The Hemsley sisters

[Crackle]

I'm grateful to @brodiej for introducing me to Angry Chef. Here is another brilliant and funny blog post which mentions the Helmsley's and speculates on the origins of all diet guru's

This does link nicely with my previous musings that they are all being stamped out on an automated health-blogger creation unit in Gwyneth Paltrow’s secret underground lair.

http://angry-chef.com/blog/introducing-the-health-blogomator-4000

And there's a link to a Telegraph article on the rise of 'clean' eating and its bad science

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/li...e-hemsleys-the-bad-science-behind-clean-eati/

 

[Lullabelle]

Of course healthy eating is a good thing but how many people actually live a short distance from a market and have time to visit, then after a long busy day at work has the time/energy/want to faff about. Truth be told life is just way too short to make so much fuss unless you have a genuine allergy, health issue.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

Yes we have only a small number of channels so we must limit who presents on them.....

There's loads of tv cooks. Watch the ones you like, ignore the ones you don't. And enjoy the fact there's airtime enough for all of them as people have different tastes.

Oh you, that sort of even handed common sense has no place on the Internet. Down with reasonableness.

 

[DCLane]

SWMBO, who's a Registered Dietitian, is annoyed with these two; little substance to what they're saying and basically the next Gillian McKeith.

 

[swee'pea99]

And there's a link to a Telegraph article on the rise of 'clean' eating and it's bad science

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/li...e-hemsleys-the-bad-science-behind-clean-eati/

In what world are tamari mushrooms (what?), dulse seaweed (what?), Pink Chilli Kraut (what? and avocado apron (what?) 'basics'?

 

[Beebo]

The blog is a bit long but this guy speaks a lot of sense generally about fad diets and 'clean eating'

Here's his take on the Helmsleys

http://angry-chef.com/blog/has-anyone-seen-my-ayurvedic-tongue-scraper

Blimey, that was long but very good.
Bone broth is the next superfood!

 

[Crackle]

I'm resurrecting this thread to note the worrying rise in spiralization. You can even buy it in Morrisons. I've no idea what happened to the Helmsleys, I believe everyone saw through them, which is no surprise as they were stick thing from all that spiralized courgette.

 

[TheDoctor]

As if courgettes don't cause enough misery by their very existence.
Now, spiralised Mars bars, that would be quite a different matter.

 

[Yellow Saddle]

I'm resurrecting this thread to note the worrying rise in spiralization. You can even buy it in Morrisons. I've no idea what happened to the Helmsleys, I believe everyone saw through them, which is no surprise as they were stick thing from all that spiralized courgette.

Good on you. Just as I returned from a holiday, I'm confronted by a junk mail magazine at the letter slot in my door with Ready, Set, Spiralize! on the front page.
Inside there's a host of gadgets, each individually "designed" to spiralise only a single vegetable type, from carrots to rhubarb.
So far I've escaped a spiralised meal but I'm sure someone, somewhere is gonna slap a couple of spiralized carrots on my plate when I'm defenseless and cannot speak my mind.

 

[Crackle]

Can I be pedantic and point out it's the Hemsley sisters - not the Helmsley sisters?

The Helmsley sisters were are very different kettle fish - particularly Leona...

Ooops, my bad.........corrected.

Good on you. Just as I returned from a holiday, I'm confronted by a junk mail magazine at the letter slot in my door with Ready, Set, Spiralize! on the front page.
Inside there's a host of gadgets, each individually "designed" to spiralise only a single vegetable type, from carrots to rhubarb.
So far I've escaped a spiralised meal but I'm sure someone, somewhere is gonna slap a couple of spiralized carrots on my plate when I'm defenseless and cannot speak my mind.

I wish I could say that. I know about the Morrisons stuff because it turned up in my house and I ate it. I expressed my chagrin, naturally but..........I still ate it.