People.co.uk - BIG FAT TRUTH ABOUT GILLIAN MCKEITH'S FOOD

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Diet guru Gillian McKeith has made a fortune selling her own range of "healthy" food - but much of it has more fat, salt and sugar than mainstream brands she slags off on TV.

Multi-millionaire McKeith launched the nosh after she shot to fame by humiliating overweight punters on C4's You Are What You Eat.

The 49-year-old brags her food is healthier than its rivals on supermarket shelves.

But nutrition experts insist her claims are empty boasts and say they are "appalled" by her advice to wannabe slimmers.

McKeith - who famously likes to poke around in clients' poo - labels her products with her name, photo and the motto "Wishing you love and light".

She has urged Brits to shun scores of household name brands because of the amount of salt, fat, sugar, preservatives and other chemicals in them.

And she warns on her website: "Too much salt is reckoned to be responsible for about 35,000 heart attacks and strokes a year."

Yet her Organic Quinoa Flakes cereal contains twice as much salt as Coco Pops.

Her Organic Haricot Beans have more than twice the fat content of Heinz Baked Beans in Tomato Sauce.

Her "healthy" Goji Berry Bar has almost as much sugar as a Cadbury's Flake, while another food bar has more fat than a Snickers ice cream. And her Organic Hemp Bread Mix has almost four times the fat of a Kingsmill Great Everyday Thick Sliced White loaf.

McKeith has sold more than three million books thanks to her her food range and TV shows, which also include Supersize vs Superskinny on E4.

But the presenter, who owns a mansion in north London's plush Hampstead, is no stranger to controversy. Two years ago she agreed to stop calling herself a doctor because the qualification from a US college was not an officially recognised medical degree.

And her diet advice has repeatedly sparked outrage from dietary experts.

Amanda Wynne, of the British Dietetics Association, has said of McKeith: "We are appalled. It's obvious she hasn't a clue about nutrition."

And her colleague Kathy Cowborough said: "There are obviously health problems associated with getting too much salt, sugar and fat."

But McKeith's spokesman Howard White dismissed the criticism, insisting: "Gillian does not do nutrition by numbers.

"What she's proposing is a change of lifestyle - that's what it's all about.

"We have had hundreds - if not thousands - of testimonials from people around the world who Gillian has helped."

He added: "When you are different and you're against the medical establishment, there is a chance some people won't agree with it.

"But the bottom line is the average person who truly does it Gillian's way will be better off for it."

You have to be suspicious of Scottish people bearing gifts. Sounds like a Get Rich Scheme rather than a get fit scheme.

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Coca to be Traded Freely in the US?

Yesterday I learned that Condi was in Columbia spruiking a Free Trade Deal between Yanqui Agribusiness and the Columbian Government Dictatorship. WTF I thought. Why would the US, the largest market for the the biggest cash export from Columbia want to do a deal with them. I didn't know that there were any duties on cocaine?

Seems it is the same old thing. America developing agreements with countries to benefit their agribusiness sector and for the good old boys who run things in Columbia to get richer.

Foreign investor rights--a typical pro-corporate, so-called "free trade," measure--would tighten the grip that large corporations have on the country's natural resources and launch a large-scale plundering of those resources such as timber and minerals. Without a government willing to nationalize such resources or, at the very least, make sure that the benefits of the commercial exploitation are widely spread, you can be sure that huge riches will flow to a handful of people, while most of the population is left with pennies.

Well who would have thought.

The plans would seem to encourage poorer farmers to grow coca rather than to get into other crops.

The FTA's grant of duty-free U.S. access for flowers and certain other commercial-scale agri-export crops will certainly put pressure on Colombia to expand agribusiness plantations for such exports. These plantations have been a disaster for the regular farmer. Indeed, under pressure in the 1990s from international lending organizations, Colombia implemented a program of "economic openness," which unleashed a tide of traditional cereals, rice and oats pouring into the country. As a result, 1.1 million hectares of cultivated land were lost. Arenas says that 300,000 farmers, then, turned to cultivating coca. "So, now, with FTA, they want to lower every tariff to zero which will devastate every farmer and make them grow coca,

So much of Americas foreign policy seems to be counter intuitive. What drugs were they on when this was all pulled together?

I wonder if they will send it in the mail?

I must be on the this guys a sucker list for all these scams judging by how many I get. I liked this one. I wonder what you would do with 800 kg of gold dust and how much it would cost to ship to Australia.

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I'll be on the plane this weekend.

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Very interesting reading and well worth sharing.

Luck of the Irish

Boy am I lucky. To Be Sure To be Sure....

It's funny, I just don't remember sending that email.

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Baaaking Mad in Sapporo

As you would be if you bought a poodle and it didn't bark, eat dog food and you went to the vet to have its toes clipped and are told they are hooves. Apparently poodles are very expensive in Japan and people who bought the $1,600 sheep thought they were getting a bargain. More than they bargained for more like.

Sheep are quite rare in Japan and most Japanese have never seen one. Perhaps they should have checked here first.

Sheep can be purchased for about $50 in the local market here in South Australia. With a bit of feeding and grooming and transportation costs thrown in, there is a good potential for a quick profit. Great business scam while it lasted.

Thanks Cheeseburger Gothic for the entertainment tip.