Breakfast – king, prince or pauper of meals? Your choice
By Miriam Cohen Breakfast is king – or pauper, depending on who you talk to. There was a time when most mothers believed in breakfast [more]
Diabetes
Ketogenic diets – where REAL risk lies
Ketogenic (very low-carbohydrate) diets are becoming mainstream to treat a wide range of life-threatening and life-altering metabolic and neurological illnesses, ranging from type 2 diabetes [more]
‘Meat’ of plant-based diets: really best for people and planet?
By Marika Sboros Plant-based foods are a global trend. They are also blooming marvellous for bottom lines of companies producing these foods, as a Bloomberg [more]
Diabetes – can you conquer it? Yes! A new book shows you the way
By Marika Sboros Can you conquer your diabetes? Sure you can. However, conquering it is a journey, not a destination. Fortunately, as the ancient Eastern [more]
Dr Mariela Glandt: sweet medicine to beat diabetes in Israel
By Marika Sboros A century ago, doctors looked on in awe as patients with type-1 diabetes responded to life-saving insulin therapy. These days, Israeli endocrinologist [more]
Vegan diet – ‘best for type 2 diabetes’, say UK scientists
By Marika Sboros A predominantly plant-based or vegan diet may be best for keeping type 2 diabetes in check, say UK scientists. That’s not least [more]
Fasting: Fung dishes up quick science to reverse type 2 diabetes
By Marika Sboros Fasting is as old as the hills of ancient Greece. Many doctors and dietitians still dismiss it as a fad. It is [more]
Seriously! Stomach surgery first option for diabetics?
By Marika Sboros I’m always somewhat unnerved when doctors encourage diabetics to have bariatric (stomach) surgery before they’ve tried more effective, safer, less invasive methods. Like [more]
Swiss Re: Type 2 Diabetes CAN be reversed
By Marika Sboros You know something big is happening when the world’s second-largest reinsurer, Swiss Re, has its eye on the future of diabetes [more]
Type 1 diabetes: low-carb diets dish up radical new hope
By Marika Sboros Type 1 diabetes is a scary diagnosis, more so for parents when their children are diagnosed with it. Now, US scientists offer a [more]
Virta Health visionary behind a diabetes ‘cure’ of the future
By Marika Sboros For the future of diabetes treatment, look no further than the US start-up Virta Health and its visionary founder and CEO 41-year-old [more]
Type 1 diabetes: when doctors’ good advice turns bad
By Marika Sboros Here’s a fascinating blog that throws up an ethical dilemma for doctors, nurses and dietitians who dish out orthodox advice for type [more]
A ‘cure’ for type 2 diabetes: Dr Jason Fung’s 2 easy steps
Are you a type 2 diabetic, pre-diabetic or have a family history of diabetes? If so, this is one of the most important blogs you’ll [more]
Noakes: doctors, dietitians make diabetes a threat to life?
Here’s a sobering thought: many doctors and dietitians make diabetes life-threatening when it doesn’t have to be. They do that by giving the wrong dietary [more]
Real diabetes cure: diet or trimming your innards?
By Marika Sboros Doctors across the globe believe that bariatric surgery is a “breakthrough” treatment for type 2 diabetes. They claim that it’s the closest [more]
Low-carb works for diabetes – why don’t more doctors advise it?
By Marika Sboros Here’s food for thought: there is evidence to show that low-carb, high-fat (LCHF) diets work very well for people with type 2 [more]
A ‘cure’ for type 1 diabetes? Dr Eli Lewis on holy grail trail
(EDITOR’S NOTE: For parents of children newly diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, Prof Lewis does not see patients individually. He suggests that parents show this [more]
Paleo: what’s with prattle about perils for those with diabetes?
By Marika Sboros Paleo eating is not so much a diet as a lifestyle. It fits well in with low-carbohydrate, high-healthy-fat (LCHF) eating regimens and [more]
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]