The Obesity Epidemic

facts about why 'eating less and doing more' doesn't work

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    • Introduction
    • Part 1 – The general principle
    • Chapter 1
    • Chapter 2
    • Chapter 3
    • Chapter 4
    • Part 2 – The calorie formula
    • Chapter 5
    • Chapter 6
    • Chapter 7
    • Part 3 – The diet advice
    • Chapter 8
    • Chapter 9
    • Chapter 10
    • Chapter 11
    • Chapter 12
    • Chapter 13
    • Chapter 14
    • Part 4 – How can we stop The Obesity Epidemic?
    • Chapter 15
    • Chapter 16
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Chapter 15

313 2010 “Fortune 500” Report and International Monetary Fund, World Economic Outlook Database, April 2010: Nominal GDP list of countries, (Data for the year 2009).
314 (*) http://www.cdrnet.org/about/index.htm
315 Please note that the American spelling of Dietitian has been changed to the UK spelling of Dietician for uniformity throughout the book.
316 (*) http://www.cdrnet.org/certifications/licensure/index.htm and http://www.anh-usa.org/playing-monopoly-with-our-health/
317 (*) Tennessee regulations: http://www.state.tn.us/sos/rules/0470/0470-01.pdf
318 (*) http://www.eatright.org/HealthProfessionals/content.aspx?id=7454&terms=sponsors (please note this page moved during the writing of this book, so you may need to go to the main ADA web site, eatright.org and enter “sponsors”). The 2008 Annual report was also used, as not all partners and sponsors were listed on the web site.
319 (*) Revenue figures were obtained from on line reports: wikinvest.com; finance.yahoo.com and bizjournals.com.
320 (*) http://www.kelloggs.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/?i=92
321 (*) http://www.nationalobesityforum.org.uk/about-us/our-partners.html
322 British Nutrition Foundation annual report 2008-09. Sustaining members noted as accurate as of 31 May 2009.
323 British Nutrition Foundation annual report 2008-09. Members noted as accurate as of 31 May 2009.
324 (*) http://www.nutrition.org.uk/aboutbnf/values/annual-report
325 (*) http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/British_Nutrition_Foundation
326 http://www.sugar-bureau.co.uk/pl_lwko.html
327 (*) http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/news/is-the-british-nutrition-foundation-having-its-cake-and-eating-it-too-1925034.html (22 March 2010).
328 (*) http://www.ilsi.org/Pages/AboutUs.aspx
329 (*) http://www.ilsi.org/documents/2010_ILSI_BOT.pdf
330 (*) Laura Barton, “A spoonful of propaganda”, The Guardian, 12 April (2002) http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,682864,00.html
331 (*) http://whqlibdoc.who.int/hq/1992/a34303.pdf
332 (*) http://www.nhs.uk/change4life/Pages/NationalPartnerActivity.aspx
333 (*) http://www.marketingweek.co.uk/in-depth-analysis/change4life-partners-raise-questions-over-who-will-reap-the-rewards/2063830.article
334 (*) http://www.awardscentre.org/about-asa-awards/
335 (*) http://209.20.80.25/vsite/vfile/page/fileurl/0,,5157-1-1-117462-0-file,00.pdf
336 (*) http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2010/apr/09/coco-pops-healthy-snacks-children
337 http://www.zoeharcombe.com/2010/02/kelloggs-coco-pops-advert/
338 (*) http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts1999/ukpga_19990028_en_1#pb1-l1g1
339 (*) http://www.netmums.com/food/The_Eatwell_Plate.738/
340 (*) http://www.food.gov.uk/aboutus/ourboard/boardmem/boardmembiogs/ (correct at June 2010).
341 Hannah Sutter, Big Fat Lies, Published by Infinite Ideas Ltd, (2010).
342 (*) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1220756/A-strange-lonely-troubling-death–.html
343 (*) http://www.sustainweb.org/pdf/Through_the_Back_Door.pdf
344 (*) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1244987/Millions-putting-health-risk-wrongly-diagnosing-food-allergies.html.
345 (*) http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jan/23/margarine-butter-health-wars
346 (*) http://www.diabeteshealth.com/read/2010/05/21/6690/attending-weight-watchers-meetings-helps-reduce-the-risk-for-type-2-diabetes/
347 (*) http://express-press-release.net/70/Glamour-Partners-With-Kelloggs-Special-K-In-Year-Long-Carat-Deal.php
348 (*) http://www.junkfoodnews.net/mcdonalds-olympics.htm
349 (*) http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/olympics/golden-girl-just-wants-a-burger-with-chips-899766.html
350 (*) http://www.thecoca-colacompany.com/heritage/olympicgames.html
351 (*) http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/cadbury-to-sponsor-london-2012-olympics-967688.html
352 Rebecca Wilcox, UK BBC 3, Who made me fat?, (30 October 2009). Repeated on BBC 1 (1 March 2010).



  • "The Obesity Epidemic is the most comprehensive demolition job on the arrogance and ignorance of the health profession I have ever read".
    Barry Groves Author of Trick and Treat: How 'healthy eating' is making us ill


    “Zoe Harcombe unravels one of the biggest paradoxes of today: why levels of obesity are rising despite the fact our supermarkets are producing more products designed to help people lose weight and boost their health. Harcombe overturns long held myths about weight gain – and shows how processed foods are at the heart of the problem. Unless the food industry takes responsibility for this the future health costs will become unsustainable; no matter how efficient our system.”
    Lucy Johnston, Health Editor, Sunday Express

    “By the end of this book I had been convinced, where I have never been before, that switching from a high fat to a high carbohydrate diet is the single greatest cause of the recent obesity epidemic. Ironically, carbs are the very foodstuffs that we have been instructed to eat by the new army of obesity ‘experts." Dr Malcolm Kendrick, Author of The Great Cholesterol Con

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