He’s the celebrity chef and host of My Kitchen Rules whose controversial stance on the Paleo diet has drawn fire from Australian medicos.
Now, a New Zealand microbiologist has slammed Pete Evans, calling his outspoken opinions on Paleo as ‘potentially harmful bull***t.’
Writing an opinion piece for The Spinoff, Dr Siouxsie Wiles singled out comments Pete made in a March interview on Channel Seven’s Sunday Night in which he hit back at critics saying: ‘you don’t need a qualification in common sense.’
Not healthy? A New Zealand microbiologist has slammed Pete Evans, calling his outspoken opinions on the Paleo diet as ‘potentially harmful bull***t.’
‘The common sense he is referring to in this instance is his belief that we should all be abandoning our modern agricultural diets because they are out of sync with our biology and making us chronically ill,’ she wrote.
Going on to argue that the Paleo diet had ‘no basis in archeological reality, Siouxsie went on to admit that she agreed with Pete that opinions shouldn’t be contingent on qualifications, but lambasted his stance on the controversial diet, calling it ‘harmful.’
‘I agree with Evans that you don’t need a qualification to talk common sense,’ she said. ‘If only Evans and his fellow celebrity ‘wellness’ gurus would actually talk it, instead of the potentially harmful bulls**t they spout.’
Uninformed; Writing an opinion piece for The Spinoff , Dr Siouxsie Wiles singled out comments Pete mde in a March interview on Channel Seven’s Sunday Night in which he hit back at critics saying: ‘you don’t need a qualification in common sense’
Dangerous? ‘I agree with Evans that you don’t need a qualification to talk common sense,’she said. ‘If only Evans and his fellow celebrity ‘wellness’ gurus would actually talk it, instead of the potentially harmful bulls**t they spout.’
Siouxsie also criticised the gourmand for his plan to include a recipe for a DIY baby milk formula, known as bone broth, which she said had been slammed by pediatricians for containing dangerous levels of vitamin A.
‘Honestly, I’d take the advice of a bunch of qualified doctors who study babies over Evans and his co-authors, voice-over actress and ‘wellness’ blogger Charlotte Carr and naturopath Helen Padarin,’ Siouxsie wrote.
Daily Mail Australia has contacted Pete Evans for comment.
Controversial: Siouxsie also criticised the gourmand for his plan to include a recipe for a DIY baby milk formula, known as bone broth, which she said had been slammed by pediatricians for containing dangerous levels of vitamin A
Pete was recently forced to defend his Paleo position after UK chef Jamie Oliver told the Herald Sun that the diet wasn’t ‘his thing’
‘Paleo is not really my thing,’ he told the publication.’I get that we haven’t changed since caveman times and I get that we were hunter gatherers but to be honest I think that we can get so caught up in diets and fads that we become very confused.’
Speaking to Daily Mail Australia, Pete defended the diet saying it was: ‘the most simple and least confusing dietary approach on the planet.’
‘Eating a diet rich in abundant colourful vegetables and having a side of well sourced animal protein and fat, such as wild sustainable seafood or pasture raised meats (basically meat and three veg, with an emphasis on the veg) is the most simple and least confusing dietary approach on the planet,’ he said.
Slammed; ‘Honestly, I’d take the advice of a bunch of qualified doctors who study babies over Evans and his co-authors, voice-over actress and ‘wellness’ blogger Charlotte Carr and naturopath Helen Padarin,’ Siouxsie wrote