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]
Food for Thought
Masks ‘do reduce COVID-19 spread, despite studies saying they do not’
The science of masking needs to separate the impact of the mask itself from the impact of the advice to mask.
Conspiracy theories: Why so many believe them, how best to fight them
Conspiracy theories have always been with us. They have morphed into another deadly virus pandemic in the wake of COVID-19. Here, psychology professors from the [more]
Smoking habits: how the addiction affects your relationship with food
Smoking remains one of the most addictive vices, despite being the leading cause of preventable deaths worldwide. A study in the BJM (British Medical Journal) [more]
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]
Malnutrition: get ’em young, teach your children well and beat it
By Debra Holdren Malnutrition is a growing concern worldwide. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), almost 470 million adults and 200 million children suffer [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]
Nutrition crisis: healing the harm from bad science
By Marika Sboros Crisis, you say. What crisis? If you’re talking nutrition science, it’s not just one crisis. Take your pick from related crises around [more]
Vegetarian cookbook: gift goes on giving, even for meat-eaters!
By Marika Sboros Every now and then there comes a vegetarian cookbook that is a real gem, a healthy gift that goes on giving – [more]
Cancer: Fung sees the future, cracks the code
By Marika Sboros Are you or is anyone you love battling cancer? If so, you need Canadian nephrologist (kidney specialist) Dr Jason Fung on your [more]
Fasting – benefits of life in the fast lane
By Marika Sboros Life In The Fasting Lane (Harper Wave) is a brave, new book on one of the oldest, traditional healing modalities. The [more]
Infertility: ‘miracle’ foods beat drugs for PCOS?
By Marika Sboros Canadian naturopathic physician Nadia Pateguana has an enviable reputation for getting people pregnant. How did Pateguana acquire that unusual reputation? It’s in [more]
Ethics: online course for doctors to ‘first do no harm’
By Marika Sboros “First do no harm” is the golden rule of the Hippocratic oath. Medical doctors around the world have to swear it before [more]
Hospital food: a cardiologist’s war on ‘obscene, processed junk’!
By Marika Sboros Hospitals are places of healing, dedicated to patients’ health, right? Wrong. They should be, of course, but they aren’t always. Particularly when [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]
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]
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]
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]