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The Obesity Epidemic Lecture

Recorded on 7 February 2012 at an open public lecture at Cardiff Metropolitan University, Wales. You can also listen to the audio only here… http://traffic.libsyn.com/dht/The_Obesity_Epidemic_Lecture.mp3 You can also listen and download it from iTunes here Or in a new tab and download here (It’s a big file!) And you can

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Calories, Energy Balance, Thermodynamics & Weight Loss…

… “Things we’ve got wronger than a very wrong thing”! As the brilliant Dr Malcolm Kendrick would say – and Black-adder before him! Why do we say “eat less/do more”? Does it work? What do the laws of thermodynamics actually say? (because it isn’t “eat less/do more”) Why do we

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The Weston A Price Foundation Conference

The second London Weston A Price Foundation conference was held on Saturday 26th March 2011. And here are the slides: Download the presentation here

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Cholesterol & heart disease – there is a relationship, but it’s not what you think

I do a fortnightly newsletter called “Diet & Health Today” in our on line support club. The club is there to help people to lose weight by eating food – real food! Apparently that makes us radical and controversial. The main article in Diet & Health Today is called “The

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Chapter 1

In 2002, the British politician, Ann Widdecombe, took part in a television show called Celebrity Fit Club. It was a follow up programme to Fat Club, which featured ordinary people, weighing up to 30 stone, prepared to be photographed in swimsuits in a desperate bid to have access to people

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"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