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In 2000, Ashton was appointed the strategic research manager for [[Sanitarium Health and Wellbeing Company|Sanitarium]], an iconic Australian food company owned by the Seventh Day Adventist Church.<ref name=aifst/>
In 2000, Ashton was appointed the strategic research manager for [[Sanitarium Health and Wellbeing Company|Sanitarium]], an iconic Australian food company owned by the Seventh Day Adventist Church.<ref name=aifst/>
He was Chief Chemist at Sanitarium Research Laboratories (a nationally accredited food analysis and microbiological testing facility) from 1988.{{failed verification|date=May 2012}}
He was Chief Chemist at Sanitarium Research Laboratories (a nationally accredited food analysis and microbiological testing facility) from 1988.{{failed verification|date=May 2012}} He was a principal food research scientist at the [[University of Newcastle, Australia|University of Newcastle]].<ref name=bp/>

In academia, Ashton has been named an Adjunct Professor at [[RMIT University]],
<ref name="ARC-linkage"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rmit.edu.au/browse/About%20RMIT%2FContact%2FAll%20contacts%2FStaff%2Fby%20campus%2FUnknown%2FA;ID=f97yx91yrvhb;STATUS=A|publisher=Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University|title=Ashton, Dr. John|work=Contact|year=2012}}</ref>
and an Adjunt Associate Professor at [[Victoria University, Australia|Victoria University]],
<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://research.avondale.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1022&context=css|last=Ashton|first=John|year=2010|title=Some interesting facts on alcohol consumption|work=Christian Spirituality and Science|volume=8|issue=1|chapter=Article 4|series=Alcohol and the Christian Faith|publisher=Avondale Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies|page=4}}</ref><ref name=record09/>
an Honourary Associate at [[University of Sydney]],
<ref>jacket, "The Big Argument" book edited by Ashton</ref>
was a principal food research scientist at the [[University of Newcastle, Australia|University of Newcastle]],<ref name=bp/>
and has also had academic supervisory roles at both [[Deakin University]] and [[University of Wollongong]].
<ref> Editor (June 2006). "New Fellow". Food Australia 58 (6): page 243. “He has also co-supervised 11 PhD students at Newcastle, Wollongong, Victoria and Deakin Universities</ref>


He and his wife Colleen live in [[New South Wales]], [[Australia]] with their four children.<ref name=macmillan>{{cite web|url=http://us.macmillan.com/author/johnashton|title=Dr. John Ashton|work=Authors|publisher=[[Macmillan Publishers]]|year=2011}}</ref> He is a member of the Hillview [[Seventh Day Adventist Church]] in [[Morisset, New South Wales]].<ref name=record09>{{cite journal|url=http://record.net.au/adventist-recognised-for-contributions-to-biomedical-and-nutrition-research|work=[[Record (magazine)|Record]]|publisher=Seventh-day Adventist Church|date=2009-01-28|title=Adventist recognised for contributions to biomedical and nutrition research|location=Morisset, New South Wales|first=Sharyn|last=Brady}}</ref>
He and his wife Colleen live in [[New South Wales]], [[Australia]] with their four children.<ref name=macmillan>{{cite web|url=http://us.macmillan.com/author/johnashton|title=Dr. John Ashton|work=Authors|publisher=[[Macmillan Publishers]]|year=2011}}</ref> He is a member of the Hillview [[Seventh Day Adventist Church]] in [[Morisset, New South Wales]].<ref name=record09>{{cite journal|url=http://record.net.au/adventist-recognised-for-contributions-to-biomedical-and-nutrition-research|work=[[Record (magazine)|Record]]|publisher=Seventh-day Adventist Church|date=2009-01-28|title=Adventist recognised for contributions to biomedical and nutrition research|location=Morisset, New South Wales|first=Sharyn|last=Brady}}</ref>
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</ref> Because chocolate is high in [[phenylethylamine]], Ashton also believes chocolate may help people fall in love.<ref name=justfood>{{cite web|url=http://www.just-food.com/news/a-chocolate-a-day-may-keep-the-doctor-away_id92187.aspx|title=AUSTRALIA: A chocolate a day may keep the doctor away|author=Editorial Team|date=2001-02-19|work=Just-Food|publisher=Aroq Ltd|location=Bromsgrove, Worcestershire}}</ref> His followup book, ''The Chocolate Diet'', coauthored with Victoria University Biomedical Science Professor Lily Stojanovska <ref>http://www.vu.edu.au/about-vu/our-people/lily-stojanovska</ref>, recommends a weight-loss diet including no more than 10-20 grams of chocolate per day.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.thatslife.com.au/Article/Your-Life/Your-Good-Health/The-Chocolate-Diet|title=The Chocolate Diet|work=[[That's Life!]]|first=Katherine|last=Davison|publisher=Pacific Magazines Pty. Ltd.}}</ref>
</ref> Because chocolate is high in [[phenylethylamine]], Ashton also believes chocolate may help people fall in love.<ref name=justfood>{{cite web|url=http://www.just-food.com/news/a-chocolate-a-day-may-keep-the-doctor-away_id92187.aspx|title=AUSTRALIA: A chocolate a day may keep the doctor away|author=Editorial Team|date=2001-02-19|work=Just-Food|publisher=Aroq Ltd|location=Bromsgrove, Worcestershire}}</ref> His followup book, ''The Chocolate Diet'', coauthored with Victoria University Biomedical Science Professor Lily Stojanovska <ref>http://www.vu.edu.au/about-vu/our-people/lily-stojanovska</ref>, recommends a weight-loss diet including no more than 10-20 grams of chocolate per day.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.thatslife.com.au/Article/Your-Life/Your-Good-Health/The-Chocolate-Diet|title=The Chocolate Diet|work=[[That's Life!]]|first=Katherine|last=Davison|publisher=Pacific Magazines Pty. Ltd.}}</ref>


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For other people named John Ashton (disambiguation), see John Ashton (disambiguation) (disambiguation).
John F. Ashton
John F. Ashton
Born1944
New South Wales, Australia
Alma materUniversity of Newcastle (B.S.) & (Ph.D)
University of Tasmania (Master of Science),
Known forProponent of health benefits of chocolate, parapsychology, young Earth creationism
SpouseColleen F. Ashton
Scientific career
FieldsFood science, Young Earth creationism
InstitutionsRoyal Australian Chemical Institute

John Frederick Ashton (born 1947) is an Australian food scientist, a young Earth creationist, and an advocate of the health benefits of chocolate.

Biography

Ashton has bachelor's and master's degrees in chemistry from the University of Newcastle and the University of Tasmania, respectively; he earned honours and the CSR Chemicals Prize for his bachelor's degree. He also has a Ph.D. in epistemology (a branch of philosophy dealing with the limits of knowledge) from the University of Newcastle[1]. Ashton was elected a Chartered Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute in 1992,[2][1] [3] and has been a Professional Member of the Australian Institute of Food Science and Technology since 1998, and was elevated to Fellow of that institute in 2006.[1]

In 2000, Ashton was appointed the strategic research manager for Sanitarium, an iconic Australian food company owned by the Seventh Day Adventist Church.[1] He was Chief Chemist at Sanitarium Research Laboratories (a nationally accredited food analysis and microbiological testing facility) from 1988.[failed verification] He was a principal food research scientist at the University of Newcastle.[4]

He and his wife Colleen live in New South Wales, Australia with their four children.[5] He is a member of the Hillview Seventh Day Adventist Church in Morisset, New South Wales.[6]

Views

Ashton is a young Earth creationist who believes that the Earth is less than 10,000 years old and that life on Earth was created in its present form within a timespan of days[7] as maintained by the Seventh Day Adventist church, contrary to the modern scientific understanding that the Earth is approximately 4.5 billion years old and that living species evolved from a common ancestor. Ashton published his views in a series of books between 1998 and 2006, many of which attracted negative responses from scientists.[8][9] [10][11]

Ashton edited In Six Days: Why 50 Scientists Choose to Believe in Creation, an anthology of testimonies of young Earth creationist scientists, engineers, and medical professionals.[12] Australian biological anthropologist Colin Groves criticized the book as an abandonment of science in favour of "sheerest pseudoscience" in his review.[13] Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins wrote of it "I would not have believed such wishful thinking and self-deception possible."[14]

An article in New Scientist states that "In the early 1990s Ashton with Ronald Laura suggested that exposure to artificial light also contributed to mechanisms causing skin cancer. Independent studies at the Australian Radiation Laboratories lead to the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council issuing a health warning in regard to certain types of artificial light."[15]

In the 1990s Ashton coauthored The Perils of Progress with Ronald S. Laura (with foreword by Charles Birch). This book discusses electromagnetic fields, radiation poisoning, microwaves, gasoline, sunscreen, food additives, polyunsaturated fats, chlorine, fluoridated water, aluminium, sound pollution, artificial light, and sick building syndrome.[16][17][18][unreliable source?] Publishers Weekly described it as "thoroughgoing neo-Luddism".[16] University of Newcastle astronomer and professor Colin Keay described the book as "pandering to paranoias about our lifestyle, alarming hypochondriacs and suggesting conspiracy theories that conceal deadly hazards from those of us silly enough to enjoy our high standard of living."[8]

Ashton's book A Chocolate a Day, coauthored with his daughter-in-law Suzy Ashton, advocates that chocolate is a good source of various beneficial nutrients.[4][19] Because chocolate is high in phenylethylamine, Ashton also believes chocolate may help people fall in love.[20] His followup book, The Chocolate Diet, coauthored with Victoria University Biomedical Science Professor Lily Stojanovska [21], recommends a weight-loss diet including no more than 10-20 grams of chocolate per day.[22]

Publications

Books
  • Ashton, John F., ed. (2010) [1999-02-28]. In Six Days: Why 50 Scientists Choose to Believe in Creation (in English, German, Italian, and and Portuguese). 360 pages. Sydney; Green Forest; Milan: New Holland Publishers, Ltd.; Gruppo Editoriale Armenia S.p.A.; Master Books; Strand Publishing. ISBN 1-86436-443-2.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  • Ashton, John F. (September 2000) [1998]. The Seventh Millennium: The Evidence That We Can Know the Future. 189 pages. Sydney; London: New Holland Publishers, Ltd. ISBN 1-86436-359-2.
  • Ashton, John (2002-06-15). On the Seventh Day. 276 pages. Master Books. ISBN 0-89051-376-7.
  • Ashton, John (2006-01-15). The Big Argument: Does God Exist?: Twenty-Four Scholars Explore How Science, Archaeology, and Philosophy Have Proven the Existence of God. 400 pages. Master Books. ISBN 0-89051-469-0. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  • Ashton, John (2006-08-15). Unwrapping The Pharaohs: How Egyptian Archaeology Confirms The Biblical Timeline. 240 pages (Har/DVD ed.). Master Books. ISBN 0-89051-468-2. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  • Cerexhe, Peter (2000). Risky Foods, Safer Choices: Avoiding Food Poisoning. 163 pages. University of New South Wales Press Ltd. ISBN 0-86840-522-1. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
Articles
  • Ashton, John (September 2001). "The Case for Creationism: Fifty Scientists Speak Out" (PDF). Ministry. 74 (9). Silver Spring, Maryland: The General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists: 22–25. ISSN 0026-5314. Retrieved May 20, 2011.
  • "Alcohol's dark secret". College and University Dialogue. 17 (2): 28–9, 32. 2005.
  • "Eat your vegies!". Record. 108: 1, 11. 2003-08-23.
  • "Another side to the beer ads". Record. 112: 8–9. 2007-05-08.
  • "The right mate". Record. 87: 13–4. 1982-06-07.
  • Ashton, J. (2007). "A creationist's view of the intelligent design debate". Chemistry in Australia. 74 (3): 19–20.

External links

References

  1. ^ a b c d Editor (2006). "New Fellow". Food Australia. 58 (6): 243. John has been a Professional Member of AIFST since 1998 and a Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (FRACI) since 1992. {{cite journal}}: |author= has generic name (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  2. ^ "New RACI Fellows: John Frederick Ashton". Chemistry in Australia: 86. 1993. {{cite journal}}: |chapter= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  3. ^ Ashton, J. (2007). "A creationist's view of the intelligent design debate". Chemistry in Australia 74 (3): 19–20]
  4. ^ a b Williams, Rachel (2002-07-24). "Thank You for the Music: More Than a Sweet Nothing". Birmingham Post.
  5. ^ "Dr. John Ashton". Authors. Macmillan Publishers. 2011.
  6. ^ Brady, Sharyn (2009-01-28). "Adventist recognised for contributions to biomedical and nutrition research". Record. Morisset, New South Wales: Seventh-day Adventist Church.
  7. ^ http://creation.com/in-six-days-preface
  8. ^ a b Keay, C., 1998, “….to the brink of destruction”, The Skeptic, Vol.18, No2, pp44-45.
  9. ^ Groves, C. 1999, “Little evidence for supernatural theories”, The ANU Reporter (Canberra), 17 November, p10.
  10. ^ Groves, C., 1999, “A sad collection of poor excuses”, The Skeptic, Vol19, no2, pp43-45.
  11. ^ Dawkins, R., 2001, “Sadly, an Honest Creationist”, Free Inquiry magazine, Vol 21, No 4
  12. ^ Ashton, In Six Days, Ministry, 2001. pp 5-6
  13. ^ Groves, Colin (1999). "A Sad Collection of Poor Excuses" (PDF). The Skeptic. 19 (2): 43–45.
  14. ^ http://www.secularhumanism.org/library/fi/dawkins_21_4.html
  15. ^ Dayton, L., 1991, "Health Warning for Tungsten Halogen Lamps", New Scientist, 15 June, p12.“The warning from the medical council follows hard on the heels of a highly controversial theory about the dangers of artificial light proposed by John Ashton and Ronald Laura of Newcastle University in New South Wales.” p.12
  16. ^ a b "The Perils of Progress". Publishers Weekly. 1999-01-04.
  17. ^ Jones, R. L.; Vassilakis, Noemie Maxwell (2010). "Perils of Progress". Z. Smith Reynolds Library. Wake Forest University.
  18. ^ Wilson, Bill (1998). "The Perils of Progress". Fluoride. 31 (2). International Society for Fluoride Research: 102.
  19. ^ "Book Case". Books. Liverpool: Daily Post. 2002-03-23. {{cite magazine}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  20. ^ Editorial Team (2001-02-19). "AUSTRALIA: A chocolate a day may keep the doctor away". Just-Food. Bromsgrove, Worcestershire: Aroq Ltd.
  21. ^ http://www.vu.edu.au/about-vu/our-people/lily-stojanovska
  22. ^ Davison, Katherine. "The Chocolate Diet". That's Life!. Pacific Magazines Pty. Ltd.

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