Uwe Knop

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Uwe Knop (* 1972 ) is a German nutritionist and journalist .

Education and professional career

Uwe Knop studied ecotrophology in Giessen and obtained his diploma. Since 2002 he has been active as a medical PR consultant for various companies. In addition, he publishes nutrition guides and works as a nutrition expert for numerous press reports and as a speaker for specialist societies. He is a guest author for the Axis of the Good and Novo magazine .

Knop is a member of the European Institute of Food and Nutritional Sciences . He lives in Eschborn.

Nutritional positions

Knop has set himself the goal of creating a "natural counterweight to the pseudo-scientific manipulation machinery". According to his own statements, he pursues this goal through the "objective, ideology-free analysis" of numerous nutritional studies. He criticizes the insufficient data basis for many dietary recommendations. He postulates that there are no studies that prove which diet is healthy. All studies are observational studies and are therefore methodologically inadequate for dietary recommendations. He therefore calls for a more relaxed approach to dietary rules. In his opinion, no single food can be judged whether it is healthy or unhealthy. He rejects dietary rules for healthy people as "useless". Current recommendations are even harmful. He sees a connection between the introduction of the “5 a day” rule for fruit and vegetables and the increase in gastrointestinal complaints in the population since its introduction. Knop considers the problematization of obesity in children to be exaggerated. He speaks out against the introduction of a sugar or fat tax because he considers them to be ineffective. He also warns that a sugar tax could also affect natural sugar sources such as fruit or fruit juices. In the case of sugar in particular, he sees no evidence of a risk to the metabolism. Knop takes a critical view of low-carb diets, because randomized-controlled studies have shown no benefit in weight loss for these diets (but they have proven an advantage for blood sugar and blood lipids). In an observational study, however, an increased risk of diabetes was described.

Knop recommends eating what tastes good and what you can tolerate. Children in particular have an instinctive body feeling which food is right for the situation or in general. It is justifiable for children to prefer white bread to wholemeal bread because it provides faster energy and is easier to digest. He criticizes the fact that “young Germans would be forcibly enlightened with a campaign for small and medium-sized enterprises”. Child obesity mainly affects socially disadvantaged families and immigrant families, but there is a lack of “campaigns for“ poor foreign children ””. Adults could also turn to fast food with peace of mind if their body's own signals convey a need for fast food. Knop emphasizes the high degree of individuality in the physical reaction to different foods. He sees diets as the main cause of obesity and eating disorders. He emphasizes that 70–80 percent of body weight is genetically determined. He rejects dietary supplements and functional food and speaks out against nutritional myths, hypes and gurus, which earn money from advisory literature on the basis of unsubstantiated recommendations.

Knop criticizes media that take over study results lightly and scientists who carry out unclean studies. He also criticizes the German Nutrition Society because its “nutrition propaganda” is the basis for “the state pays for the spread of pseudoscientific fantasies”, co-financed by taxpayers' money.

reception

Knop's theses are shared on some points by other nutrition experts, so his criticism of the problematic data basis of many recommendations is confirmed.

However, many of his own statements are considered populist themselves. Knop writes that dietary recommendations such as “five servings of fruit and vegetables a day” are “state paternalism” and “propaganda based on popular blindness”. “Vegetarian and vegan diets are fashions that serve more to profile personality than health. He not only rejects advertising bans for children's sweets, the food traffic light or a soda tax, but describes them as 'coercive measures' ”. "The food pyramid of the German Nutrition Society (DGE) is absurd and the body mass index, which divides people into normal and overweight people, is arbitrary."

Some book reviews rated his work as "sensational".

Publications

  • Hunger and Lust, 2010
  • Nutritional Mania , 2016
  • Eating intuitively , 2017
  • Good carbs , 2017
  • Child, eat what ... you like it , 2017
  • The body navigator , 2019

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anna Lena Roth: "Eat what you want". Retrieved September 19, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Uwe Knop - Author Profile - Münchner Verlagsgruppe. Retrieved September 19, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Media reports «News - Culinary body intelligence. Retrieved September 19, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Christina Heller: Uwe Knop: Feasting is perfectly fine at Christmas. Retrieved September 19, 2019 .
  5. ↑ FOCUS Online: Away with the nutritional hypes and the gurus: Eat what you feel like! Retrieved September 19, 2019 .
  6. ^ Profile and contributions by Uwe Knop on the axis of the good .
  7. ↑ The EU.LE® - EU.LE team. Retrieved September 19, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Uwe Knop - THE AXIS OF GOOD. ACHGUT.COM. Retrieved September 19, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Contact details «Contact - Culinary body intelligence. Retrieved September 19, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Uwe Knop - Author Profile - Münchner Verlagsgruppe. Retrieved September 19, 2019 .
  11. ^ Uwe Knop: CV, books and reviews at LovelyBooks. Retrieved September 19, 2019 .
  12. ↑ a b c d e Uwe Knop: Paranoia sugar tax. Retrieved September 19, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Uwe Knop, a qualified nutritionist, advises: Trust the child's sense of taste! - School milk information portal. Retrieved September 19, 2019 .
  14. ↑ "Forget all dietary rules" | Free press - food & drink. Retrieved September 19, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Christina Heller: Uwe Knop: Feasting is perfectly fine at Christmas. Retrieved September 19, 2019 .
  16. ↑ a b "Diet rules are nonsense". In: Achilles Running. January 10, 2011, accessed September 19, 2019 .
  17. ↑ The milieu: "Is healthy eating useless?" Retrieved September 19, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Uwe Knop: Fruit and vegetables as disease-causing agents? Retrieved September 19, 2019 .
  19. ↑ Uwe Knop: Candy bashing without any basis. Retrieved September 19, 2019 .
  20. ↑ Uwe Knop: No generation of fat children. Retrieved September 19, 2019 .
  21. ↑ Uwe Knop, a qualified nutritionist, advises: Trust the child's sense of taste! - School milk information portal. Retrieved September 19, 2019 .
  22. ^ Uwe Knop: WHO witch hunt for sugar. Retrieved September 19, 2019 .
  23. ↑ Yan Meng, Hao Bai, Shijun Wang, Zhaoping Li, Qian Wang: Efficacy of low carbohydrate diet for type 2 diabetes mellitus management: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials . In: Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice . tape 131 , September 2017, ISSN  1872-8227 , p. 124-131 , doi : 10.1016 / j.diabres.2017.07.006 , PMID 28750216 .
  24. ↑ Kevin D. Hall, Juen Guo: Obesity Energetics: Body Weight Regulation and the Effects of Diet Composition . In: Gastroenterology . tape 152 , no. 7 , May 2017, ISSN  1528-0012 , p. 1718–1727.e3 , doi : 10.1053 / j.gastro.2017.01.052 , PMID 28193517 , PMC 5568065 (free full text).
  25. ↑ Uwe Knop: Low-carb diets neither make you slim nor healthy. Retrieved September 19, 2019 .
  26. ↑ Nazli Namazi, Bagher Larijani, Leila Azadbakht: Low-Carbohydrate-Diet Score and Its Association with the Risk of Diabetes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Cohort Studies . In: Hormone and Metabolic Research = Hormone and Metabolic Research = Hormones Et Metabolisme . tape 49 , no. 8 , August 2017, ISSN  1439-4286 , p. 565-571 , doi : 10.1055 / s-0043-112347 , PMID 28679144 .
  27. ↑ Lucia Hennerici: "More fat children - that's a myth". Interview. In: rbb-online.de. May 22, 2008. Retrieved September 19, 2019 .
  28. ↑ Uwe Knop, a qualified nutritionist, advises: Trust the child's sense of taste! - School milk information portal. Retrieved September 19, 2019 .
  29. ↑ Intuition instead of diet compulsion: The new freedom on the plate. Retrieved September 19, 2019 .
  30. ↑ a b c No healthy person needs nutritional science - Hunger & Lust by Uwe Knop. In: worldsoffood.de. Retrieved September 19, 2019 .
  31. ↑ a b Anna Lena Roth: "Eat what you want". In: SZ.de (Süddeutsche Zeitung). May 17, 2010, accessed September 19, 2019 .
  32. ↑ Tips from nutritionist Uwe Knop from his book Culinary Body Intelligence. Retrieved September 19, 2019 .
  33. ↑ Book review: Uwe Knop - Nutritional Mania - Wissenschaft aktuell. Retrieved September 19, 2019 .
  34. ↑ Uwe Knop, a qualified nutritionist, advises: Trust the child's sense of taste! - School milk information portal. Retrieved September 19, 2019 .
  35. ^ A b Eva Voß: Conversation with Uwe Knop: Nutritionist: "Diets don't work". In: NOZ.de (Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung). January 9, 2016, accessed September 19, 2019 .
  36. ↑ FOCUS Online: Away with the nutritional hypes and the gurus: Eat what you feel like! Retrieved September 19, 2019 .
  37. ↑ Uwe Knop: "Nutritional mania" - Eat what you want - everything else is cheese! Retrieved September 19, 2019 .
  38. ↑ "Forget all dietary rules" | Free press - food & drink. Retrieved September 19, 2019 .
  39. ↑ "Forget all dietary rules" | Free press - food & drink. Retrieved September 19, 2019 .
  40. ↑ Uwe Knop: "Nutritional mania" - Eat what you want - everything else is cheese! Retrieved on September 19, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Knop, Uwe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German nutritionist and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1972