Cholesterol fears, hearts, fake news, the age game: who plays?
By Marika Sboros Many people have asked Scottish GP Malcolm Kendrick to comment on a controversial new study about cholesterol that is making headlines around [more]
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Real food on trial: sit back, listen to the full story
By Marika Sboros Real Food On Trial is now available on audio from US-based Tantor Media. The sub-title speaks volumes: How The Diet Dictators Tried [more]
Israel wakes up to keto and low-carb
By Marika Sboros Dr Mariela Glandt is the brains behind Israel’s first keto, low-carb, high-healthy-fat (LCHF) conference. The event draws leading LCHF and nutrition experts [more]
Ketosis for kids: the real magic of mother’s milk
By Marika Sboros It’s not just parents who fear the “k” word – ketosis – for kids. Many, if not most, paediatricians and paediatric dietitians [more]
Nutritional psychiatry: future of mental health treatment?
By Marika Sboros Nutritional psychiatry is an idea whose time has come. That raises a question: What took the medical profession so long to embrace [more]
Academic mobbing at UCT: a neverending story
By Marika Sboros Academic bullying or mobbing as it has become known is an ugly phenomenon. It’s a scourge, endemic in even the best universities [more]
Heikkilä: Is he Finland’s Noakes or Fettke?
By Marika Sboros Is it most correct to call Dr Antti Heikkilä Finland’s Tim Noakes, Gary Fettke? What about Shawn Baker, Annika Dahlqvist or Èvelyne [more]
Vaccination: Kendrick dares to inject challenge to orthodoxy
By Marika Sboros Scottish GP Dr Malcolm Kendrick is a brave man. He dares not just to write about the great vaccination debate but to [more]
Shawn Baker: heavyweight medicine man in praise of meat
VITAL SIGNS By Marika Sboros US physician and orthopaedic surgeon Dr Shawn Baker once dreamt of owning a cheesecake factory. He also dreamt of being [more]
Facebook: why did it really take down a top low-carb group?
By Marika Sboros What’s really behind Facebook’s deletion of one of its biggest low-carb groups, the Banting 7 Day Meal Plans? The social media titan’s [more]
Statins: attacks on doctors reveal ‘smoking guns’ on side effects?
UPDATED 17/03 WITH COMMENT AND BACKGROUND By Marika Sboros Is there really “a special place in hell for doctors who claim statins don’t work“? The [more]
Fasting: quick ways to get rid of unwanted side effects
By Marika Sboros Fasting really is as old as the hills of ancient Greece. It’s a bedrock of traditional healing systems across the globe to [more]
Statins: cardiologists take aim at heart of media support
By Marika Sboros The Guardian newspaper in the UK has been haemorrhaging readers for years. The newspaper’s recent uncritical support for medical orthodoxy and dogma [more]
PCRM: responsible doctors or just flying vegan, junk science flag?
By Marika Sboros In the US, they call themselves the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM). The PCRM’s latest study with Czech scientists, concludes that [more]
Exercise: you’re never too busy for its magic!
By Marika Sboros I’m a big fan of exercise – as we all should be. It makes intuitive sense that exercise is good for overall [more]
Trump: he’s officially obese, shorter – and more!
By Marika Sboros It’s official. US President Donald Trump is obese and shorter than he claims to be. Trump physician Dr Sean Conley has released [more]
Statins revival: doctors in fiery pact with devil or drug industry?
By Marika Sboros If you think robust evidence of serious health risks has dealt a terminal blow to the billion-dollar statin industry’s heart, think again. [more]
The Diet Fix: Finally, the ‘last word’ in weight loss
By Marika Sboros Are you battling to lose weight? Confused by the minefield of conflicting nutrition and weight-loss advice out there? Or are you simply [more]
Fibre: does ‘staff of life’ hold clue to prevent premature death?
By Marika Sboros A large New Zealand-led study on health benefits of dietary fibre is making waves in scientific circles. The authors of a meta-analysis [more]
Kendrick, Wikipedia and ‘dark forces’ waging war on science
By Marika Sboros When I heard that Wikipedia had deleted Scottish GP Dr Malcolm Kendrick’s profile, I was shocked. Not just because I’ve met Kendrick, [more]