Ok so having looked forward to seeing the Michelle McManus episode for ages (I'm not a fan of hers, don't worry, I was just quite intrigued), I finished work at 7.30pm, a bit frazzled and agreed to go to the cinema with the b/f, completely forgetting this programme was on.

Did anyone see it? How was it? Does anyone know if they're going to re-show it at any point? I know I'm a loser but I'm really bored here at work so through me a frickin bone :P

i saw bits of it, but couldn't get into it, cos was at work and was reading the sub tittles from a distance.

But the fat that the women showed her, in comparison to how much over weight she was, was disgusting. But it worked to motivate her. She did well though at xmas, cos she hardly touched the booze so credit to her :clap:

She did good - lost oodles even though she only likes two kinds of fish :P

You can find a webchat with her and times for other YAWYE episodes here, but the times they give dont match my TV listings guide :confused:

http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites/Y/yawye/index.html

I watched it but was doing other things at the same time. That pile of fat they showed - Ugh disgusting.

Her problem was not so much the amount she ate, but that she ate much the same thing every day and drank a fair bit (nowt like as much as I drink though) :o

But good on 'er, she really stuck to it and lost just over 5stone.

She says now that she's not on a diet, this is a way of life and that sounds great. At the begining, she didn't like fish at all, then she got to eat two types of fish and by the end of it she was eating lots of different types of fish and other food.

She really stuck to the not drinking as well, that must have been hard to do. I think she'll go on to lose more and more weight and good luck to her, think i'll try and follow the McKeith regime.

For all her pseudoscientific twaddle, Dr Gillian McKeith PhD seems to be telling people - "eat healthy food, do more exercise"

Now, call me a cynic, or even a miserable quack hater, but people could get this advice from their GP. For free.

Originally posted by Phanerothyme
For all her pseudoscientific twaddle, Dr Gillian McKeith PhD seems to be telling people - "eat healthy food, do more exercise"

Now, call me a cynic, or even a miserable quack hater, but people could get this advice from their GP. For free.
I'm sure that the average person could even figure it out for themselves if they pulled their heads out of their ars*s and got off the sofa once a week to do something other than have a cr*p!:D

When ever i watch that program i go to the supermarket and get loads of veggies and stuff cos i feel guilty!

arh! Don't knock our Gillian. I red her first book about 7 year ago when I'd just got outta hospital, I'd broken me kidney's and been pumped full of so much antibiotic that I couldnt keep anything down. I tried alot of the things she suggested (particually her superfood ideas and ditching sugar and caffine) and it really worked. Of course after a couple of years, I thought, "yay! I'm fixed now, lets go have an expresso!"

Originally posted by Carmine
I'm sure that the average person could even figure it out for themselves if they pulled their heads out of their ars*s and got off the sofa once a week to do something other than have a cr*p!:D

Well apparently McManus was hard pushed (:hihi:) to even do that!

Originally posted by ddolly
arh! Don't knock our Gillian. I red her first book about 7 year ago when I'd just got outta hospital, I'd broken me kidney's and been pumped full of so much antibiotic that I couldnt keep anything down. I tried alot of the things she suggested (particually her superfood ideas and ditching sugar and caffine) and it really worked. Of course after a couple of years, I thought, "yay! I'm fixed now, lets go have an expresso!"

She also says that green leaf plants oxygenate you, and she has a doctorate from the same university that awarded a PhD to a dead cat.

Also, I have to say, she's not exactly a glowing advertisement for her own product - she looks a bit like an air dried corpse.

Originally posted by Phanerothyme
She also says that green leaf plants oxygenate you, and she has a doctorate from the same university that awarded a PhD to a dead cat.

Also, I have to say, she's not exactly a glowing advertisement for her own product - she looks a bit like an air dried corpse.

What university is that!?

Originally posted by noseyrosie
What university is that!?

Arg. You caught me out.

The Dead Cat is actually a member of the same organisation "The American Association of Nutritional Consultants". Membership may be purchased, over the internet, for $60.

The dead cat does not have a Phd. Unlike Dr Gillian McKeith PhD, who received hers from the American College of Holistic Nutrition, now known as the Clayton College of Natural Health.

As a non-accredited college, whose degrees may be gained by 'correspondence courses' (you send them a cheque and they send you a doctorate) its 'qualifications' are not recognised by the federal state, and in several states she would not be permitted to practice as a nutritionist.

Her actual degrees were

First degree in Language and Linguistics from Edinburgh University
Masters in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania


Ben Goldacre has her number:
-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.


She's an out and out fraud.

This used to be her 'CV' preserved for us by the Wayback Machine here - http://tinyurl.com/8xugu

She's recanted a lot of that, and you won't see it on her website.

But when she writes, you'd think she was a pre-eminent scientist instead of a pseudo scientific twaddlemongering charlatan.

And she believes her own lies about her being a scientist To wit - her account of a Taxi Ride and a 'argument' with a cabbie. Note how she modestly trumpets her authority on the subject...
http://tinyurl.com/cpown
As I sat down to enjoy the ride ... I barely heard some mumbling from HarrY ...

‘You know, fish has more omegas than flax,’ he state.
‘I beg your pardon,’ I said.
‘I said that fish has more omegas than flax seeds,’ he re-stated.

...
‘In all due respect, you’re wrong, Harry. Flax seeds contain far greater levels of the healthy oils (omega-3 and omega-6) in a properly balanced and assimilable form,’ I explained.

‘No, I disagree,’ he argued.

‘What do you mean, you disagree? Have you spent years conducting clinical research, working with patients, lecturing, teaching, studying the omega oils in flax, obtaining worldwide data, compiling one of the largest private health libraries on the planet, and writing extensively on the topic?’ I asked. Not to mention writing this very article on this very day.

‘No’ Harry feebly replied.

I wondered, ‘Are you a scientist, a biochemist, a botanist, or have you spent a lifetime studying food and biochemistry as I have done?’
‘No’ he again replied.
‘So, where do you get such stuff? Where is your scientific authority?’ I demanded.
Harry proudly announced, ‘Oh, my wife is a doctor, a gynaecologist by the way.’
‘Is she a food specialist or nutritional biochemist as well?’ I quickly retorted.
‘Um, ah, well, no, but she is a doctor,’ he offered.


She's no scientist, she is a gifted blagger on the make.