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Gillian McKeith (born 28 September 1959) is a Scottish television presenter 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'', and as of 2010 presents ''Eat Yourself Sexy'' on the W Network in Canada. She is the author of several books about nutrition, including ''You Are What You Eat'' (2004), and ''Dr Gillian McKeith's Ultimate Health Plan'' (2006). McKeith advocates a pescetarian diet high in fruits and vegetables, grains, beans, nuts, and tofu, and the avoidance of processed and high-calorie foods, sugar and fat, red meat, alcohol, caffeine, white flour, and additives.〔Sweet, Lucy. ("Why she's moved by bowels" ), ''The Times'', 25 July 2004.〕 McKeith's work has met with commercial success. ''You Are What You Eat'' has sold over two million copies, and in 2005 she was awarded a Consumer Education Award by the Soil Association.〔("''You Are What You Eat: The Plan That Will Change Your Life''" ), Barnes and Noble. Retrieved 5 December 2010. *("Best organic businesses 2005 announced by Soil Association, UK" ), ''Medical News Today'', 14 May 2005.〕 At the same time, the validity of her approach and the safety of her recommendations have been strongly criticized by health professionals.〔Cooke, Rachel. ("The vegetable monologues" ), ''The Observer'', 12 June 2005.〕 Numerous dieting and lifestyle plans supported by McKeith, such as the concept of the detox diet and the value of colonic irrigation, are not supported by mainstream scientific research, nor are her claims that through examining people's tongues and stool samples she can identify their ailments and dietary needs.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Detoxification )〕〔 McKeith possesses no qualifications in nutrition or medicine from accredited institutions, and in 2007 agreed with the Advertising Standards Authority to stop using the title ''"Doctor"''. ==Early life and education== McKeith was born in Perth, Scotland, and grew up on a council estate.〔 Her father, Robert, was a shipyard worker and her mother an office worker. She has said that she was raised eating the junk food she now advises against: "We all know the kind of food I grew up with—a typical Scottish diet. We'd have meat three times a day. I certainly never ate a mango, and had no idea what macrobiotic meant." Her father smoked for many years and died of cancer of the oesophagus in 2005.〔Christie, Janet. ("Gillian McKeith interview: Fighting fit" ), ''Scotland on Sunday'', 4 January 2009.〕 She obtained a degree in linguistics from the University of Edinburgh in 1981, later moving to the United States, where she worked in marketing and international business. In 1984, she received an MA in international relations from the University of Pennsylvania.〔, ''gillianmckeith.info''. Retrieved 5 December 2010.〕 In 1994, she claims to have obtained an MA and, in 1997, a PhD, both in holistic nutrition, via a distance-learning program from the non-accredited American Holistic College of Nutrition, later the Clayton College of Natural Health in Birmingham, Alabama (but since closed). She is a member of the American Association of Nutritional Consultants, but this association runs no checks on the qualifications of its certified members, permitting Ben Goldacre to register his dead cat for the same qualification as McKeith.〔Goldacre, Ben. ("Dr Gillian McKeith (PhD) continued" ), ''The Guardian'', 30 September 2004.〕 Her website lists post-graduate membership of The Centre for Nutrition Education; certificates from the London School of Acupuncture and the Kailash Centre of Oriental Medicine; and a Master Herbalist Diploma (Honors) from The American College of Healthcare Sciences.〔 She met her American husband, Howard Magaziner, a lawyer, in Edinburgh, where he was spending a year studying. At the time he ran a chain of health food shops in the United States, with which she became involved. The couple now live in London and have two daughters, Skylar (born 1994) and Aston (born 2000).〔, Channel 4. Retrieved 5 December 2010.〕 She suffers from scoliosis, and has said there is not a moment in her life when she is not in pain because of it.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gillian McKeith」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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