Dr John Briffa is missing
It seems only yesterday that I was saying I was worried about Dr John Briffa.
I hope he did not take umbrage for now it seems that Dr John Briffa has gone missing. Well, he may not have (he is still here promoting vitamin and mineral pills) but his blog has. Maybe he felt weighed down by the furore that greeted his extraordinary post on MMR. Those missing him can always refresh their memories by popping over to this wide-ranging Briffa round up where some of his finest writing is preserved.
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11 Comments:
Don't panic.
He's fine today in The Observer Food Magazine approving of Bambu Coffee as it "is rich in oligosaccharides that feed "good" bacteria in the colon", oat milk to prevent gut symptoms and nasal/sinus congestion commonly associated with dairy sensitivity, green tea "linked with a reduced risk of certain kinds of cancer (including breast cancer) but slagging off Complan and risotto rice.
I hope I have helped to quell your sense of unease and potential loss, John
His website is up again now. Dr Briffa is opinionated but writes very well.
mr butterscotch said...
His website is up again now. Dr Briffa is opinionated but writes very well.
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Well, if it is up, I can't find it. Do tell where it is.
John
John,
It's up at the moment (23:42GMT)
here
I particularly commend the "Sunburn" article, together with this excellent commentary.
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One of Dr Briffa's more startling posts, which I think appeared just days before he "featured" on NHS Blog Doctor recently, was the one where Dr B explained how he sometimes referred patients to an "applied kinesiology" practitioner.
(For those interested, the thread also featured an extended face-off between Dr Briffa and noted dietitian Catherine Collins)
It would be sad indeed if such dogma-challenging stuff were to disappear from the blogosphere.
Thankfully it is still accessible, at least from casa Aust.
Temporary glitch. A useful online tool for checking such things is Down for everyone or just me?
mr butterscotch said...
His website is up again now. Dr Briffa is opinionated but writes very well.
Well, anyone with a modicum of nutrition or medical knowledge can paraphrase a clinical paper- so yes, Dr Briffa 'writes well'.
The key problem with Dr Briffa is placing his comments in context so the worried well can act on his warnings rather than fetish about whether each and every food is the equivalent of a nutritional Russian roulette.
Drinking water gives you bladder cancer, but drinking coffee is A OK. Guess thats a milky rather than watery Starbucks then, but what about the milky IGF-1? Plus all that carb from milk lactose, when carbs are The Devils Work..
Yes. Dr Briffa. The human equivalent of the Curates Egg (free range, of course)
Re UK Dietitian's last, I have written a long and boring post here about risk and context, specifically in connection with Dr Briffa's comments on how "drinking tap water is associated with an increased cancer risk"
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