You Are What You Eat: New Year's Detox
The Age
Tuesday January 1, 2008
You Are What You Eat: New Year's Detox
Lifestyle, 8.30pmLemon-lipped Scottish nutritionist Gillian McKeith counts down her 12 pet hates and appears to waste thousands of dollars' worth of food and drink to illustrate how much rubbish her interviewees have been eating. In the case of a heavy-drinking mother and daughter, not only does she set a table groaning under dozens of glasses of beer, wine and spirits to illustrate how much the pair drink, she also unveils a huge platter of fatty bacon (135 rashers, to be precise) to drum into them how many calories they're getting in their grog. The kind of advice that McKeith dishes out is so basic that it verges on the insulting. As a presenter, McKeith is grating and severe. She probably thinks that she's a bit of a character and being wonderfully no-nonsense but you catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar. Of course, honey is high in calories, while McKeith obviously has industrial quantities of vinegar on hand. How else could she keep her mouth all puckered up like that? -- BRAD NEWSOME
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