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Barry Groves
Barry Groves
lives with his wife, Monica, in a small village in the Oxfordshire Cotswolds.
He
originally trained as an electronic engineer and was commissioned in the Royal
Air Force with which
he served until 1982.
After marrying in 1957, Barry and his wife, Monica, became very
overweight. They tried low-calorie dieting, inert fillers, sweaty plastic
clothes, exercise, et cetera, with no long-term success. Then, in 1962, Barry
discovered the low-carb diet. It worked spectacularly well – and still
works today. Thus began his interest in the role of food types in the aetiology
of obesity. He decided to leave the RAF at the earliest opportunity to
research the subject.
He retired from the RAF in 1982, at the age of 45, and began full
time research, later broadening the scope of his research to the relationship
between diet and
other modern 'diseases of civilisation'
such as heart disease and cancer.
As a result of his researches, he realised that the perceived
wisdoms, both of low-calorie dieting
for weight loss and 'healthy eating' for the control of heart disease, were
seriously flawed. The public
were being misled largely, it seemed, to increase the profits of commercial
interests.
He began to give talks and lectures, at first locally and then,
increasingly over an ever-wider area.
He has lectured as far afield as Western Australia.
Barry was a columnist writing about dietary and
health matters for several health-related magazines such as
The Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients, Caduceus
and
Namaste
.
He has
also written columns for the
Weekend Financial Times,
The Oxford Times,
and
The Glade.
His writing earned him the Sophie Coe Prize at the 2002 Oxford Symposium on Food History.
An International author, Barry has written a number of popular and
more technical books which have been published in countries as far apart as
Argentina and Russia, as well as all English-speaking countries.
With a doctorate in nutritional science, he currently divides his time between
writing and lecturing in hospitals to medical professionals about the
management and prevention of 'modern diseases' such as obesity, diabetes and
heart disease. He also gives less technical talks to Womens' Institutes,
Probus, and other groups.
He is currently:
For five years he served as an elected councillor on the West Oxfordshire
District Council where he was
Chairman of the Public Health Committee.
Barry Groves does not confine himself to medical and dietary research. With a
long-term interest in
energy conservation, he and his wife, Monica, designed and built their own
solar-heated house over
three years from 1977 to 1980.
For relaxation, in 1982, he took up archery. With his compound
bow, he became the British Clout
Archery Champion in 1987. He retained this championship in the subsequent four
years and in 1994,
holding all the British Records in this discipline from 1989 to 1992.
In 1992 he entered the British Flight Archery Championships,
winning at his first attempt with a
British record. He has successfully defended this championship every year since
and taken over 20 British records.
With a compound flight bow he designed and made
himself, Barry won three Gold
medals and broke two World records at his first attempt at the World Flight
Archery Championships at Ivanpah, in the Mohave Desert, California, in 1996. He
has now taken a total of eleven Gold Medals
at international
level with five world records.
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