Been introduced to Tim Spector by a relative, Mr Spector seems to have a diet, with books to sell, TV appearances and a podcast. I have not come across him before.
Is Mr Spector just another phoney nutritionist with a diet and glib glossy paperbacks to sell? Or is he the real deal; a bona fide scientist with evidence backed advice, with glossy paperbacks to sell?
Tim Spector?
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This is the ZOE diet that is advertised everywhere just now. Includes some pin prick blood test from which an oracle will tell you what to eat.
As far as I can see, Mr Spector seems to have followed a similar career path to Michael Mosley. He started off being a a respectable epidemiologist. He wrote some fairly sensible stuff about eating, including a 2015 book called The Diet Myth, which seems to say the usual stuff - lots of what you read is bollocks, and the sensible thing to do is eat a varied high-fibre diet with lots of fresh fruit and veg.
He has written about the folly of fad diets.
But now he's promoting a diet. For all I know maybe what the Zoe thing does is support you to have a varied high fibre diet, because maybe some people need to be told what to eat or they'll fall back to gorging themselves on ultra-processed convenience food.
As far as I can see, Mr Spector seems to have followed a similar career path to Michael Mosley. He started off being a a respectable epidemiologist. He wrote some fairly sensible stuff about eating, including a 2015 book called The Diet Myth, which seems to say the usual stuff - lots of what you read is bollocks, and the sensible thing to do is eat a varied high-fibre diet with lots of fresh fruit and veg.
He has written about the folly of fad diets.
But now he's promoting a diet. For all I know maybe what the Zoe thing does is support you to have a varied high fibre diet, because maybe some people need to be told what to eat or they'll fall back to gorging themselves on ultra-processed convenience food.
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Tim Spector - "making people feel weird about food" for £299 (then £24.99 for 12 months)...
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/zoe-nutrition-apps
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/zoe-nutrition-apps
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Always good to see medical devices being used for non-medical purposes.bob sterman wrote: ↑Fri Oct 27, 2023 7:24 amTim Spector - "making people feel weird about food" for £299 (then £24.99 for 12 months)...
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/zoe-nutrition-apps
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Now getting criticised for 'advice' not to use factor 50 Sunblock all year round
https://www.theguardian.com/society/art ... -sunscreen
Proposition is that Vitamin D may be protective against cancer (in mice) and that factor 50 may reduce vitamin D production.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/art ... -sunscreen
Proposition is that Vitamin D may be protective against cancer (in mice) and that factor 50 may reduce vitamin D production.
My avatar was a scientific result that was later found to be 'mistaken' - I rarely claim to be 100% correct
ETA 5/8/20: I've been advised that the result was correct, it was the initial interpretation that needed to be withdrawn
Meta? I'd say so!
ETA 5/8/20: I've been advised that the result was correct, it was the initial interpretation that needed to be withdrawn
Meta? I'd say so!
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I see Spector has history for campaigning against the sinister forces of big sun cream manufacturers.
Maybe he's worried the cream will interfere with continuous glucose monitors attached to the skin?
Maybe he's worried the cream will interfere with continuous glucose monitors attached to the skin?