‘PURE’ proof that fats don’t kill and dietary guidelines are wrong?
By Marika Sboros PURE is the acronym for a major new (Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology) cohort study that is creating controversy about dietary guidelines globally. [more]
Food for Thought
Healthwashing: 7 tactics Big Food, Big Soda use to fool you
Healthwashing is a dirty business and the weapon that food and soft-drink companies use to hide unpleasant, soiled facts about their products. It is a [more]
Loneliness – as lethal for body as it is for mind
Loneliness – the word reeks of sadness and longing. Language created it to express the pain of being alone. So said German-American existentialist philosopher and [more]
Big Food to get a taste of its own medicine?
By Marika Sboros There’s something deliciously karmic about Big Food finally getting a taste of its own medicine. Years ago, I interviewed the head dietitian [more]
Want to live forever? Pop over to Iceland
By Marika Sboros Its title is one of Queen’s greatest hits: Who wants to live forever. The annual conference of the Icelandic Health Symposium (IHS) [more]
BIG PHARMA: DOSE OF OWN MEDICINE FOR PROFITS OVER PATIENTS
By Marika Sboros Is Big Pharma really as sinister as research suggests? Certainly, its products have been life-saving but also life-taking. And the world’s biggest [more]
DOES DAA TARGET DISSIDENT DIETITIANS WITH FAKE NEWS?
By Marika Sboros When the Dietitians Association of Australia (DAA) isn’t dishing up fake nutrition news to the public, it makes up fake news to [more]
DAA CLUELESS ON LCHF – DIETITIAN DOWN UNDER
Feng-Yuan Liu, of Metro Dietetics, is a relatively rare but growing species Down Under: a dietitian who is a member of Dietitians Association of Australia [more]
WHY DAA MAY REGRET ‘SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY’
By Marika Sboros It’s no real surprise that Big Food loves the Dietitians Association of Australia (DAA). DAA has quietly carved out close to a [more]
DAA TALKING HEADS: TIME FOR NEW CONVERSATION?
By Marika Sboros One reason for the Dietitians Association of Australia (DAA) credibility problem, say critics, is its public face. They say that by default or [more]
IS DOWN UNDER’S DAA REALLY IN BED WITH BIG FOOD?
By Marika Sboros Is the Dietitians Association of Australia (DAA) in bed with Big Food? It’s nearly two years since US public health lawyer Michele [more]
Cyber bullying virus – infection spreads among doctors
By Marika Sboros Something is rotten in the state of nutrition science. In parts, it’s terminally ill. One symptom is cyber bullying. It’s a virus [more]
Kosterich: why this man isn’t Australia’s Public Health Enemy!
Australian physician Dr Joe Kosterich is one of a growing and precious breed Down Under: a doctor with an open heart and mind. Like growing numbers [more]
Cannabis: high time South Africa legalises the drug?
By Marika Sboros I would never accuse members of South Africa’s Central Drug Authority (CDA) of smoking cannabis – or “dagga” as it is more popularly known. However, [more]
Chatterjee on curing modern medicine’s sickness
You may know Dr Rangan Chatterjee as the star power of the BBC’s Doctor in the House TV series. He is also one of that [more]
Alzheimer’s: can right diet prevent it? Sure, here’s how!
Alzheimer’s is the most common dementia disease and its incidence is rising worldwide. Estimates currently are that nearly 5.5million people in the US alone have [more]
Medicine’s dirty little secret: ‘drug whore’ doctors
It’s a very real sickness in medicine. It is doctors in the thrall of the drug industry. It creates what British cardiologist Dr Aseem Malhotra [more]
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]
Microbiome: Gut instinct tells you why it’s so important
The ancient Greeks believed that all disease begins and ends in the gut. South African Jessica le Roux is on board with that thinking. She [more]
Oscar Pistorius: the real malady that made him a killer?
Here’s an updated column I wrote during the trial of South African Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius for the murder of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on February 14, [more]