert a whole manner of dubious claims. Patrick Holford – introduced … 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 On the Topic of Natural Versus Synthetic Vitamins
Former Visiting Professor Patrick Holford once declared that a great deal of rubbish has been said and written about the advantages of natural vitamins. We strongly agree, however, we would possibly add one more person to the list of offenders than Holford would. We discuss his 1985 work: Vitamin Vitality. 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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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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