Ann de Wees Allen Part 3

Ann de Wees Allen Part 3 (Education Credentials)

I think the whole Glycemic Index thing needs to be addressed by her as well.

The same website above states that Mrs. Allen was awarded with the “First Glycemic Patent Ever Awarded Worldwide.”

As I noted before, on February 20, 2014, the office of the developer of the concept of the Glycemic Index, Dr. David J.A. Jenkins (MD, PhD, DSc) (circa 1981), was contacted and asked if the claim of Mrs. Allen receiving the ‘first glycemic patent ever awarded worldwide’ was valid. The question was answered by Dr. Cyril W.C. Kendall, PhD of the Department of Nutritional Sciences, Faculty of Medicine from the University of Toronto in Ontario Canada. He stated:

“I have never heard of this doctor nor am I aware of a worldwide patent on GI [Glycemic Index].”

The abstract for Dr. Jenkins work on the glycemic index can be found at: http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/34/3/362.abstract

NOT a SINGLE entry for the work of either Ann de Wees Allen or the Glycemic Index was found by the search engine at the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (http://ajcn.nutrition.org).

Of course, this could simply be because neither of the aforementioned parties have ever submitted an article to the journal for review… again… “What difference, at this point, does it make?” Right?

In searching digital archive a question began plaguing me about agave nectar. Has something changed about Agave nectar? The reason I ask is because Mrs. Allen is quoted as telling the Wall Street Journal on October 23, 2009 that diabetics who consumed agave nectar experienced “…severe and dangerous side effects…” and “The diabetics passed out on the floor and had to be taken to the hospital…”

This is in an article titled: Agave Syrup May Not Be So Simple written by Laura Johannes which can be found at:
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052748704335904574497622806733800?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052748704335904574497622806733800.html

But, Four years prior on August 17, 2005 the Glycemic Research Institute (of which Mrs. Allen is the Chief of Biomedical Research) is noted, in a Press Release, as confirming agave’s low glycemic profile. The press release can be found at the following address: http://www.blueagavenectar.com/textfiles/AgavePressRelease.pdf

Subsequently the GRI allows BlueAgaveNectar.com to display their Low Glycemic Certification sticker.

Of course, Mrs. Allen did NOT tell the Wall Street Journal how many people were included in the study or how much or what type of agave nectar the diabetics consumed so, it is within the realm of reason, that the Blue Agave Nectar, is somehow different than the agave nectar tested.

A Claim she made on AnndeweesAllen.com: On her site Mrs. Allen states she was the first scientist to ever speak at the United Nations General Assembly about L-Arginine and Sickle Cell Anemia. She even lists the times she was to have spoken. www.Anndeweesallen.com/UnitedNationsPressRelease.htm

My question is this: Why isn't she listed as a speaker in the official documents for the 1st World Sickle Cell Day?

http://new.paho.org/hq/dmdocuments/2009/Sickle_cell_anemia_day.pdf

NOTE: Mrs. Allen’s reproduction of the events has her prominently listed as a speaker at the event. But, the official documents only lists RESEARCH SCIENTISTS!

And why isn’t she listed as a presenter at the 2010 Norwegian Sickle Cell Anemia Organization http://nscao.org/english/seminar_reports/seminar_2010

Again, I’m pretty sure this is simply an oversight on the part of the United Nation’s. Everyone knows how worn out these people are and how little time is actually spent verifying that speakers are referenced correctly. Still, if I were Mrs. Allen, I’d want to get this correct PRONTO – especially since it’s been over 3 years they’ve put out the wrong information.

Oh by the way, I want to tell you that if you suddenly can’t find mention of this research anywhere on the internet it’s because I’ve been sued out of existence. In other words, I may be committing financial suicide since Mrs. Allen has, at her beck and call, a law firm that seems to sue any and every one she deems appropriate to do so – the lady has even trademarked her own name so that it can’t be used by anyone, anywhere without her express written permission when it comes to the promotion of nutritional supplements. I’ve got to say… that’s a shrewd way of protecting a name as long as it’s being used to promote a product of some type. Fortunately, for me, I’m not involved in any business that would directly affect Mrs. Allen’s name nor would I EVER consider demeaning her in any way. I’ve heard from lots and lots and LOTS of people that she is very nice, very personable and very smart… but no one knows where she got her education from… which is what I’m trying to get to the bottom of now.

To continue, Mrs. Allen must be among the top ½ percent in the human populace as it concerns intelligence because among her many accolades it is inferred that she is a genetic engineer because she “…was able to genetically engineer a low-glycemic delivery system for L-arginine specifically designed for the African-American community.” http://www.encoderesearch.com/Norwegian.htm

While this is certainly possible allow me to explain what it takes to become a genetic engineer. A 10 year +2 year +3 year educational pattern is normally mandated for anyone seeking a degree in genetic engineering. The first 10 years refers to the number of years one spends in both elementary and secondary education. In other words, it requires you to have passed High School… no big feat here. The following 2 years refers to one obtaining the equivalent of an Associate’s degree – usually highlighting both math and biology. Again, no huge feat.

However, it’s the last 3 years that presents an issue in my mind because these years should not only include math and biology but also two genetics courses and three calculus courses that include integral and differential calculus BEFORE they are accepted into a genetic engineering course. Preferably a person who seeks to become a genetic engineer has to have as part of their undergraduate degree high marks in both molecular biology or molecular genetics. Then you need to achieve a Ph.D. which requires, several years of original research under the guidance of a supervisor and practical experience in recombinant DNA techniques.

The reason I state that Mrs. Allen would have to be in the top ½ percent of intelligent people is because she lists, on her website, that she has over 30 years of experience in Medical Clinical Research (though she doesn’t list anywhere on her site WHERE this experience was gained); and that she’s been the Director or Chief researcher or science officer for the following: Nanoparticle science as it relates to the blood brain barrier, orthomolecular science, and nutritional genomics.

Listing that she is or was the Director of Nanoparticle Science (even though the company or University where she held this title is listed NO where) would, I assume, lead the reader (you and me) to believe she had experience in Chemistry, Physics, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and/or Materials Science – which are the listed requirements for a Graduate Minor in Nanoparticle Science and Engineering from the University of Minnesota and similar qualifications for other major universities.

However, I should state that not everyone who holds positions of high authority has qualifications in their respective fields. For example, Barack Obama and the majority of those in the Senate and Congress who passed the Affordable Health Care and Protection Act are NOT qualified to speak authoritatively on the subject of health care. So, it could be that Mrs. Allen is simply a very bright manager who was promoted to lead a team of qualified scientists because of her ‘people’ skills. Still, it would be great to know which company or university she worked with on nanoparticle science.

The same set of questions arise about her qualifications in both orthomolecular science and nutritional genomics including which companies or schools she worked with on these two disciplines and whether she concentrated on either nutrigenomics or nutrigenetics?

As for Boresha International and their Clinical Data References and Bibliography one must wonder why neither the research from Mrs. Allen or the Glycemic Research Institute is mentioned. In other words, one might assume that, given Mrs. Allen’s impressive list of credentials and research as well as those of the Glycemic Research Institute, at least SOME of the research that went into the Boresha products would have come from them. That this might be expected should come as no surprise as Mrs. Allen supposedly holds patents in everything from Thermogenic Coffee, tea, water, cola, soda, a sports drink, lemonade, a chocolate drink, hot chocolate, green tea, and even human thermogenesis.

With all the scientific achievements Mrs. Allen has to her name (especially with the thermogenic cola and soda – which, according to everyone I’ve ever talked with is the exact same thing), I expected to see her research trumpeted far and wide but, unfortunately, it’s not to be found anywhere on Boresha’s site.

As for The Glycemic Research Institute itself is a privately held corporation (which means that virtually no information is obtainable via general public inquiry) and it is not Better Business Bureau accredited – which might mean nothing more than a company that has “Over 30 years of Glycemic expertise” has never bothered to register with the BBB or it might mean that the owner or owners of the Institute don’t want prying eyes into who actually founded the business.

As for me, it sure does look like the Glycemic Research Institute and Mrs. Allen’s own website (under her own name) was designed by the same company. This thought is compounded by the fact that a quick check of the WhoIs listing shows that someone by the name of Dr. Allen is the administrator for BOTH her website and that of the Glycemic Research Institutes and that the Nutrilab Corporation, whose website address is nutrilabusa.com, ALL have the EXACT Nameserver listed (fourguysfromtampa) as of December 1st, 2013.

Now, none of this is suspicious in and of itself however, if one looks at the WHOIS listing with even a passing glance of interest you’ll find 10 entries associated with Mrs. Allen’s name. Whomever the Fourguysfromtampa are that run the Nameserver by the same name are definitely kept quite busy by Mrs. Allen because the websites I’ve personally visited associated with her seem to be cookie cutter sites.Throughout Mrs. Allen’s website’s (of which she is, at the very least, the administrator and therefore should know what goes onto them) it is claimed she hold patents for multiple and various products and has authored research papers.

All of that sounds great but it begs the questions…

1) Where are the patent numbers so we, the consumer can find out what the patents are for and

2) Who peer-reviewed her papers?

I can find ZERO (Nada, ZILCH-OLA) information on practically any of this.

Using the Free Patents Online search engine and utilizing the Expert Search with the Advanced Functions options that restricted my search to “Allen, Ann de Wees” I turned up a total of 9 patents by Mrs. Allen. The patents I found are listed below along with the corresponding URL.

Patents:

1) United States Patent Application 20040022914

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2004/0022914.html

2) United States Patent Application 20090196956

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2009/0196956.html

3) United States Patent Application 20030119888

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2003/0119888.html

4) United States Patent Application 20080317901

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2008/0317901.html

5) WIPO Patent Application WO/2003/103415

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/WO2003103415A1.html

6) United States Patent Application 20050043287

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2005/0043287.html

7) United States Patent 5480657

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5480657.html

8) United States Patent 6608109

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6608109.html

9) United States Patent Application 20120316121

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2012/0316121.html

That’s all… 9 products.

For a lady whose patents are supposed to span over 3 decades, it’s interesting to me that all of the ones I was able to find were patented in a 20 year time frame. 1993-2012

And, for the life of me, I CANNOT find anywhere the Worldwide Patent for a Low-Glycemic Index. One would think that would be HUGE information… especially to Dr. Jenkins who pioneered the Glycemic Index.

Once again, I find myself feeling disturbed for Mrs. Allen because some of her most impressive accomplishments simply haven’t been given enough, at least in my opinion, coverage… I mean… she should seriously be plastered all over practically every nutritional magazine in the world with all of her talents!

Now, to be fair, her claim to have been nominated for a Nobel Prize is a completely SAFE claim since, according to the Norwegian Nobel Committee and the Official Web Site of the Nobel Prize, “The names of the nominees and other information about the nominations cannot be revealed until 50 years later.” http://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/medicine/

In other words, I could claim to have been nominated for a Nobel Prize and I’d be safe from prying eyes for the next 50 years. In fact, I WAS nominated for the Nobel Prize and WILL be nominated for the Nobel Prize for the next 5 years straight. If you don’t believe I’m telling the truth about this… ask me and see if I’m not! Ha!

Again, this could be sheer coincidence but as it’s been said “If it looks like a duck and it sounds like a duck”… well, you get the picture. The Nobel Prize Committee is a duck!

And they need to quit ducking their responsibility and go ahead and assure everyone that Mrs. Allen was indeed a Nobel Prize nominee just like they assured us that President Obama won the prize not because of anything he had already done but for all the things they were sure he was going to do!

Okay, onto her professional affiliation with the Glycemic Research Institute.

The Glycemic Research Institute bills itself as “A professional clinical research organization specializing in Glycemic Index Testing with over 30+ years of Glycemic Expertise.”

As one might imagine, there are several labs around the world that test GI values by following THE standard international testing protocol including, but not limited to:

The University of Sydney’s Glycemic Index Research Service
Leatherhead Food Research
Oxford Brooks University
Hammersmith Food Research

The GREAT thing about these research groups is that (unlike the Glycemic Research Institute) they list their researchers by name and give their educational backgrounds. Unlike what I assume is simply an oversight on the part of the management of the Glycemic Research Institute the following people and their educations are available from the aforementioned research groups:

Dr. Thomas Wolever, MD, PhD, DM from Oxford University, England in 1980. PhD in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Toronto in 1986. Member of the medical staff at St. Michael’s Hospital in the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism since 1987.

Dr. Alexandra Jenkins, PhD, RD from the University of Surrey in the United Kingdom,1988

Dr. Vladimir Vuksan Ph.D from the University of Zagreb, Croatia Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Nutritional Science at the University of Toronto Associate Director of the Clinical Nutrition and Risk Factor Modification Centre at St. Michael’s Hospital

Dr. Jennie Brand-Miller, PhD, FAIFST, FNSA is a Professor of Biochemistry for the School of Molecular Bioscience and the Boden Institute of Obesity, Nutrition, Exercise & Eating Disorders

Dr. Helen Lightowler, PhD in nutrition from South Bank University, London

Ann Fraser, MSc in Applied Human Nutrition from Oxford Brookes University

Patricia Shaw, MSc in Nutrition and Body Composition from the University of Limerick, Ireland and a MSc in Nutrition from King’s College London

Dr. Miriam Clegg, PhD in Sport and Exercise Sciences from the University of Limerick, Ireland.

Dr. Sangeetha Thondre, PhD in Biotechnology from The Central Food Technological Research Institute, India and an MSc in Biotechnology from Cochin University of Science and Technology.

Dr. Neil Heppell, PhD from at the National Institute for Research and an MSc Biochemical Engineering from Birmingham University

Carmen Diaz-Toledo MSc in Pharmacy from the University of Madrid

I’ll end the list now even though I could go on and list other members - all with advanced degrees from accredited and well-known schools – but NOT before I note that the researchers I’ve just noted have a HOST of peer-reviewed articles – MANY of which are hyperlinked to the appropriate organizations and ALL of which can be found by simply scanning through organizations such as MedLine, JAMA and many of the peer review site available on the Internet.

Again, I have to wonder, why it is I can’t find any educational background on Mrs. Allen since all the other food research groups seem to have this type of information on their researchers prominently displayed? It must be because of my lack of scrutiny… that’s the only reason I can think of.

So, there you have it! The list of accomplishments and educational background checks I’ve been able to verify for Mrs. Ann de Wees Allen.

I know what you’re thinking… 12-Inch Richard... you really haven’t uncovered much about Mrs. Allen. I mean, we really don’t know much more about her than we did when you started this.

For this… I do apologize. I’m so incredibly sorry that my detective skills simple aren’t up to par. I know, I know… I should have just been able to contact Mrs. Allen or her office directly and been able to verify her educational background, find the patent numbers etc. but, unfortunately, Mrs. Allen was obviously too busy to respond to said inquiries.

So, if YOU or SHE have any information you’d care to share with those who listen to me… please let me know.

Until next time… this is 12-Inch Richard asking you to tune in next time for more inane prattling, off-the-wall subjects, comments too pure for the average listener to hear and information probably only I am interested in!