Time bomb: famous British nutrition guru hits back

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  1. John Bear

    John Bear Senior Member

    Last August, a British paper ran a long article suggesting the bestselling nutrition author and television personality "Dr. Gillian" might be a quack. This week, Dr. Gillian apparently sued the paper for libel.

    This was the original article:

    http://www.fmwf.com/C2B/PressOffice/display.asp?ID=595&Type=1

    Headline: Is Channel 4’s latest food guru Dr Gillian really a Quack and a danger to our health?

    DR GILLIAN McKEITH is Britain’s newest health and nutrition guru. Her weekly TV programme You Are What You Eat, with its obsessive interest in the excrement of the overweight and unhealthy, boasts a regular audience of four million who lap up the advice of a woman billed as ‘the world’s most acclaimed nutritionist’.
    ...
    Her diagnostic tools include a tongue scrape, a quick pummel of the spleen and a thorough inspection of her victim’s faeces. Her favourite treatment is colonic irrigation. It is an uncompromising approach which has won many fans and she is being hailed as the saviour of Britain’s growing army of overweight people. Her book of the series is top of the UK bestsellers’ list and there’s to be a second series of her show.

    But then who would not be impressed by a CV listing degrees and diplomas from British and American Universities and specialist health foundations, together with boasts about her role as adviser to Hollywood stars such as Sylvester Stallone, Demi Moore, Joan Rivers, Michelle Pfeiffer and Madonna?
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    If it all seems to good to be true, that’s because it may well be. Today The Mail on Sunday can reveal that far from being the saviour of the obese and desperate, Gillian McKeith is, at best, a woman who seriously believes her message to be true and has misrepresented her qualifications to help her get that message across. At worst, she is a dangerous quack."

    (Her doctorate is from Clayton College of Natural Health in Alabama.)
     
  2. decimon

    decimon Well-Known Member

    I of course enjoy a good pummelling of my spleen but find excretory the rest of the treatment.
     

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