Gillian McKeith is a Scottish television presenter, nutritionist and writer. She is the former host in the UK of Channel 4’s You Are What You Eat and Granada Television’s Dr Gillian McKeith’s Feel Fab Forever. As of 2010 she presents Eat Yourself Sexy on the W Network in Canada. She advocates a pescetarian diet high in fruits and vegetables, grains, beans, nuts, and tofu. She has been criticised by health professionals for the validity of her approach and the safety of her recommendations.
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Gillian McKeith is a Scottish television presenter, nutritionist and writer. She is the former host in the UK of Channel 4’s You Are What You Eat and Granada Television’s Dr Gillian McKeith’s Feel Fab Forever. As of 2010 she presents Eat Yourself Sexy on the W Network in Canada. She advocates a pescetarian diet high in fruits and vegetables, grains, beans, nuts, and tofu. McKeith has no qualifications in nutrition or medicine from accredited institutions. She has been criticised by health professionals for the validity of her approach and the safety of her recommendations. She claims to have received an MA in holistic nutrition in 1994 and a PhD in that same field in 1997, both via distance-learning programmes from the non-accredited American Holistic College of Nutrition, later the Clayton College of Natural Health in Birmingham, Alabama. She also claims to be a member of the American Association of Nutritional Consultants, but this association runs no checks on the qualifications of its certified members. In 2007 she agreed with the Advertising Standards Authority to stop using the title \”Doctor\”. McKeith was born in Perth, Scotland, and grew up on a council estate. Her father was a long-term smoker and died of cancer of the oesophagus in 2005.
According to her Channel 4 biography, she was celebrity health reporter for the Joan Rivers show, and when she first moved to the United States she co-presented a syndicated radio show called Healthline Across America. Her book, You Are what You Eat, had sold over two million copies by 2006, and was the most borrowed non-fiction library book in theUK between July 2005 and June 2006. The book derived from the Channel 4 show she presented until 2007, in which she attempted to motivate people to lose weight and change their lifestyle. In each episode of the fourth series, called Gillian Moves In: You Arewhatyoueat.com, two people were chosen to stay with McKeith at a house in London. The subjects were often shown emptying the display sacks into refuse bins. She then offered advice on diet and exercise, and forbade alcohol. She often attributes some of the clients’ health problems to a vitamin or mineral deficiency. There are certain foods she considers to be particularly nutritious, such as tofu, that are particularly expected to be eaten by people on her diet. The participants were expected to stick to their new regime for eight weeks. If they failed to stick, McKeith moved in with them to make sure they followed her advice with them.
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