Paleo Pete wants to kill your baby

Pete Evans, woo-mongering celebrity chef from Australia, is trying to publish a cookbook for infants that advocates - among other things - undercooked eggs, broth made from bones, and a formula for "reproducing" breast milk using liver that would introduce dangerously high levels of vitamin A. It's been slammed by health authorities and will hopefully be investigated by the consumer authority for making false and misleading claims



But, to be fair to him, high infant mortality was a defining characteristic of the Palaeolithic!

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The publication of a paleo baby cookbook, co-authored by celebrity chef Pete Evans, has been delayed, amid calls by leading health officials that its recipes could be potentially fatal to children. Friday's release of Bubba Yum Yum: The Paleo Way has been postponed by publishers Pan Macmillan after concerns about the book's "bone broth" baby formula were raised with the federal Department of Health, The Australian Women's Weekly reported online. The recipe, called the "DIY baby milk formula", is a chicken liver based concoction containing no milk products, which the book claims "mimics the nutrient profile of breast milk". The recipe is marketed as a "wonderful alternative" to breast milk and the "next best thing" when breast milk is not an option. The claim has been slammed as "false and misleading" by Julie Smith, a health and economics expert at the Australian National University.

But, like any good woo-monger, Pete will not be "silenced" from promoting his unique (and highly profitable) brand of dangerous bunkum - indeed, he's doubling down!

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But, he told his 500-strong audience, who each paid nearly $200 to attend his Melbourne event, he was "not going to be silenced". Indeed, the first recipe of the day, part of Evans' round-the-country roadshow, was his controversial bone broth. Dressed in black he boiled chicken feet, necks and a few aromatic vegetables into a cloudy stock. Hines ladled some into a mug, and Evans took a steaming sip. "We want you to think about ditching your morning coffee ... for a broth-ee," Hines told the crowd. Naturopath, nutritionist and medical herbalist Helen Padarin spoke about the health benefits of each recipe that Evans prepared.

I especially enjoyed this quote from an attendee:

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"I eat like this anyway, to me this is just real food. I don't see it as a new big diet, even though it's become such a hot topic.

Riiight... So you paid $200 a head just to be told to eat "real food" because it's not a "hot topic" :boggled: