‘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]
Heart Disease
Myocarditis: MUCH higher risk from COVID-19 infection than vaccination
Opponents of COVID-19 vaccines like to raise the inflammatory heart condition of myocarditis to discourage people from having a vaccine. A message to take to [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]
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]
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]
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]
High blood pressure: doctor’s ignorance the real disease?
By Marika Sboros Can you turn something into a disease just by giving it a fancy Latin title? Scottish GP Dr Malcolm Kendrick says you [more]
Diet-heart hypothesis: a zombie or written in scientific stone?
By Marika Sboros The diet-heart hypothesis is a curious creature. To some scientists and physicians, the hypothesis that saturated fat causes heart disease is a [more]
Saturated fat causes heart disease? Bollocks, says Kendrick!
Quick! If your doctor or dietitian still says you should eat a low-fat diet for your heart’s sake, find another one. In the final of [more]
Cholesterol, fat heart puzzle – Kendrick solves it
Some find it puzzling that cardiologists still tell patients to avoid saturated fat like the plague. And that they also tell patients to lower their [more]
Kendrick on the Inuit, nosebleeds and heart disease
Scottish GP Dr Malcolm Kendrick says there is good reason that the Canadian Inuit had frequent nosebleeds but zero heart disease. Kendrick is an author [more]
Coconut oil – can it kill you or will the AHA kill you first?
By Marika Sboros The American Heart Association (AHA) is raising researchers’ blood pressure into the stratosphere. The BBC reported the AHA latest “presidential advisory ” [more]
Obesity? Forget the fats, it’s the carbs, stupid, says cardiologist
What does obesity have to do with hearts? Lots. Icelandic cardiologist Dr Axel Sigurdsson spoke recently at a meeting mostly of cardiologists and endocrinologists. He [more]
Statins side effects ‘all in the mind’ – Seriously?
Are the sides effects of cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins really all in the mind? A new Lancet study appears to suggest that this is [more]
Don’t just swallow what doctors say on statins: Kosterich
Statins are blockbuster drugs that make billions for pharmaceutical companies. Research shows these drugs do little to make patients’ lives longer or better. Read The Truth [more]
Statins insanity: doctors hand over to drug companies
What’s with all this wilful blindness in top doctors globally about the risks of statins? After all, evidence shows these blockbusters drugs are not effective [more]
Sugar and hearts: how food industry still buys scientists
By Marika Sboros Here it is, straight from the scientific horse’s mouth: Industry-sponsored nutrition research, like research the tobacco, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries have sponsored, [more]
Statins study? 21st century medical censorship, says Kendrick
Scottish GP Dr Malcolm Kendrick starts off his post on the latest statins controversy with a great George Orwell quote: ‘If liberty means anything at [more]
Real cause of heart disease? Not diet, says Kendrick!
Some doctors say a high-carb diet causes heart disease. Others say that’s not the case. Scottish GP Malcolm Kendrick has a different take. He says [more]
KILLING FAT PHOBIA IN A HEART BEAT: LOW CARB USA 2016
By Marika Sboros For decades, cardiologists, dietitians and assorted experts around the globe have warned people to avoid saturated fat like the proverbial plague. They said it [more]