Always hungry? Ludwig on feeling full without getting fat
When it comes to nutrition, Harvard professor Dr David Ludwig restores flagging faith in that formerly revered research institution. Ludwig’s latest book, Always Hungry? is [more]
Month: Aug 2016
Is this proof evidence-based medicine is terminally ill?
Doctors and dietitians love to say the advice they dish out on diet is ‘evidence-based’. The evidence for that leaves a very bad taste in [more]
Calorie craziness: dishing up the real dirt on CICO!
What’s with our obsession with the calorie? Do we even really know what we are talking about when we fuss about calories? My favourite health [more]
Radical! Rebel doctors, data geeks reject diabetes ‘rule book’
Conventional medical treatment to beat obesity and diabetes clearly isn’t working. Both conditions are pandemic, so much so that doctors now call them diabesity. Now, [more]
Harvard’s hungry voice of nutrition sanity – David Ludwig!
Like many people, I used to be in awe of Harvard University Medical School. Until increasingly odd science began emanating from luminaries Harvard’s hallowed research [more]
Gary Fettke turns into ‘Australia’s Tim Noakes’!
By Marika Sboros The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) has banned orthopaedic surgeon Dr Gary Fettke from giving nutrition advice. It has done so after a [more]
CANADIAN STUDY SHEDS LIGHT ON WEIGHT LOSS, MEDICINE THAT ‘NO LONGER CURES’
In Part One, South African doctors and dietitians say this small Canadian study isn’t worth the paper it’s written on. In the final Part Two, [more]
CANADIAN STUDY: LCHF WORKS FOR DIABESITY BUT HERE’S REAL MESSAGE
Obesity and diabetes are so common these days, doctors call them diabesity. A small Canadian study in the SAMJ posits a whole new paradigm to treat [more]
Dietary guidelines: why they make you fatter, sicker
Governments, doctors and dietitians use dietary guidelines to dish up advice to you on what to eat and what not to eat. You’d expect that [more]