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← Older postsThe ‘new’ gym culture and why I don’t like it…
It’s funny isn’t it how one day you realise you are starting to sound more and more like your parents? All of a sudden things just ‘aren’t as good as they used to be’ and ‘I used to go places when they were all just fields’. I’m only 36, yet already I can reflect on the health and fitness industry and see changes that I am not so sure represent the so-called progression and innovation that everyone blathers on about on fitness websites and blogs. Every year we hear about emerging trends or how fitness is ‘evolving’, yet I don’t see this transferring to the average gym user. In fact, I see some stupid shit being done now that years ago didn’t exist and for a good reason. Continue reading →
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The Cause of Obesity, revisited…
The Cause of Obesity I tried to explain this whole thing to someone on saturday and it was a bit of an epic fail, so who better to succinctly sum up many of the things I discuss regularly in my corporate talks than Professor Robert Lustig. Let’s hope that Andrew Lansley is watching! I’ve been posting a lot about this lately here and on Facebook and it is a fascinating topic. More fascinating is that it seems to remain ‘fringe’ information still ignored by the NHS, Dieticians, and many other health professionals.
Thanks to The Diet Doctor for posting this on his blog where I first came across it.
Right, I’m suffering with the inevitable London flu that seems to be an inevitable consequence of sharing trains with lots of ill people all week long so I will get back to the strictly medicinal dram of highland single malt that I am nursing and 75mg of UberZinc.
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Should your grandma be worried about cholesterol?
Cholesterol and heart disease is becoming somewhat of an obsession for me. With a big talk coming up in the next week at major investment bank I know questions on the topic will be popular, particularly given the evidence and opinions I present. I can often hear the intakes of breath and see eyebrows raising when I suggest why you shouldn’t be so worried about saturated fat or indeed your cholesterol being ‘slightly elevated’ and why you should be concerned if your doctor suggests a statin as a solution.
So, I was interested to hear that my grandmother was concerned after her GP had recently expressed concern to see her cholesterol elevated. While I don’t have time for a diatribe on the whole diet/heart hypothesis and the complexity of the evidence surrounding heart disease, it is worth just exploring why the doctor would be worried. Continue reading →
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The House of Lords to save us from obesity? Maybe not…
Today’s insight into popular exercise literature and culture comes courtesy of that bastion of health, wellbeing, and physical par excellence that is the House of Lords. Tory Peer Lord Macoll of Dulwich was able to single-handedly provide us with a solution for the growing obesity in our country. His insight? Simply for us all to eat less. There you have it, although heaven knows how they will fill the remaining years of a dietetic degree now that has been revealed. Not content with enlightening us all as to the real reason so many people are overweight, he went on to say that politicians are in fact misleading you all by stressing that exercise is the solution. Continue reading →
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Dieticians not so sure after all?
An article popped up on BBC Health this week that caught our eye at the Foundry.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-14882832
It seems that those in the world of dietetics are finally realising that some of their advice may not be all it is cracked up to be. This interesting given the amount of criticism ‘nutritionists’ have come in for over recent years for recommending such ‘radical’ approaches as reducing carbohydrate intake for weight loss or the suggestion that dietary fat may not actually be responsible for heart disease. The fact is that little in this article is of news to those of us who have been working on transforming body composition for many years now. Continue reading →
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