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The idea for this website first came about in about
1999. At that time, it was clear that most of the
Western world was being misled over what was
euphemistically called 'healthy eating'. This regime
was introduced in the US by the American Heart
Association in 1982, and in the UK by the COMA report
of 1984.
Despite its title, I had realised by 1989 that 'healthy
eating' was anything but healthy.
At that time the Internet didn't exist.
I was writing books and had been lecturing since 1971
on the evidence that we were being badly misled and let
down by those we were paying through our taxes to give
us good advice.
But they weren't doing it. They were feeding us dogma
which was wholly unsupported by any coherent body of
reliable evidence. And they still are!
I had to reach more people. The Internet allowed the
expansion to this website, which went online in 2000,
by which time I had written two books, The
Calorie Fallacy in 1994 and Eat Fat Get
Thin! in 1999.
In 1999, Dr Robert Atkins republished his 1972 book as
his New Diet Revolution. It wasn't new at all, of
course, William Banting had written about such a diet
over century earlier, but 'The Atkins Diet' sparked a
huge backlash from conventional dieticians and
nutritionists that has seen the health of the Western
world go from bad to worse.
By that time, I had been researching diet and its
relation to the 'diseases of civilisation' for almost
20 years. I decided to publish what I had learned and
Second-Opinions.co.uk was born.
Today, there is a plethora of information on the
internet. As anyone can write and publish it, it's not
surprising that there is both a lot of good stuff
— but even more rubbish. It's a bit like the spam
we get: for every page of useful information, there are
20 pages of unsupported nonsense. For this reason, I
reference everything on my site, so that you can check
it see that what I have written reflects what the
published evidence says. I would suggest that whenever
you see information without such references, you treat
them with suspicion.
One more thing: Before continuing on this website - or
any similar one - take a few minutes to read this short
extract from Jerome K Jerome's book, Three Men in a Boat. Its
message is worth considering, and it won't take long.
And you can read about me Here
Last updated 23 February 2009
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