Archive for March, 2015

Cuddly dietitians in cosy embrace of industry fat cats

9 by / on 16 Mar 2015, / in Vested interests

If this blog included cartoons, the one illustrating this post would show a small mouse-like dietitian held in the fearsome claws of a vast and grinning fat cat wearing a suit covered in brand names such as Coca-Cola, Mars, Nestlé, Unilever Foods and WK Kellogg Institute.
The dietician’s speech bubble would read: ‘It’s OK I’ve got it under control.’ It would be captioned: ‘The delusion of the dietitians’.

Current Posts – 16 March 2015

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Dietitians are the people we […]

The Myth of ‘False Hope’

28 by / on 12 Mar 2015, / in cancer

As a 48 year old wife and mother with late stage cancer in my lungs, lymph nodes, bones and brain I had been quietly hoping that Lord Saatchi’s Medical Innovation Bill would make it through the House of Commons – unusual as that outcome may have been for a private member’s bill. But hey, he got it through the Lords, had The Telegraph backing his cause and won considerable support in the country, so there was some cause for excitement.

Current Posts – 12 March 2015

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Medical opinion that the Saatchi […]

Sacred cows dispatched at South African low-carb, high-fat summit

4 by / on 5 Mar 2015, / in high fat diet

Last month sounds of the slaughtering of sacred nutritional cows could be heard coming from Cape Town International Convention Centre in South Africa – the venue for the first International Summit on low-carb, high-fat (LCHF) diets.

Among those forensically dispatched were such perennials of the dietitians’ lexicon as: obesity is simply the result of greed and sloth; calories in equal calories out (CICO, pronounced psycho); saturated fat causes heart disease, and type 2 diabetes is irreversible.

Current Posts – 5 March 2015

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Fighting in the high-fat low-carb […]

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