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(For yesterday, see eldar; it's got pictures and everything.)

Last night was dire. I'm not going to say "it was so hot" because technically it wasn't. That is, if you went outside and took the temperature it would have been something perfectly comfortable. The problem was that it was very sticky and there was no breeze. I woke up at 01:40 dripping wet. I ended up sleeping on the couch because there was a breeze in the living room :/

I woke up to discover what looks like a return of pinkeye. In both eyes. WTF?! Still have eye drops, thankfully. And more contacts.

I feel grouchy and horrible.

I watched a bit of that show "You Are What You Eat" a few weeks ago and looked at the website. It struck me as being completely unscientific (colonic irrigation is NOT recommended for the vast majority of people, and are those 'tests' she does proven to show anything?). Plus the diet was your usual detox nonsense with lots of pseudoscience about enzymes, though of course it worked as they were dealing with very obese people. Any decrease in calories and increase in nutritious food will make them look and feel better.

Anyway I was amused today when I discovered (via another forum) that "Dr" McKeith's degree is bogus. :-) She got it by post from an unaccredited college in Alabama!!

(BTW, I've been to a proper nutritionist--the dietician at my endocrinologist's practice--so I know how they work. They DON'T just give you a prescriptive diet; what they do is have you describe your existing diet and then modify it to make it healthier. If you work with existing eating habits, it's easier to produce a diet the patient can stick to. And in a blow for food combining theories [i.e. the idea that carbohydrate and protein should be eaten at separate times], you are supposed to combine carbs and protein as it slows the release of glucose into the blood. So you don't eat a plate of pasta; you eat a small portion of pasta and a piece of chicken. Etc. It was all very sensible: yes, you have to limit the amount of carbohydrate you eat, but it was presented as a matter of making choices, and limiting high-GI foods [especially on their own] but not trying to eliminate them completely as it's unrealistic.)

This sort of nonsense is widespread though--look at Dr John Briffa's column in the Observer. If you believe his column almost everything's bad for you.