Gillian McKeith

Gillian McKeith is a Scottish nutritionist, author, and television presenter. She has written a number of books, including You Are What You Eat, Dr Gillian McKeith's Living Food for Health and The Miracle Superfood: Wild Blue-Green Algae. Her television work includes Channel 4's You Are What You Eat, Granada Television's Dr Gillian McKeith's Feel Fab Forever and a number of slots on shows such as ITV's This Morning and BBC1's Good Morning. She recently helped Scottish heavy-weight singer, Michelle McManus lose seven stone (44kg).

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Scottish - Nutritionist - Channel 4 - Granada Television - ITV - BBC1

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Her general philosophy is based on advice to exercise more, and to reduce processed and high-calorie foods in favour of organic fruits and vegetables. She is a proponent of colonic irrigation and of her proprietory 'living food' supplements, said to aid digestion by providing enzymes. She also claims that yeast is harmful and that the colours of foods are significant.

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Calorie - Organic - Colonic irrigation - Digestion - Enzymes - Yeast

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The factual basis of many of her medical procedures (for instance, diagnosis of nutritional deficiency by stool and tongue inspection) and biological statements (such as the claim that eating chlorophyll will oxygenate the blood) has been strongly disputed as inaccurate or untrue. Critics have included John Garrow, Emeritus Professor of Human Nutrition, University of London; GP and journalist Dr Ben Goldacre (in The Guardian's Bad Science column); Edzard Ernst, University of Exeter professor of complementary medicine; and Amanda Wynne of the British Dietetic Association (in The Sun).

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Nutritional deficiency - Stool - Tongue - Chlorophyll - Blood - Emeritus Professor - University of London - GP - Ben Goldacre - The Guardian - University of Exeter - Complementary medicine - British Dietetic Association - The Sun

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