Celebrity chef Pete Evans is blaming Wi-Fi for health issues in his latest unconventional claim, telling followers he protects his family from electromagnetic fields at home.
The Paleo diet leader has also sprung to the defence of his friend, ABC TV’s Catalyst journalist Dr Maryanne Demasi, who has been suspended over her controversial “Wi-Fried” episode that aired earlier this year.
The show was found to have breached editorial standards by favouring claims Wi-Fi causes health problems and giving little airtime to the scientific consensus that there’s no evidence of harm.
Last night, the TV chef posted a message on his Facebook page encouraging his 1.5 million followers to back a campaign imploring the ABC to reinstate Dr Demasi. Pete has previously appeared on an episode she fronted about low-carb diets.
“Maryanne is a journalist that is willing to tell the truth to help let Australians make wiser choices with the information she thoroughly investigates and shares,” he writes. “I am proud to call her my friend, and what is happening to her at the moment is unfair on so many levels.”
The Channel 7 My Kitchen Rules host waded into the Wi-Fi issue after making headlines last week by claiming regular sunscreen is full of “poisonous chemicals” and saying he generally goes into the sun without it or, during prolonged exposure, using a non-TGA approved skin product called Surf Mud (his claims about sunscreens were first exposed by The Weekly in a feature last year.
Pete Evans’ second book, Bubba Yum Yum: The Paleo Way.
Anti-vaccination claims have been posted on his Facebook page by some followers this week – although Pete did not post his personal views on this issue.
After a question on Pete’s opinion on children being vaccinated went unanswered, a follower called Katie wrote in reply, “I doubt you’ll get a response on that. [Pete] would know full well how vilified people get for speaking out against vaccines (even though there are damn good reasons to), so I think he’d be smart enough to stay away from that topic – for now anyway.”
In an interview with Fairfax Media last year, the TV chef reportedly suggested more research was needed into childhood vaccinations and autism. Ironically, childhood vaccines have been subject to an uncommonly large amount of research because of a fraudulent and now retracted 1998 study linking MMR to autism.
Pete has previously suggested the official Australian Dietary Guidelines have contributed to a rise in autism in children – a claim dismissed as unfounded by medical experts.
He has also expressed anti-fluoride views and one of his cookbooks includes claims that a Paleo diet can help with various health conditions, including “cancer remissions/tumour shrinkage”.
In a Q&A session on his Facebook page earlier this week, Pete Evans wrote “EMFS [electromagnetic fields] are causing a lot of issues for people” in response to a follower’s question about whether he would be making public “the dangers of Wi-Fi in our schools and houses”.
“We…turn off Wi-Fi at night at home and have our house EMF friendly,” he wrote. “If people have not educated themselves on this yet, then I urge them to do so as well. EMFS are causing a lot of issues for people.”
When it first emerged Dr Demasi had been suspended last week, Pete wrote, “SO SAD! One of our most professional and courageous journalists that we have in our country, Maryanne Demasi, has just been suspend [sic] from her job for sharing the TRUTH.”
Pete appeared on a Catalyst episode by Dr Demasi about low carb diets in 2014. During the program, he claimed coconut oil was a source of monounsaturated fats: a claim that the ABC later corrected. Coconut oil is very high in saturated fat and contains little monounsaturated fat.
A controversial report on statins by Dr Demasi in 2013 also provoked heavy criticism from the medical and scientific community and was later found to have breached standards on impartiality.
No matter where you are, there is almost always a girl code.
Which is evidenced by this little girl’s answer to her test question!
The girl’s mum posted her answer to the Huffington Post’s facebook last week, writing, “My daughter’s answer a problem on her 4TH GRADE math problem last night. #girlcodetrumpscommoncore”.
The question, which asks the students to figure out “who’s dating who” in a complicated logic question, got an unexpected answer when the girl wrote “I can’t answer this problem because my mom says acoording [sic] to girl code you [shouldn’t] date a friend’s [e]x boyfriend.”
They never took a breath or died soon after they were born, but they will live in their parents’ hearts forever.
We are taking a moment to celebrate these beautiful babies and all those who were born sleeping.
Paul Murray and Sian Horstead’s gorgeous son Leo passed away 34 hours after he was born in August, 2012.
Heartfelt arranged for these beautiful portraits of Leo to be taken so his proud mum and dad had something to remember him by.
Little Leo was perfect in every way.
Natalie Morgan shared these images of her stillborn daughter Eleanor on her Facebook page earlier this month.
Lovely Eleanor was born sleeping on September 11.
“All I ask of you is when you have your dark moments with your baby – when you’re at your wits’ end and feel like you can’t go on anymore when you’re only getting an hour or two of sleep a night – instead of begging your child to go to sleep and wallowing in your frustration and exhaustion, say a prayer of gratitude for your child, as difficult as it may be in that moment.”
“And if you would, say a prayer for me and all the mothers whose children were taken from them too soon. Say a prayer for my sweet, sweet Eleanor who never got to know life outside my womb.”
What’s a distiller to do when he finds himself with a quarter of a ton of surplus Yarra Valley shiraz grapes?
Four Pillars gin man Cameron Mackenzie destemmed them, steeped them in gin for eight weeks, pressed the fruit, then added more gin.
The result is Bloody Shiraz Gin, an unfiltered, no-other-additives beauty that packs a potent purple punch at 37.8 per cent alcohol.
Its colour is reminiscent of sloe gin, but that’s where the similarities end. “I’ve never been a huge fan of sloe gin,” says Mackenzie. “It’s incredibly tart and acidic and [the flavour of the fruit] overpowers the gin. It becomes a liqueur.”
The spice of the shiraz grapes and the sharp citrus notes of the gin combine to create a highly smashable winter warmer best drunk straight, Mackenzie says, over ice. Or try it as a G&T – diluted with tonic, the gin’s colour changes to a vibrant acrylic pink.
Bloody Shiraz Gin is available online, from Four Pillars’ distillery in Healesville, Victoria, and from select retailers.
It was a bit of a special day on the job for Prince William, as his Granny Queen Elizabeth decided to drop in for a visit!
The Queen and Prince Philip were greeted by their excited grandson William when they popped in to the new East Anglian Air Ambulance Base at Cambridge Airport on Wednesday.
The helicopter pilot royal welcomed both his grandparents with open arms and happily showed them around.
The Queen wore a pale pink ensemble and matching hat for the tour, as William, complete with and ID patch that said William Wales.
Welcome to my work, Granny!
He introduced the monarch to some of his co-workers, who explained how the operations at the ambulance base actually worked.
Meanwhile, the Duke of Cambridge’s colleagues revealed that they bought him a funny gift as a welcome present.
Queen Elizabeth gets the royal rundown on William’s aircraft duties in the clip below. Post continues!
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Wills reportedly has a great relationship with his colleagues.
The team bought him what every worker needs: an office mug with his name on it!
Except it wasn’t really his name… The cheeky workers had bought the Prince, an avid dance music fan, a mug that said Will.i.am, after the lead singer of the Black Eyed Peas.
Showing around your grandparents is serious stuff.
The Queen looked very proud of her grandson!
Although the mug wasn’t out of the cupboard for all to see when Queen Elizabeth arrived, his colleague Dr Pam Crispin confirmed its existence.
“We got him a mug before he arrived and it says, ‘Will.i.am.’ I wasn’t around when he received it, but I’m sure he’s pleased just to have his own mug.” she said.
Will DOES look pleased to have his own mug!
Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip seem impressed with the helicopter that William flies.
Pam also confessed to her embarrassment when the royal father of two discovered what her own mug said.
“It’s a bit embarrassing, Jemma, one of the paramedics and I – she’s ‘Princess Jemma’ and I’m ‘Princess Pammie’ – and we have mugs with those names, but he doesn’t mind.”
William isn’t the only one who loves aircraft. Check out Prince George getting excited at the Royal International Air Tattoo in the video below. Post continues.
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Pam confirmed what a joy it was to have the 34-year-old prince working by their side.
“William is a great pilot, he’s a charming person, but most importantly, he’s a really great team player,” she confessed.
“He’s settled into the team really well and he is just one of us – I know that sounds ridiculous – but he is just one of us.”
A 35-year-old woman fell to her death at the Grand Canyon, hours after she posted a photo of herself sitting on the edge of a cliff.
Colleen Burns was hiking the South Kaibab Trail on Friday with two friends when she stepped aside to make way for another hiker and then lost her balance, according to one of the friends, Jessica Roman.
Colleen, a marketing director from Orlando, Florida, was at the edge of Ooh Aah Point when she fell backwards off the edge.
Park rangers found her body 120m below.
She had uploaded a chilling photo the night before to her Instagram, with the caption: “That view tho (sic)”.
Her mother, Catherine, told People magazine she’d been worried after seeing her daughter’s photo because she herself was afraid of heights.
“I saw the last photo she posted before she died, where she is looking at the canyon, and it put a chill through my body because I’m afraid of heights and I was afraid for her,” she said.
“I shut down my computer because it freaked me out so much. And then the next day we lost her.”
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