The 2024 Noteworthy Deaths Thread

[Blown2CV]

Kenty said:

Blown2CV said:

it's sad that someone died and i wouldn't wish harm on anyone, but he did spread nutrition and diet misinformation under the guise of science. I suspect he has been responsible for many many thousands of eating disorders up and down the country. How he was allowed on TV as a regular item i have no idea. Probably a case of popular stuff is more useful to broadcasters than truthful stuff.

What a load of garbage! He promoted a low sugar and 5-2 diet which has saved thousands from type 2 diabetes. Those promoting breakfast cereals, high sugar drinks are the real villains. Just like the Americans were told to eat in the 70’s - look at the majority now, vastly overweight.

He kicked off the nation’s obsession with blood sugar and encouraged many into disordered eating to tackle problems they don’t have.

[Blown2CV]

I’m not going to go on about it as the guy has clearly died and it’s sad, but no one who actually works as in an evidence-led profession surrounding food, diet and nutrition sees him as credible. He preached to the 1980s diet culture mums and grandmas and tried to tell them they were right all along. Quite a sad legacy really.

[Jordie Barretts sock]

I've no idea who he was, but it doesn't seem the smartest move to go hiking up a loaf of hills in 40°.

[Digger]

Blown2CV said:

I’m not going to go on about it as the guy has clearly died and it’s sad, but no one who actually works as in an evidence-led profession surrounding food, diet and nutrition sees him as credible. He preached to the 1980s diet culture mums and grandmas and tried to tell them they were right all along. Quite a sad legacy really.

Wonderful post.

Bravo.

[lauda]

Jordie Barretts sock said:

I've no idea who he was, but it doesn't seem the smartest move to go hiking up a loaf of hills in 40°.

There’s a brown bread joke to be made here but I fear it’s too soon.

[Jordie Barretts sock]

Ahh, the unintentional auto correct.

[Blown2CV]

Digger said:

Blown2CV said:

I’m not going to go on about it as the guy has clearly died and it’s sad, but no one who actually works as in an evidence-led profession surrounding food, diet and nutrition sees him as credible. He preached to the 1980s diet culture mums and grandmas and tried to tell them they were right all along. Quite a sad legacy really.

Wonderful post.

Bravo.

can't tell if you're being genuine or sarcastic.

[anonymoususer]

Simon Cowell - the Wildlife SOS chap NOT he of the X Factor !
72 - Cancer

To those of us who watch early morning TV this man has brought us some truly heart warming stories of wildlife being rescued.
Mr Cowell was a simple down to earth chap whose care and compassion for injured wildlife shone through.
I'm genuinely saddened at this


https://www.thesun.co.uk/tv/28419121/simon-cowell-...

[Nethybridge]

Blown2CV said:

Digger said:

Blown2CV said:

I’m not going to go on about it as the guy has clearly died and it’s sad, but no one who actually works as in an evidence-led profession surrounding food, diet and nutrition sees him as credible. He preached to the 1980s diet culture mums and grandmas and tried to tell them they were right all along. Quite a sad legacy really.

Wonderful post.

Bravo.

can't tell if you're being genuine or sarcastic.

Will someone tell him.

[BenS94]

anonymoususer said:

Simon Cowell - the Wildlife SOS chap NOT he of the X Factor !
72 - Cancer

To those of us who watch early morning TV this man has brought us some truly heart warming stories of wildlife being rescued.
Mr Cowell was a simple down to earth chap whose care and compassion for injured wildlife shone through.
I'm genuinely saddened at this


https://www.thesun.co.uk/tv/28419121/simon-cowell-...

Lovely bloke, very very sad. There is still a long way to go to achieve his goal of an all new state of the art facility. The last I heard was him saying he has weeks left... didn't expect him gone so soon.

[Rusty Old-Banger]

Blown2CV said:

I’m not going to go on about it as the guy has clearly died and it’s sad, but no one who actually works as in an evidence-led profession surrounding food, diet and nutrition sees him as credible. He preached to the 1980s diet culture mums and grandmas and tried to tell them they were right all along. Quite a sad legacy really.

Citation needed. No-one?

[Blown2CV]

Rusty Old-Banger said:

Blown2CV said:

I’m not going to go on about it as the guy has clearly died and it’s sad, but no one who actually works as in an evidence-led profession surrounding food, diet and nutrition sees him as credible. He preached to the 1980s diet culture mums and grandmas and tried to tell them they were right all along. Quite a sad legacy really.

Citation needed. No-one?

OK those who believe you have to only eat 700 calories a day in order to lose weight and don't have to care about sustainable changes to your life, they love him. Those that think if you deprive yourself of any foods you like, that won't replace one type of disordered eating with another that you created on purpose, they like him too. Finally those who want to sell products to healthy non-insulin-resistant people to measure and obsess over their blood sugar and insulin levels, they are also big fans.

I'd argue none of those people actually fit the mould of evidence-based though, even though they might like to believe they do (or their public image depends upon other people believing they do). There is a lot of fking nonsense, quackery, con-artistry, misinfo and lies out there about food and nutrition. There are people out there who speak the uncomfortable truths, and there are people who benefit from the bullst.

[Nethybridge]

I think we all agree that the simple habit of eating less,
Is a reasonable way to the promise land of losing weight,
Unless this is bad medical advice, is it inherently dangerous
To reduce calorie intake and exercise more ?

[Sylvia Plath]

[bigothunter]

Nethybridge said:

I think we all agree that the simple habit of eating less,
Is a reasonable way to the promise land of losing weight,
Unless this is bad medical advice, is it inherently dangerous
To reduce calorie intake and exercise more ?

[Sylvia Plath]

Who is that fat bast*rd ?

[Alexei Sayle]

[CharlesdeGaulle]

bigothunter said:

Nethybridge said:

I think we all agree that the simple habit of eating less,
Is a reasonable way to the promise land of losing weight,
Unless this is bad medical advice, is it inherently dangerous
To reduce calorie intake and exercise more ?

[Sylvia Plath]

Who is that fat bast*rd ?

[Alexei Sayle]

I'm making the (perhaps unfair) assumption that our friend Blown2CV is himself a bit of a chubster.

[witteringon]

Back on topic.

Larry Page, pop singer (Larry Page the Teenage Rage), Manager (the Kinks, The Troggs), record label owner (Page One Records, Penny Farthing Records), producer (inc. Blue is the Colour, the Chelsea 'anthem'), own orchestra (The Larry Page Orchestra), among other things!

Died 18th April, aged 87, apparently. Not widely reported.

[anonymoususer]

witteringon said:

Back on topic.

Larry Page, pop singer (Larry Page the Teenage Rage), Manager (the Kinks, The Troggs), record label owner (Page One Records, Penny Farthing Records), producer (inc. Blue is the Colour, the Chelsea 'anthem'), own orchestra (The Larry Page Orchestra), among other things!

Died 18th April, aged 87, apparently. Not widely reported.

I had heard of him via the Kinks connection and as you say not widely reported

[DodgyGeezer]

Arthur ‘Gaps’ Hendrickson - The Selecter

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c06618ln7xlo

[Athlon]

DodgyGeezer said:

Arthur ‘Gaps’ Hendrickson - The Selecter

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c06618ln7xlo

Big loss, part of my musical youth. R.I.P. Gaps

[Eric Mc]

French actress, singer, model and 1960s icon Francoise Hardy passed away at 80. For us petrol heads of a certain age, her most well known appearance was as the "groupie" - and Nicola Barlini's "sort of" girlfriend - in the movie "Grand Prix".

They have the best bit of dialogue in the whole film.






No prizes for guessing whose helmet she's wearing.