A magic ingredient that food industries seized upon – the Artificial Sweetener. ibid.
The brains of people who use sweeteners show a weaker response to sugar. ibid.
There’s still no definitive answer about the risks of being mildly overweight. ibid.
And as the need to get thinner gets ever more urgent I’ll be asking who we can really trust to help us. Jacques Peretti, The Men Who Made Us Thin IV
The diet plate, diet soaps, diet lollypops … a magnetic fat-reducing ring … ibid.
KE Diet: You get liquid food through your nose, much of it protein. ibid.
Brazilians are falling in love with fast food and sugary drinks. ibid.
Nestle have got a boat which delivers packaged food to people living alongside the Amazon. ibid.
More people in the world are overweight than undernourished. Obesity levels are rising. Jacques Peretti, The Men Who Made Us Fat I, BBC 2012
How business changed the shape of a nation. How the food industry itself choreographs temptation. ibid.
Two thirds of British adults are overweight. ibid.
The food industry has changed the very nature of what we eat in the last forty years. ibid.
A Japanese scientist had invented a process that turns corn into a cheap sweetener. By the 1980s high fructose corn syrup would become the number one substitute for sugar. ibid.
Earl Butz transformed the American diet and ultimately its waistline. ibid.
Corn syrup: its greatest impact was when it was put into soft drinks. ibid.
In 1994 the figures showed a frightening increase in people’s weight at the very time that Corn syrup in America’s food and drinks had spiralled out of control. ibid.
Scientists are now beginning to think that there is something very specific about fructose which accelerates obesity. ibid.
Keys’ view of fat as the enemy [cf. Yudkin] became the orthodoxy. ibid.
The food industry denies that it exploits neuroscience. ibid.
The idea that certain foods can be addictive is highly controversial. ibid.
The food industry and the sugar lobby in particular brought its muscle to bear to bury the [McGovern] report. ibid.
Overnight a whole new type of food was invented: low fat. ibid.
SnackWell’s was a marketing triumph but a disaster for America’s waistline. ibid.
What they did in the ’70s was give us sweeter food and more of it. ibid.
Britain is in the grip of an obesity epidemic. Twenty-four million of us are now overweight, our appetites super-sized by big business. Jacques Peretti, The Men Who Made Us Fat II, BBC 2012
The story of the men who trapped us into eating more. ibid.
Kid’s breakfast: weighs the same as a small child. ibid.
This over-consumption is killing us. More than 60% of men and women in Britain are overweight or obese. ibid.
So when did we all start over-eating? And who was it that decided we should eat bigger and bigger portions? The answer lies not in Britain but four thousand miles away across the Atlantic in America. Here in downtown Chicago is where the story of super-sizing began. ibid.
People loved the bigger popcorn buckets and taller drinks. Sales and profits soared. The super-size portion was born. ibid.
It was the arrival of McDonald’s in Britain that was to really transform the way Britons ate. ibid.
Across Britain the new counter-service restaurants offered faster food for a faster lifestyle. ibid.
McDonald’s didn’t want to bring in the value meal. ibid.
The value meal was rolled out globally. Within three years it accounted for almost half all meals sold. ibid.
More money on takeaways than on fresh fruit and vegetables. ibid.
Supermarkets: they are using super-sizing as a weapon in the price war. ibid.
They are offering calorie-rich foods at discount. ibid.
Back in the US, the land where super-sizing began, one in three people are obese, and still they keep eating. ibid.
There’s an obesity epidemic in Britain. And we think it’s all down to us eating too much fast food, processed ready meals and indulging deserts. But what if we are wrong? What if the food being sold to us as healthier is the very thing making us fat? Jacques Peretti, The Men Who Made Us Fat III, BBC 2012
Welcome to the brave new world of shopping science. ibid.
Consumers get confused about what’s healthy and what is less fattening. ibid.
In 1992 John Major’s government was the first to grapple with obesity in this report: The Health of the Nation: A Strategy for Health in England presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Health. ibid.
In 1998 Procter & Gamble launched Sunny Delight. ibid.
By 1999 the organic business was worth over £600 million, more than doubling in two years. ibid.
By 2001 obesity had doubled in women and trebled in men, and it was rising. ibid.
The food industry – they have one priority and that is making money. ibid.
The food industry: why are governments so scared? ibid.
Does dieting help? Why do we have such a complicated relationship with food? Welcome to the World of Weight Loss, BBC 2013
Weight Watchers allocate what they call Pro-Points values to food. ibid.
January – always the busiest time of year for slimming clubs. ibid.
Britain’s diet industry is big business worth an estimated £2 billion a year. Yet, as a nation, we keep getting fatter. So what’s going wrong? Tonight: To Diet or Not to Diet? ITV 2014
Over 80% of us won’t stay the course. ibid.
50 years ago ... back then the average person weighed about three stone less than they do today. ibid.
The million-pound diet industry ... The media trend could be creating more eating disorders. Tonight: Diet Fact, Diet Fiction? ITV 2015
There are thousands of books and websites offering different, often contradictory, advice. ibid.
Is dieting really the answer to losing weight in 2018? Tonight: Diets, New Year, New You? ITV 2018
Almost half of all Brits have tried to lose weight in the last year. ibid.
Does dieting work at all? … ‘99% of people who go on a diet purely end up not only failing in that but usually rebounding later.’ ibid. Professor Tim Spector
Fat burning pills … ‘No effect whatsoever.’ ibid.
Bulging Britain: is the diet industry causing confusion? What advice should we follow? And how simple should it be to lose weight? … One in four Britons is now obese. Tonight: Fighting Fat: Back to Basics, ITV 2018
Which one [diet] do you choose? ibid.
Diets: trust your gut. How do you know if you have good gut microbes? Can you change them for better? And for worse? Tonight: Diet: Trust Your Gut? ITV 2020
The influence of gut microbes on the nation’s health is now modern medicine’s big area of interest. ibid.
Can our diet have an impact on how we fight infection? Could you eat thirty different plant-based foods each week? What supplements do we really need? And can you really boost your immune system? Tonight: Can You Boost Your Immune System? ITV 2023
Can your diet defeat ageing? What should we all be eating? How hard is it to keep hydrated? Tonight: Can Your Diet Defeat Ageing? ITV 2024
Some of the latest scientific evidence suggests do it right and your New Year’s crash diet really could find the new you. Will My Crash Diet Kill Me? Channel 4 2011
You may suffer loss of sleep on a high protein diet. ibid.
On the Dukan’ diet you’re likely to suffer from halitosis or bad bread. ibid.