J. K. Rowling

In January 2004, it was reported that Stouffer's appeal against the judgement had been rejected. There is also bad breath and fatigue, it is claimed: [3] (http://content.health.msn.com/content/article/87/99349.htm?GT1=3391), [4] (http://www.ext.colostate.edu/pubs/columnnn/nn000905.html), and Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine 68(2001): p.761. Stouffer was fined US$50,000 and ordered to pay part (but not all) of the plaintiffs' costs. Also, a diet of low-carb foods may quickly become dull to many people, meaning that their appetite is somewhat naturally suppressed as they become hungry for carbs, but the dieter either has none handy or resists this hunger. In September 2002, the court found in Rowling's favour, stating that Stouffer had lied to the court and falsified and forged documents to support her case. [2] (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3416637.stm) They further point out that weight loss on fad diets, which typically restrict or prohibit certain foods, is often due to the fact that the dieter has less food choices available. Rowling and her colitigants argued that much of the evidence that Stouffer presented was fraudulent, and asked for sanctions and attorneys' fees as punishment. They claim that no evidence has surfaced that any diet will cause weight loss unless it reduces food energy below the maintenance level, and reports have indicated that successful weight loss due to the Atkins diet may be the result of less food energy being consumed by the dieter, rather than the lack of carbohydrates.

Stouffer, who had not previously sued, then filed counterclaims alleging such infringement. Opponents of the diet also point out that the initial weight loss upon starting the diet is a phenomenon common with most diets, and is due to reduction in stored glycogen and related water in muscles, not fat loss. (the producer of the film adaptations) sued Stouffer, asking the court to judge that there was no infringement of Stouffer's trademarks or copyright. Expressing a general sentiment was the conclusion: “runs counter to all the current evidence-based dietary recommendations.” --Journal of the American College of Cardiology 43 (2004): p.725. In 2001, Rowling, Scholastic Press (the American publisher of her books), and Warner Bros. j. In the late 1990s, Nancy Stouffer, an author of children's books published in the 1980s, began to publicly charge that Rowling's books were based on her books, including The Legend of Rah and the Muggles, and Larry Potter and His Best Friend Lilly. Condemned by the American College of Sports Medicine in Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise 33 (2001): p.2145.

Rowling has been involved in a lawsuit over the Harry Potter series, and other litigation has been suggested or rumoured. i. She has also said that she has told Alan Rickman and Robbie Coltrane certain secrets about their characters that are not yet revealed. Johns Hopkins University White Paper, 2004. She says she has told him more about the later books than anybody else, but not everything. Condemned by Johns Hopkins in Diabetes 2004. Rowling assists Steve Kloves in writing the scripts for the films, ensuring that his scripts do not contradict future books in the series. h.

Rowling's insistence on British actors for the main roles resulted in Steven Spielberg passing on the opportunity to direct the series. Condemned by American Heart Association in Circulation 104 (2001): p.1869. only. g. She only reluctantly went along with changing Philosopher's Stone to Sorcerer's Stone, and limited it to the U.S. Condemned by the American Kidney Fund in American Kidney Fund news release, 25 April 2002. Rowling resisted suggestions by the filmmakers that the movies should be filmed in the United States or cast with American actors (only one American appears in the first film). f.

Rowling, who was a fan of Cuarón's work prior to the third film, has stated that the third film is her personal favorite. Condemned by ACS in American Cancer Society; Weighing In on Low Carb Diets, 2004. A darker atmosphere was adopted in the film version of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, attributed to the new director, Alfonso Cuarón. e. A film version of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was released in late 2001 and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets in 2002. 94-3700, 1993. This death has heavily affected her writing, according to Rowling. No.

She has contributed money and support to many other charitable causes, especially research and treatment of multiple sclerosis, from which her mother died in 1990. Also condemned by National Institutes of Health in NIH Publ. All proceeds from them go to the UK Comic Relief charity. d. They are complete with handwritten annotations and scribblings in the margins, and include introductions by Albus Dumbledore. "a nightmare of a diet." --Journal of the American Dietetic Association 102 (2002): p.260. The last two purport to be facsimiles of books mentioned in the novels. Fantastic Beasts is a textbook, while Quidditch is probably the most popular book in the Hogwarts library. c.

Rowling has also made a guest appearance as herself on the American cartoon show The Simpsons, on a special British-themed episode entitled "The Regina Monologues". Everett Koop (Shape Up America! news release, 29 December 2003). On December 20, 2004, she announced that the sixth Harry Potter book would be released on July 16, 2005. "unhealthy and can be dangerous." --C. Although she was "amused by the suggestion", she turned the offer down, as she was busy working on the next novel in the Potter series. b. Davies to contribute an episode to the British television science-fiction series Doctor Who. “...the Atkins diet, as recommended, poses a serious threat to health.” --Chair of the American Medical Association's Council on Food and Nutrition, testimony to Congress.

In late 2003, she was approached by television producer Russell T. a. The fifth book was released on June 21, 2003. Among those criticizing the healthiness of his diet, if not also skeptical of the claims of greater weight-loss than other, safer diets, are such reputable organizations as:. After forcing her publishers to drop her deadline, she enjoyed three years of quiet writing, commenting that she spent some time working on something else that she might return to when she is finished with the Harry Potter series. Some experts have even suggested Atkins' plan is quackery. She said that at one point, she had considered breaking her arm to get out of writing, because the pressure on her was too much. It also violates the food pyramid, which states that amounts of carbohydrates, protein and fats (in that order) must be regularly consumed to stay healthy.

Rowling took some time off from writing at this point, because during the process of writing the fourth book, she felt her workload was too heavy. With its emphasis on fatty foods, the Atkins diet has generally been considered by most medical and nutritional experts to be unsound. The fifth book, titled Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, was delayed by an unsuccessful plagiarism suit directed towards her by rival author Nancy Stouffer (see below). But many in the scientific community also raise serious concerns:. Five of these have already been published. They are still controversial and only recently has any serious research supported some aspects of Atkins' claims, especially for short-term weight-loss (6 months or less). The Harry Potter series is expected to run to seven volumes, one for each year Harry spends in school. Low-carbohydrate diets have been the subject of heated debate in medical circles for three decades [1] (http://www.lowcarb.ca/).

Neil Murray, on December 26, 2001. (See New Scientist, 21 May 2003.). The sales made her a multi-millionaire, and in 2001, she purchased a luxurious 19th century mansion, Killiechassie House, on the banks of the River Tay in Perthshire, Scotland, where she married her second husband, Dr. The study followed the diets of 63 obese men and women. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was a huge success, and she has thus far published four sequels. Weight loss was also statistically greater in the Atkins dieters after three and six months compared with the conventional dieters (although this did not remain statistically significant after a year). Rowling chose to adopt her grandmother's middle name, Kathleen. In the study, conventional dieters' HDL cholesterol raised by only 1.6% while their triglyceride levels did not improve significantly.

Rowling's publisher, Bloomsbury, wanted to use initials on the cover of the Harry Potter books, suggesting that if they used an obviously female name, the target group of young boys might be reluctant to buy them. This counters one of the chief criticisms of Atkins' approach, which is that cholesterol is raised by eating fatty foods and meat. Unemployed and living on welfare, she completed the novel, doing some of the work in an Edinburgh cafe as there was no heating in her home. A research study carried out by the Weight and Eating Disorders Program at the University of Pennsylvania, reported in May 2003 that the Atkins diet raised levels of HDL (or "good") cholesterol by an average of 11% and reduced the amount of triglycerides in the bloodstream by 17%. On her divorce she came to Edinburgh with her daughter, planning to live near her sister. In both studies, subjects lost more weight on the low-carbohydrate plans. They had one child, a daughter named Jessica Rowling Arantes (born July 27, 1993), before their divorce in 1995. The 22 May 2003, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine published two scientific, randomized studies comparing standard low-fat diets to low-carbohydrate diets such as the Atkins Diet.

While there she married Portuguese TV journalist Jorge Arantes on October 16, 1992. Traditional, high-fat French cooking has led to a much lower incidence of obesity, morbid obesity and chronic heart disease than in the high-sugar American diet, despite overall energy intake and exercise levels being the same. Rowling then moved to Oporto, Portugal to teach English as a foreign language. Low-fat diets are not automatically healthy ones. She began working on the story during her lunch hours. Ketosis should not be confused with ketoacidosis, a serious medical condition seen in diabetics and alcoholics. According to her, by the time she reached her destination, she had the characters and a good part of the plot for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in her head. It is biologically natural to burn fat - that's why we store it.

It was during this period that she had the idea for a story about a young boy who attends a school of wizardry, during a four-hour train trip between King's Cross, London and Scotland. Criticism of the diet often focuses on the safety of inducing ketosis, which is one of the body's natural processes for the metabolism of body fat often during sleep. After college she moved to London to work for Amnesty International as a researcher and bilingual secretary. In the end, no study has shown that cardiac disease has been reduced by promoting low-fat diets, and there is evidence to the contrary. She studied French at Exeter University, spending a year in Paris as part of her studies. Yet the studies on which the low-fat gospel was based were also small, and less definitive. She attended secondary school at Wyedean Comprehensive, where she told stories to her fellow students. So then the critics defend their low-fat position by noting, correctly, that the new studies were small.

Joanne's family moved twice as she was growing up, first to Winterbourne in Bristol and then to Tutshill near Chepstow. Yet, when studies are finally done to see what low-carb/high-fat diets actually do, they are at worst as effective as the recommended low-fat diets, and they do not, in fact, increase cardiac risk factors; indeed, overall, they lower them. Rowling also has a sister, Di, two years younger than she, who is now a lawyer. For years, opponents of the Atkins diet claimed that (1) it would not work, it was preposterous, eating all that fat would make people fat, and (2) it would seriously increase cardiac risk. Her mother was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis when Rowling was 15; she died in the early 1990s. The fat is a crucial part of Atkins, for fat is satisfying, it sates. Rowling's parents met on a train, coincidentally from King's Cross station to Scotland. In the context of widespread propaganda against fat, many people, even those who try the Atkins diet or other low-carb diet, try to make it low-fat, which apparently does not work.

dollars, by writing books; Rowling is also the wealthiest woman in the United Kingdom, well ahead of even Queen Elizabeth II [1] (http://www.forbes.com/2004/02/26/cx_jw_0226rowlingbill04.html) [2] (http://www.forbes.com/lists/results.jhtml?passListId=10&passYear=2004&passListType=Person&searchParameter1=unset&searchParameter2=unset&resultsHowMany=25&resultsSortProperties=%2Bstringfield11%2C-numberfield3&resultsSortCategoryName=Country&fromColumnClick=&bktDisplayField=&bktDisplayFieldLength=&category1=category&category2=category&passKeyword=&resultsStart=301). The crucial issue is the sustainability of the diet in its Maintenance phase. In February 2004, Forbes magazine estimated her fortune as £576 million, making her the first person to become a billionaire, in terms of U.S. It is unfair to single out the Atkins or any low-carb diet for this factor. Rowling's books have gained international attention and have won multiple awards. However, this is true of all diets, not just low-carb diets. Rowling is most famous for being the author of the Harry Potter fantasy series. Opponents of the Atkins diet tend to claim that weight is regained when dieting stops.

Rowling (pronunciation: role-ing as in rolling stone), is a British fiction writer. But for many people, it seems, a low-carb diet may be more effective, and there is accumulating research confirming this. Joanne Rowling, OBE, (born July 31, 1965 in Yate), commonly known as J.K. For some people, a low-fat diet may work as well as a low-carb diet, perhaps better. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2001). As with any diet, the Atkins may not be effective for some people. Quidditch Through the Ages (2001). Critics of low-carb dieting may also fail to consider a simple fact of life: people are built differently.