Big Fat Lies III – Starch

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

Hannah Sutter says that the government is wrong (based on various researches) to advise us to eat lots of starchy foods like rice, pasta, bread etc., because our lifestyles tend to be sedentary these days. This advice to eat starchy foods is flawed because starches (rice, pasta, bread, cereals etc) readily turn to glucose, which [...]

Big Fat Lies II

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

Hannah says, as we saw in the first Big Fat Lies post, that the government is telling us to EAT LESS and EXERCISE MORE! She goes on to say that despite (from 1997 to 2004) a reduction in calorific intake; an increase in consumption of (recommended) fruit and vegetables, and an increase in (recommended) exercise [...]

Big Fat Lies

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

I read an article in a newspaper recently (Daily Mail – “The Big Fat Lies about Britain’s obesity epidemic” – by Hannah Sutter) – the title speaks for itself. Hannah Sutter is lawyer by training yet has obviously spent a lot of time researching, and has concluded that the Government’s guidance on this issue is [...]

Metabolism and weight loss

Friday, January 15th, 2010

Been reading a lot about this lately in order to try and see if there is a consensus. Not really, a lot of “scientific”? (not being rude here, but who knows how genuine they are?) articles do come up with the same sort of stuff liberally laced with all sorts of scientific sounding words. But [...]

Diet – words of wisdom?

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

I remember a radio show a few years ago which was a discussion program on the subject of popular weight loss diets. The participants in this programme were the presenter, various advocates of different diet regimes, and a Professor of Nutrition at one of our (UK) universities. The programme started with the presenter introducing everyone [...]