Rolfe
Adult human female
Anybody see the whole of that show? It didn't seem to be what was listed in the Radio Times.
I only saw the last ten minutes. When I switched over, someone was doing applied kinesiology on a small boy by manipulating his mother's arm. I can't remember whether the boy or his mother was the one holding the glass vial with the potential allergen in it. The mother expressed her hope that this would help get to the bottom of the boy's eczema problem. I sighed and let loose a few choice remarks.
But it wasn't like that. First the presenter summarised the different allergies that different quacks had diagnosed the boy with. All different, except that most had listed "dairy products". Then the boy was trotted along to a reputable private hospital where a real dermatologist examined him. He first stated that he thought it was highly unlikely that the boy had a dairy allergy, or indeed any allergy at all. He did some proper skin-prick tests. No dairy allergy, in fact no allergies. He diagnosed contact irritation, due to a very sensitive skin, and prescribed some treatment. It wasn't necessary to modify the child's diet at all.
The presenter then went back to the quacks and confronted them with the hospital findings. Holland and Barrett said that the Vega testing people only ran a franchise in their stores, nothing to do with us mate, but if they're not doing it right we'll review this. Vega testers themselves said that the advice had only been unofficial, trying to be helpful. But Vega testing was very widely used and they had thousands of satisfied customers. The applied kinesiologist stood by her findings, but said she'd been advising a more varied diet, not cutting anything out. And I forget what the hair analysis people said. But it all really boiled down to "thousands of satisfied customers". According to them.
The presenter then interviewed another doctor who waxed furious about the damage these quacks do, causing all sorts of malnutrition and deficiency diseases by advising impossibly restricted diets. Children with rickets because they got no calcium due to being deprived of milk products for example. Children with simple malnutrition. So bad that they became mentally retarded. (And this is just as I heard at a lecture in 1988, where a case was described where a child was mentally retarded, not growing and grossly hypothyroid due to a Vega tester forbidding just about anything with any actual nutrition in it.)
This was dynamite stuff, and I'm surprised nobody else has mentioned it yet.
Rolfe.
I only saw the last ten minutes. When I switched over, someone was doing applied kinesiology on a small boy by manipulating his mother's arm. I can't remember whether the boy or his mother was the one holding the glass vial with the potential allergen in it. The mother expressed her hope that this would help get to the bottom of the boy's eczema problem. I sighed and let loose a few choice remarks.
But it wasn't like that. First the presenter summarised the different allergies that different quacks had diagnosed the boy with. All different, except that most had listed "dairy products". Then the boy was trotted along to a reputable private hospital where a real dermatologist examined him. He first stated that he thought it was highly unlikely that the boy had a dairy allergy, or indeed any allergy at all. He did some proper skin-prick tests. No dairy allergy, in fact no allergies. He diagnosed contact irritation, due to a very sensitive skin, and prescribed some treatment. It wasn't necessary to modify the child's diet at all.
The presenter then went back to the quacks and confronted them with the hospital findings. Holland and Barrett said that the Vega testing people only ran a franchise in their stores, nothing to do with us mate, but if they're not doing it right we'll review this. Vega testers themselves said that the advice had only been unofficial, trying to be helpful. But Vega testing was very widely used and they had thousands of satisfied customers. The applied kinesiologist stood by her findings, but said she'd been advising a more varied diet, not cutting anything out. And I forget what the hair analysis people said. But it all really boiled down to "thousands of satisfied customers". According to them.
The presenter then interviewed another doctor who waxed furious about the damage these quacks do, causing all sorts of malnutrition and deficiency diseases by advising impossibly restricted diets. Children with rickets because they got no calcium due to being deprived of milk products for example. Children with simple malnutrition. So bad that they became mentally retarded. (And this is just as I heard at a lecture in 1988, where a case was described where a child was mentally retarded, not growing and grossly hypothyroid due to a Vega tester forbidding just about anything with any actual nutrition in it.)
This was dynamite stuff, and I'm surprised nobody else has mentioned it yet.
Rolfe.