In fairness I haven't watched more than 1.5 programmes, because it's so bad! In one programme an overweight "gut expert" pushes people to choose artificial sweeteners over natural sugars, whilst another informs us we should be reducing our intake of avocado because of its high fat content! Not sure who's funding this programme - perhaps a pharmaceutical organisation? Nonetheless the "experts" chosen are ethnically diverse, so it's at least it's ticking one box! Disappointing...
4 Reviews
Nothing to do with the "Truth"
aolszewska-3611627 February 2019
I can not believe that they can get away with what they are saying in this show. One malnurished and underweight person was told to eat lots of cake every day in order to gain weight. We also hear that there is nothing wrong in bringing cakes and sweets to workplace everyday because sharing it brings people together, therefore it is more beneficial rather than bad. And that's in a country with the biggest obesity problem in Europe. That's just one example. Where do they get these "experts " from?
Do not recommend.
The BBC should be ashamed of themselves
peterbreis30 July 2017
This I presume was supposed to tackle the myths and nonsense surrounding food today.
Instead it perpetuates them in the New Millennial fashion of "Ask everybody who hasn't a clue, and then believe whatever it was you believed before".
I grew totally exasperated at the ancient yellow journalism of heading up stories with variations of the same question posed as a statement, working it over and over again, tediously coming to no considered or factual conclusion and starting all over again to just fill the word count and time allotted.
This is all in response to the same tabloids half reading scientific papers and then misreporting them to stir controversy.
The female presenter is particularly annoying with feigned knowledge that is nothing of the sort and calls up strings of other know nothing minor celebrities who have nothing to contribute except that they are not that other fount of wisdom, people randomly picked up from somewhere. Probably lost in aisle 3 of the supermarket.
The real experts played the extras in this Blockbuster (they knew too much) and only got to speak after a long rambling misstatement of misread and miswritten "facts". They were probably told to remove the sarcasm out of their voices and instead sound and look totally bored. b
Like me they appeared to wish they were anywhere else than this pointless exercise in gum flapping ignorance. Nobody was really interested in anything the experts said, now the presenters were in charge conducting "The Experiments".
I was so wanting out after barely managing to get through the first episode I was willing to chew any of my limbs off "to make a point about raw meat" and be hospitalised far away from this source of infectious senility.
Other than that it was quite good!
Instead it perpetuates them in the New Millennial fashion of "Ask everybody who hasn't a clue, and then believe whatever it was you believed before".
I grew totally exasperated at the ancient yellow journalism of heading up stories with variations of the same question posed as a statement, working it over and over again, tediously coming to no considered or factual conclusion and starting all over again to just fill the word count and time allotted.
This is all in response to the same tabloids half reading scientific papers and then misreporting them to stir controversy.
The female presenter is particularly annoying with feigned knowledge that is nothing of the sort and calls up strings of other know nothing minor celebrities who have nothing to contribute except that they are not that other fount of wisdom, people randomly picked up from somewhere. Probably lost in aisle 3 of the supermarket.
The real experts played the extras in this Blockbuster (they knew too much) and only got to speak after a long rambling misstatement of misread and miswritten "facts". They were probably told to remove the sarcasm out of their voices and instead sound and look totally bored. b
Like me they appeared to wish they were anywhere else than this pointless exercise in gum flapping ignorance. Nobody was really interested in anything the experts said, now the presenters were in charge conducting "The Experiments".
I was so wanting out after barely managing to get through the first episode I was willing to chew any of my limbs off "to make a point about raw meat" and be hospitalised far away from this source of infectious senility.
Other than that it was quite good!
Same old rubbish
lindendeborah27 February 2019
It you wish to stay fat and unhealthy, watch and learn from this program. Just watched a completely biased article against the keto diet, with only opposing, "experts" consulted at all. Inaccurate information about it being bad for diabetes, just consisting of bacon, butter and cheese, causes keto flu and hair loss. No keto expert interview at all. At the end of the program they were eating a huge cake, in a shop with shelves of processed food behind them. As long as there was no saturated fat in it, all is good. An epileptic girl was practically cured by the diet, yet the focus was on her being deprived by not being able to eat cakes at children's parties! Never mind the benefits, life without cake is clearly unsustainable and highly not recommended for everyone else.
I'll enjoy my bacon free meals of salad and olive oil, oily fish, eggs, avocados, coconut oil, green vegetables, nuts and berries, meat and berries and cream, safe in the knowledge that watching BBC rubbish is more likely to give me a heart attack.
I'll enjoy my bacon free meals of salad and olive oil, oily fish, eggs, avocados, coconut oil, green vegetables, nuts and berries, meat and berries and cream, safe in the knowledge that watching BBC rubbish is more likely to give me a heart attack.
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