{"id":756,"date":"2007-07-17T20:37:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-17T20:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/wpblog\/2007\/07\/broccoli-for-brains.html"},"modified":"2007-07-17T20:37:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-17T20:37:00","slug":"broccoli-for-brains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/blog\/2007\/07\/broccoli-for-brains.html","title":{"rendered":"Broccoli for Brains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/blog\/uploaded_images\/broccoli_for_brains-724681.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/blog\/uploaded_images\/broccoli_for_brains-724679.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Last Friday, saw Trevor McDonut&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itv.com\/news\/tonight_63d020b619c13a2abd563f31ef48584c.html\">&#8216;Tonight with&#8217; <\/a>programme showcase Patrick Holford&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodforthebrain.org\/content.asp?id_Content=1\">&#8216;Food for the Brain&#8217; <\/a>charity and its involvement with a school. The school apparently saw lots of improvements with their children and so will obviously boost the standing of the Food for the Brain charity.<\/p>\n<p>And today, we see that Food for the Brain is starting to see itself as an accrediting authority now as it <a href=\"http:\/\/pr-gb.com\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&amp;amp;id=2833&amp;Itemid=9\">gives its first award <\/a>to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ashridge.org.uk\/\">Ashridge Business School<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But regular quackometer visitors will know what I think about the science of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/blog\/2007\/05\/holfordism-understanding-patrick.html\">Patrick Holford <\/a>and some of his more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/blog\/2007\/05\/patrick-holford-and-scientology-church.html\">worrying associations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As for Food for the Brain, I have collated a number of specific concerns I have about the charity:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The &#8216;trials&#8217; being undertaken are unscientific and produce ambiguous results. <\/li>\n<li>There is an over-emphasis on giving and selling supplements to children, which is not justified by science.<\/li>\n<li>The influence of the nutritional ideas of Patrick Holford&#8217;s Optimum Nutrition Programme may be disproportionately influencing thinking. <\/li>\n<li>The charity use inaccurate techniques to determine the need for children to take mineral supplements.<\/li>\n<li>There is inadequate regulation of the nutritional therapists in the UK. <\/li>\n<li>The costs of taking the Food for the Brain&#8217;s approach of nutritional testing and taking supplements would be prohibitively expensive for most parents.<\/li>\n<li>The charity recommends inaccurate techniques to look for &#8216;allergies and intolerances&#8217; in children.<\/li>\n<li>The charity has given out dangerous advice regarding autism and elimination diets.<\/li>\n<li>Food for the Brain lists among its affiliations an American organization that holds strong anti-psychiatry views and has links with Scientology.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have given a more detailed appraisal of these concerns and this can be found on <a href=\"http:\/\/holfordwatch.info\/2007\/07\/17\/what-is-wrong-with-food-for-the-brain\/#more-72\">HolfordWatch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Last Friday, saw Trevor McDonut&#8217;s &#8216;Tonight with&#8217; programme showcase Patrick Holford&#8217;s &#8216;Food for the Brain&#8217; charity and its involvement with a school. The school apparently <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/blog\/2007\/07\/broccoli-for-brains.html\" title=\"Broccoli for Brains\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[120],"class_list":["post-756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-patrick-holford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}