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Assuming she's in her late fifties to early sixties, then she's wearing well and is a good advert for her own nutritional approach.
If she's any younger than that then she's just plain scary.
Maybe they're afraid of getting sued?
Dr Gillian McKeith (PhD)? Well now. Besides her PhD, which we have already discussed, there were a few other interesting entries on her CV. For example, she is proud to announce under "Professional Associations" that she is a certified member of the American Association of Nutritional Consultants (AANC), which certainly sounds impressive. I bet you get a little certificate and everything.
· In fact, I know you get a certificate, because I'm holding it in my hand right now. It's in the name of my cat, Henrietta. I got it in return for $60, and it's a particular honour since dear, sweet, little Hettie died about a year ago. So, coming in a bit cheaper than Gillian's non-accredited correspondence course PhD and Masters degrees (although she will have got a discount from "Clayton College of Natural Health" if she ordered them both at once), it looks as if all you need to be a certified member of the AANC is a name, an address, and a spare $60. You don't need to be human. You don't even need to be alive. No exam. No check-up on your qualifications. And no assessment of your practice. I guess that could be embarrassing for some of their certified professional members. Presumably, the diploma is there to certify that you have $60.
· But back to the money: if anybody wants nutritional advice from the decomposing corpse of my ex-cat, I shall be setting up a small shrine at the bottom of the garden, where you can leave chewed mice, ready cash, and offers of a primetime TV series on Channel 4.
I'm currently trying to lose body fat (permanently, but specifically for an upcoming marathon).
I've calculated my weekly requirements based on training volume, and cut calories by 10 to 15% to encourage fat loss - based on my average level of training through the week.
BUT
I've got an easy week scheduled in next week - approx 50% training volume compared to other weeks - is it worth me cutting back on calorie intake for this specific week or do I just stay at the same 'average' level - do I need to take account of the fact that my training will be light for this week, or can I assume that it'll all just average out?
Sorry for long post btw.
· Where were we? Oh yes. "Dr Gillian McKeith (PhD)", who has a peaktime Channel 4 series on "clinical nutrition", got her PhD from a non-accredited correspondence school in America and has never published any properly evaluated scientific research.
· Several of you are fans of Ms McKeith, and wrote to express how upset you were that I had childishly attacked her reputation, and not her theories. Well. Let's pick a quote at random. Chlorophyll is "high in oxygen". And the darker leaves on plants are good for you, she explains, because they contain "chlorophyll - the 'blood' of the plant - which will really oxygenate your blood." Here we run into a classic Bad Science problem. It may be immediately obvious to you that this is pseudoscientific, made up nonsense (and from the TV personality the Radio Times described as "no nonsense", no less). If it's not obvious nonsense to you, then, OK, just this once: the real science. Chlorophyll is a small green molecule that uses the energy from light to convert carbon dioxide and water into sugar and oxygen. Plants then use this sugar energy to make everything else they need, like protein, and you breathe in the oxygen, and maybe you even eat the plants. You also breathe out carbon dioxide. It's all so beautiful, so gracefully simple, yet so rewardingly complex, so neatly connected, not to mention true, that I can't imagine why you'd want to invent nonsense to believe instead. But there you go. That's alternative therapists all over.
· It's very dark in your bowels. There is no light there. Nor are there gills in your bowels. Even fish do not have gills in their bowels. Consequently the chlorophyll will not create oxygen, and even if it did, even if Dr Gillian McKeith PhD stuck a searchlight up your bum to prove a point, you would not absorb any even slightly significant amount of oxygen with your bowel. And in case you think I'm being selective, and only quoting her most ridiculous moments, there's more: the tongue is "a window to the organs - the right side shows what the gallbladder is up to, and the left side the liver." Raised capillaries on your face are a sign of "digestive enzyme insufficiency - your body is screaming for food enzymes." Thankfully, Gillian can sell you some food enzymes from her website. "Skid mark stools" (she is obsessed with faeces and colonic irrigation) are "a sign of dampness inside the body - a very common condition in Britain." If your stools are foul smelling you are "sorely in need of digestive enzymes". Again. Her treatment for pimples on the forehead - not pimples anywhere else, mind you, only on the forehead - is a regular enema. Cloudy urine is "a sign that your body is damp and acidic, due to eating the wrong foods." The spleen is "your energy battery".
· Now will somebody please explain to me how this woman can be on television, every week, wearing a white coat, talking authoritatively about "treating patients", sticking irrigation equipment into people's rectums, and coming out with sentences like "each sprouting seed is packed with the nutritional energy needed to create a full grown healthy plant" which are just simply wrong (the plant gets the energy from sunlight, using chlorophyll, like we said earlier). She is a menace to the public understanding of science, and anyone who gives her a platform should be ashamed of themselves.
Holistic nutritionist GILLIAN MCKEITH, presenter of Celador Production's hit series for Channel 4, You Are What You Eat, has been studying and researching in the fields of nutrition and diet for nearly 20 years.
Gillian grew up in the Scottish Highlands, and at the time her diet included plenty of stodgy and pre-packaged foods. In her twenties she moved to America and became the presenter of a health interest radio show. Ironically, at the time, she felt in poor health, lacking energy and suffering from headaches and aches and pains. Since discovering how to change her health and well being through diet and nutrition Gillian has never looked back, and she is now passionate about good food and what it can do to for all of us.
Gillian began studying and researching in the fields of nutrition and diet in 1985. Prior to that she attained a Bachelors in Language and Linguistics from the University of Edinburgh in 1981 and a Masters in International Relations specializing in International Business from the University of Pennsylvania in 1984.
After graduating from University of Pennsylvania, Gillian began to attend seminars in food and nutrition and study whilst also working in the business world lecturing in management studies and international business.
In 1992 Gillian’s interest in nutrition and diet had grown to the extent that she enrolled at the American Holistic College of Nutrition to undertake a Masters of Science in Holistic Nutrition.
After achieving her Masters in 1994, Gillian continued her studies at the American Holistic College of Nutrition and began a Doctorate of Philosophy in Holistic Nutrition which she completed in 1997.
Gillian is the author of the number one bestseller You Are What You Eat, based on the series, and Living Food for Health. She has written for a number of publications, and currently has a weekly column in Reveal magazine. She presented the Feel Fab Forever' strand on This Morning, and her US broadcast credits include Celebrity Health Reporter for The Joan Rivers Television Show.
Gillian is the formulator of specialised living food products and her private clientele include a number of high profile figures.
Gillian is now based in London, where she lives with her husband and two daughters.
Thats a trick one cos most people are different BUT my advice will be to continue with your nutrition the way it is on your easy week
The reason i say this is the purpose of an easy week is to allow your body to recover the continuation of your calorific intake over this periodw ewill help encourage this and help the body build its lean tissue
diet is a thing that should be avveraged over a number of dyas rather thn each and everty day so dont wory
Will
"I only know things on Discovery, Paramount Comedy or Sky Sports, or a 'whodunnit' type drama" or Google
Good point about recovery - hadn't thought about that. I worked out my daily requirement based on my training plan, then averaged that out to give me a 'daily' requirement so I'm not trying to modify my intake on a day by day basis.
Pix, having been persuaded that a 3 hour mara might be possible, I reckon it'll only happen if I give myself every advantage - which means shifting about 12 pounds of fat which, while it isn't excessive or even unsightly, doesn't actually contribute to my running. I just don't want to try to carry it that far at that speed.
Behind the label: Dr Gillian McKeith's living food love bar
by S. E. HARRIS
The broadcaster Gillian McKeith, who calls herself “the world’s top nutritionist”, was accused recently of exaggerating her academic qualifications after admitting obtaining her doctorate from an online American college. So how far can we rely on her nutritional claims? We asked Catherine Collins, the chief dietitian at St George’s Hospital, South London, to take a close look at McKeith’s Living Food Love Bar.
WHAT’S IN IT
The 70g apple-and-cinnamon bars are not cheap, at £1.69, although their key ingredients — oats, apple juice and seeds — are similar to those of other cereal bars. The main difference is what McKeith calls the added “living food love powder”, a combination of 12 “superfoods” which she claims “improve sexual function” and “enhance libido energy”.
At 230 calories a bar, this is not a low-calorie snack, providing 1½ times the calories of a packet of crisps. It is low in fat, and its high sugar content comes mainly from natural sugars in the apple juice, brown rice malt and raisins.
WHAT THE LABEL CLAIMS
Catherine Collins is concerned about the bar’s claims to “nourish libido energy” and to feed what McKeith coyly calls the male and female “love organs”. Collins says: “I would like to hear the opinion of the Advertising Standards Authority that the nutritional ingredients include ‘unconditional love and light’, and evidence that the ‘love powder’ can ‘feed ’ the sexual organs,” Collins says. “Does that mean that a bowl of cereal stops short of the nether regions?” The “love powder”, Collins says, constitutes “an absolutely minute amount” of seeds and plant extracts. “At best, herbs and spices contain natural antioxidants that are similar to those found in more conventional fruit and veg,” she says. “At worst, they contain natural plant chemicals that may cause adverse effects alone or in combination with conventional medicines.”
Collins also doubts McKeith’s claims to nutritional expertise. “The study she cites on her website crediting maca root with ‘enhancing sexual desire’ actually finds no effect on male testosterone levels, linked to male and female libido. And although daikon seeds provide antioxidants, they have little physiological effect at normal levels of consumption — and this bar contains a fraction of a gramme.”
“Dozens of studies support the efficacy of maca and sexual function. Many studies also show that sprouted seeds are exceedingly nutrient-dense and absorbable. Small quantities of superfoods can have a marked nutritional effect and the powerful superfoods in the Love Bar may benefit human health in the quantities indicated. All labels are approved by our internal legal counsel and reviewed externally. Both scientific and clinical studies show that these superfoods have beneficial affects on feeding the male and female organs.”
THE EXPERT’S VERDICT
Collins says: “If you want a healthy snack bar that isn’t style over substance, go for something like Jordan’s Original Crunchy. The nutritional and product claims for McKeith’s bar do not stand up to closer scrutiny.”
On a more catty level, as the son of a photographer, I note she looks younger when backlit
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I think she'd look at her best being backlit - very briefly - by a hydrogen bomb.
She's one of those people who for no real reason I find profoundly annoying.