Type 2 diabetes ‘cure’? A doctor’s personal journey
DIABETES is chronic, irreversible, incurable, and means drugs for the rest of your life to manage it, right? Wrong. Canadian physician Jay Wortman will [more]
Noakes: is he really Public Health Enemy Number 1?
This is a short version of the lecture that Prof Tim Noakes gave at the close of the international low-carb, high-fat (LCHF) summit in Cape [more]
Malhotra on the heart of good medicine
British consultant cardiologist Dr Aseem Malhotra is a keynote speaker at the first international low-carb, high-fat (LCHF) conference in Cape Town in February 2015. Malhotra [more]
Pomegranate power and kosher fine dining in Israel
By Marika Sboros Israel is one of the world’s vegan capitals. It is also a pomegranate paradise. During my recent visit to Israel, I drank [more]
Noakes: backlash begins as UCT ‘big guns’ fire wildly
By Marika Sboros As I predicted, the backlash against University of Cape Town sports scientist Prof Tim Noakes has begun. I anticipated that it was [more]
‘Banting’: Noakes spreads the message to MPs in South Africa
By Marika Sboros South African MPs could soon be “Banting” – as low-carbohydrate, high-healthy fat eating is known in that country. Certainly, many look as [more]
Oscar Pistorius: a ‘smoking gun’ to prove he’s innocent?
Updated in 2016! I wrote the column below during Paralympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius’ trial for the murder of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2014. Judge Thokozile [more]