Is food guru Dr Gillian McKeith really a Quack and a danger to our health?

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Is food guru Dr Gillian McKeith really a Quack and a danger to our health?

Dr Gillian McKeith is Britain's newest health and nutrition guru. Her weekly TV programme You Are What You Eat, with its obsessive interest in the excrement of the overweight and unhealthy, boasts a regular audience of four million who lap up the advice of a woman billed as 'the world's most acclaimed nutritionist'.

Stick thin, with a slight American drawl, McKeith reduces mothers to tears for practising what she calls food abuse on their junkfoodmunching children, and tells obese people that their eating habits will kill them.

Her diagnostic tools include a tongue scrape, a quick pummel of the spleen and a thorough inspection of her victim's faeces. Her favourite treatment is colonic irrigation. It is an uncompromising approach which has won many fans and she is being hailed as the saviour of Britain's growing army of overweight people. Her book of the series is top of the UK bestsellers' list and there's to be a second series of her show.

But then who would not be impressed by a CV listing degrees and diplomas from British and American Universities and specialist health foundations, together with boasts about her role as adviser to Hollywood stars such as Sylvester Stallone, Demi Moore, Joan Rivers, Michelle Pfeiffer and Madonna?

Neither could anyone fault her commercial acumen. Fans can sign on to her website for £29 a quarter. There they can buy from her range of instant energy-boost drinks, love bars to enhance clients' love lives and pills designed to cure everything from stress to fat problems and allergies. She offers allergy testing – by post – costing up to £260. Others, if they can stand a wait of around two years, can visit the McKeith Clinic in London for an examination by the expert herself.

If it all seems to good to be true, that's because itmay well be. Today The Mail on Sunday can reveal that far from being the saviour of the obese and desperate, Gillian McKeith is, at best, a woman who seriously believes her message to be true and has misrepresented her qualifications to help her get that message across. At worst, she is a dangerous quack.

Her CV has included a diploma pending' from a college which says she has never studied there and her claims of national broadcasting status on US radio are at best exaggerated.

Her advice, which sees whole food groups stripped from the diet, has so incensed and worried some licensed dietitians that their professional body plans to distribute fact sheets to counteract some of her more outlandish claims. It has already complained to Channel 4.

John Garrow, professor emeritus in human nutrition at London University, retired head of nutrition at St Bartholomew's Hospital and now chairman of the internet medical service Healthwatch, has no doubts about McKeith.

He said: 'In my view Dr Gillian McKeith is a charlatan. For all I know she may genuinely believe what she says and has convinced herself she is giving the truth but there is no scientific basis in anything she says.

'Four years ago, when she came to Britain with her book Living Health, I challenged her to show me one piece of proof to back up what she was saying. I wanted her to show me one published paper to prove that she is, as she claims, a scientist doing research and studies.

'I said I would pay her £1,000 and apologise for my remarks. That money is still on the table. Her husband phoned me claiming I was defaming her so I said sue me. I'm still waiting. One of the programmes showed her prodding at the abdomen of a very large lady saying she could feel her intestines were inflamed. That is impossible. There is a large layer of fat between you and any intestines – it would be like trying to guess what's under a mattress.'

Amanda Wynne, senior dietician of the British Dietetics Association, said: 'We are appalled. I think it is obvious she hasn't a clue about nutrition. In fact her advice, if followed to the limit, could be dangerous. Her TV programme takes obese people and puts them on a crash diet that is very hazardous to health.

'I am also shocked at the services she offers on her website, particularly for allergy testing. People who are seriously food allergic may have a very severe reaction and should be tested in hospital or allergy clinics . . . not by post.' Ms Wynne says McKeith's recommendation to replace protein, carbohydrates and dairy products with a diet of fruit and vegetables combined with colonic irrigation – not administered by a doctor – can put severe strain on the heart and kidneys, particularly in the seriously obese.

Given that she has attracted such damning criticism, it is astonishing that McKeith has become a revered name in many British homes. So who is Dr Gillian McKeith?

She was born in 1959 in Perth, Scotland. Her father was a civil servant and her mother an office worker. In interviews she says she grew up on a council estate eating the junk food she now abhors and studied for a nutrition degree immediately after graduating in languages and business from Edinburgh University 22 years ago.

She began her assault on Britain five years ago with a series of interviews which boasted of her stint as resident health expert on the Joan Rivers Show and her nationally syndicated Healthline Across America radio show. She namedropped a host of US stars implying that they consulted her regularly for advice and treatment.

Soon she was given slots on Granada TV and daytime shows on ITV and BBC1. Her books, including Living Food For Health and The Miracle Superfood: Wild Blue-Green Algae advocate the use of supplements, raw food, beans, nuts, tofu and broccoli seed sprouts. She has little time for processed foods, red meat and dairy products. Her website lists seven magazines that she writes for and adds: 'Dr McKeith is a practising Clinical Nutritionist and Director of the McKeith Clinic in London where she conducts key clinical research, publishes findings and consults with patients at her busy practice.' But what exactly are Dr McKeith's qualifications? She has claimed to have a PhD from the American College of Nutrition in Birmingham, Alabama. There is indeed a reputable college of this name based in Florida but it does not award degrees.

The truth is that her PhD was gained via a 'distance learning' programme at a non-accredited college formerly known as The American College of Holistic Nutrition, which is in Alabama but is now known as Clayton College of Natural Health.

One state, Oregon, has taken a particularly strong stand against what it regards as non-accredited qualifications and has included Clayton College on its list of 'illegal degrees'.

No holder of such a degree would be allowed to practise as a professional clinical nutritionist in that state.

In the list of qualifications that was given on her management company's website (but has since been removed) Dr McKeith also claimed to have a diploma pending from The Australasian College of Health Science, in Portland. In fact the college's Heather Bailey said: 'She has been in contact with us but has never officially enrolled.' Last week Dr McKeith's lawyers claimed her enrolment was 'deliberately kept confidential' and that she begins her course next month.

As for the Masters degree in Health Systems Management from the University of Pennsylvania which was also listed on her website, although she did attend the university her degree was a two-year course in International Relations.

The only evidence we can find of the Dr McKeith's 'nationally syndicated radio show' in America are local shows one of which was broadcast from a casino in Atlantic City to the Philadelphia metro area. In New York another one-hour show aired weekly on a small Christian station where she had to pay for the airtime. 'She still owes us money,' said WMCA Radio's Joyce Fowler.

As for her role as Healthy Living expert for The Joan Rivers Television Show, fellow Briton Richard Meineards – who made regular appearances as Rivers' Royal expert – didn't remember her.

Nor could Rivers' long-time publicist Richard Grant. He said: 'I've been with Joan for 30 years and have never heard of her.' The Museum of TV and Radio in Beverly Hills which has the guest list for every episode of the Joan Rivers Show between 1989-1993 could find no record of Gillian McKeith. She last week claimed to have tapes of her contributions to the show and said 'they speak for themselves'.

McKeith met her American husband, lawyer Howard Magaziner, in Edinburgh where he was spending a year studying. At the time he ran an extremely successful chain of health food shops in the United States with which she was to become involved.

The company they now run from their Hampstead home had a turnover of almost £900,000 last year but the business they ran in 1996 spiralled into debt before declaring insolvency owing $117,000. It seems that this was the spur for McKeith to try out her eccentric nutrition theories on the British public. But what of the claim that she 'is constantly conducting and reporting clinical research' in order to bring new organic supplements to website clients. Dieticians and scientists who have looked into this claim have not found a single research paper published in a reputable scientific journal.

McKeith's lawyers said last week that the research she conducts is from her own clients and is reported, 'in health magazines, books and through her seminars'.

McKeith's fans may find all this hard to swallow but other health professionals have already condemned her. She is listed on Quackwatch, an American internet site founded by a doctor, which puts her among a group of practising nutritionists to be avoided.

Sadly for those fans who might want to discover the truth for themselves it is almost impossible to contact the McKeith Clinic. Callers hear a recorded message inviting them to join the Dr McKeith Club online or to phone another number – the distribution company for the goods she peddles by post.

Asked for a number for the clinic a woman there said: 'Dr McKeith is taking no new patients at the moment.'

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