Why I despise Gillian McKeith

edited November 2007 in Chit chat
Bogus PhD, bogus scientific claims, nasty attitude towards people she's supposed to be helping.

This article says it all really:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/food/Story/0,,2011095,00.html

God, I really can't stand the woman. Why do these TV programs like This Morning keep having her on, dishing out dodgy advice? Can't they see she's a fake?
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  • edited November 2007
    oh, is she the "poo doctor"?

    I've never seen any of her shows, but just picked up on her pretend qualifications from a few comedy shows, such as Have I Got News For You, oh, and I remember on b3ta.com's weekly e-mail, some website published a very sarccy apology for doubting her qualifications, which was quite funny.

    I'll read that article in a mo, but my tea is ready, it's not just any pizza it's M&S pizza :D
  • edited November 2007
    we usually get the odd email round work discrediting these so called diet doctors, it helps the GP's out when people try bringing in turds to show them.
  • edited November 2007
    I've never heard of the woman, but quackery like this isn't all that uncommon - Ph.Ds that aren't doctorates but Piled higher and Deeper (in the bullshit department).

    The Grauniad article hits it right on the head. I remember reading a book my mother had, written by an actual real doctor which went to lengths to burst the quackery over health foods that became so fashionable starting in the late 1980s. It sounds like this woman is espousing the same discredited advice that my mother's book was firmly rubbishing.

    And yes, beer, ready meals and burgers can be part of a healthy diet. There's no such thing as bad foods, only bad diets.
  • edited November 2007
    I don’t watch this Gillian McKeith, but I have caught fragments of her show.

    I usually involves her examining the victims poo.

    For runny poo she says.
    "No wonder your poo is runny look at your diet"

    For hard poo she says.
    "No wonder your poo is hard look at your diet".

    For normal poo she says.
    "No wonder your poo smells like that look at your diet".

    Or for normal but non smelly poo she says:
    "No wonder your poo is that colour look at your diet"


    I don’t think it matters what the victim’s poo is like Gillian seems to want to criticise it.

    It was then I began to realise that this woman does not know what she is talking about.


    It makes me mad then people like this tout the title Ph.D or Dr like this. As a researcher studying for my PhD in a well respected institution I appreciate how hard it can be to get one. I believe the way Gillian touts the Ph.D. and Dr title is grotesque and vulgar. It's also loosing the credibility that a PhD once had. She should be banned from TV and publishing she is a menace to science.

    Channel four are famous for doing this though. Didn’t Carroll Vorderman get a Third for her Maths degree at Cambridge. From what I understand she spent most of her university life pissed up or on her back.
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  • edited November 2007
    b3ta had a weekly image challenge dedicated to her:

    http://www.b3ta.com/challenge/gillian_mckeith/
  • edited November 2007
    Are you serious? There's actually a TV programme where a woman examines people's faecal output! I'm seriously worried about the mental state of some of the poor bastards in this world. :confused: :lol:

    Necros.
  • edited November 2007
    Necros wrote: »
    Are you serious? There's actually a TV programme where a woman examines people's faecal output! I'm seriously worried about the mental state of some of the poor bastards in this world. :confused: :lol:

    Necros.

    There's a whole song about it in the Scrubs musical episode.

  • edited November 2007
    If anyones stupid enough to go on a program where they go through their poo th en it serves them right if shes not a qualified doctor and theyre getting dodgy advice.

    Why the hell would you go on tv for someone to sift through your shit to tell you what problems you have ? Surely the first problem would be going on the show in the first place !
  • edited November 2007
    Hey, could be worse. There could be a daytime program where members of the public get their ailments examined by a doctor in the middle of the street.

    Oh wait. There is one.

    Complete with examinations in the middle of the chuffing street.
  • edited November 2007
    NickH wrote: »
    There's a whole song about it in the Scrubs musical episode.
    Weird. I haven't seen that one before. Is it a new episode?
  • edited November 2007
    Necros wrote: »
    Weird. I haven't seen that one before. Is it a new episode?

    Season 6. Was recently shown on E4.
  • edited November 2007
    Scottie_uk wrote: »

    Channel four are famous for doing this though. Didn?t Carroll Vorderman get a Third for her Maths degree at Cambridge. From what I understand she spent most of her university life pissed up or on her back.

    Well, you wouldn't need a first class degree to be good at mental arithmetic even I can get the numbers question right sometimes
  • edited November 2007
    All this talk of poo really needs a quick play of this:

    http://www.alioth.net/tmp/crs.mp3
  • edited November 2007
    Scottie_uk wrote: »
    I don?t watch this Gillian McKeith, but I have caught fragments of her show.

    I usually involves her examining the victims poo.

    For runny poo she says.
    "No wonder your poo is runny look at your diet"

    For hard poo she says.
    "No wonder your poo is hard look at your diet".

    For normal poo she says.
    "No wonder your poo smells like that look at your diet".

    Or for normal but non smelly poo she says:
    "No wonder your poo is that colour look at your diet"


    I don?t think it matters what the victim?s poo is like Gillian seems to want to criticise it.

    She probably eats all the poo up afterwards. When no one's looking.
  • edited November 2007
    Zagreb wrote: »
    She probably eats all the poo up afterwards. When no one's looking.

    Have you seen this?? http://www2.b3ta.com/host/creative/24656/1171509065.gif

    This animation is also quite funny:
    http://www.stablesound.co.uk/poo.php[/QUOTE]
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  • edited November 2007
    NickH wrote: »
    Hey, could be worse. There could be a daytime program where members of the public get their ailments examined by a doctor in the middle of the street.

    Oh wait. There is one.

    Complete with examinations in the middle of the chuffing street.

    that fucking irks me that program. go to your GP its FREE, ok you have to book an appointment and turn up in his or hers working hours, the NHS hasn't gotton to that stage yet where your family doctor will wander the streets looking for you.

    my TV license is paying these doctors to dish out advise, don't i already pay for that in my tax.

    tbh is you are too dubm to go to the doctors you deserve to die. and its not like they are visiting the diasabled in their homes these muppets are donig the shopping, the lazy fucktards!!!

    'i have massive chest pains, but i thought i'd do a bit of shopping instead' arghhh, thud
  • edited November 2007
    I am interested why people agree to be on this show. You can see why some chav thinks going on Jeremy Kyle is 'good' as he'll stay in a hotel for a night, get a bit of money for appearing and these chavs arent the brightest.

    But a lot of people she stops seem 'normal', why would they want their bits showing on camera or admitting they have ingrowing arse hair or some great bit spot on their cock etc ? If i had any of those problems they showed, eg someones toe gone totally mouldy or some weird scab i would go to my local GP in privacy not on TV out to 5 million homes etc !

    Weird.
  • edited November 2007
    mile wrote: »
    that fucking irks me that program. go to your GP its FREE, ok you have to book an appointment and turn up in his or hers working hours, the NHS hasn't gotton to that stage yet where your family doctor will wander the streets looking for you.

    my TV license is paying these doctors to dish out advise, don't i already pay for that in my tax.

    tbh is you are too dubm to go to the doctors you deserve to die. and its not like they are visiting the diasabled in their homes these muppets are donig the shopping, the lazy fucktards!!!

    'i have massive chest pains, but i thought i'd do a bit of shopping instead' arghhh, thud

    :lol: :lol:

    It's good to see you're over that lovey-dovey stage and are back to your old self!
  • edited November 2007
    It gets even worse, according to Private Eye some of the obscure foods she suggests people buy are actually imported into Britain by a company owned by her. It's the equivalent of asking Cadburys whether you should buy a bar of chocolate.

    Maybe her biggest crime though, beyond just the quackery, is the speed with which she suggests people lose weight. If you drop 10 kilos in a few weeks then you're probably doing it in an unhealthy way.

    The officially recommended way to lose weight (if you need to) is to do it slowly but steadily over the course of a year or more, using a lifestyle that you will find relatively easy to stick to for the rest of your life (ie food you enjoy eating, exercise you enjoy taking).
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