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Barry Groves
Barry Groves lives with
his wife, Monica, in a small village in the Oxfordshire
Cotswolds. He originally trained as an electronic
engineer and was commissioned in the Royal Air Force
with which he served until 1982.
After marrying in 1957, Barry and his wife, Monica,
became very overweight. They tried low-calorie dieting,
inert fillers, sweaty plastic clothes, exercise, et
cetera, with no long-term success. Then, in 1962, Barry
discovered the low-carb diet. It worked spectacularly
well - and still works today. Thus began his interest
in the role of food types in the aetiology of obesity.
He decided to leave the RAF at the earliest opportunity
to research the subject.
He retired from
the RAF in 1982, at the age of 45, and began full time
research, later broadening the scope of his research to
the relationship between diet and other modern
'diseases of civilisation' such as heart disease and
cancer.
As a result of his researches, he realised that the
perceived wisdoms, both of low-calorie dieting for
weight loss and 'healthy eating' for the control of
heart disease, were seriously flawed. The public were
being misled largely, it seemed, to increase the
profits of commercial interests.
He began to give talks and lectures, at first locally
and then, increasingly over an ever-wider area. He has
lectured as far afield as Western Australia.
Barry was a columnist writing about dietary and health
matters for several health-related magazines such as
The Townsend Letter for Doctors and
Patients, Caduceus and
Namaste. He has also written
columns for the Weekend Financial
Times, The Oxford
Times, and The Glade.
He has also lectured in hospitals to
medical professionals about the management and
prevention of 'modern diseases' such as obesity,
diabetes and heart disease.
His writing earned him the Sophie Coe
Prize at the 2002 Oxford Symposium on Food History.
An International author, Barry has written a number of
popular and more technical books which have been
published in countries as far apart as Argentina and
Russia, as well as all English-speaking countries.
With a doctorate in nutritional science from the
American distance learning university, Trinity College &
University, (NOT the Spanish diploma mill with a similar name) gained from 20 years' research experience
and a 60.000-word dissertation on the Politics of the
Fluoridation of Public Water Supplies (Commercial version), he
now divides his time between writing and giving talks
to Womens' Institutes, Probus, and other groups and as
a guest lecturer on cruise liners.
He is also currently:
- a director of the Foundation for Thymic Cancer Research
- a founder member of the Fluoride Action Network
- a founder member of THINCS -The International Network of Cholesterol Sceptics
- and an honorary member of the board of the Weston A Price Foundation
For five years he served as an elected councillor on the West Oxfordshire District Council where he was Chairman of the Public Health Committee.
Barry Groves does not confine himself to
medical and dietary research. With a long-term interest
in energy conservation, he and his wife, Monica,
designed and built their own solar-heated house over
three years from 1977 to 1980.
For relaxation, in 1982, he took up archery. With his
compound bow, he became the British Clout Archery
Champion in 1987. He retained this championship in the
subsequent four years and in 1994, holding all the
British Records in this discipline from 1989 to
1992.
In 1992 he entered the British Flight Archery
Championships, winning at his first attempt with a
British record. He has successfully defended this
championship for a futher 20 years and taken over 20 British
records.
With a compound flight bow he designed and made
himself, Barry won three Gold medals and broke two
World records at his first attempt at the World Flight
Archery Championships at Ivanpah, in the Mohave Desert,
California, in 1996. He shot in three separate years winning a total of eleven
Gold Medals at international level with six World championships (in different classes) and five world
records. He decided it was time to give someone else a chance in 2008.
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