ADSA FACES GROWING BACKLASH FOR ‘RECORD 17 LIES’ ABOUT NOAKES
By Marika Sboros The Association for Dietetics in SA (ADSA) is facing a global backlash for its role in the trial of scientist Prof Tim [more]
Nutrition on Trial
NOAKES VERDICT: HE WON THE BATTLE BUT THE WAR GOES ON
By Marika Sboros The ashes have settled on the unequivocal not guilty verdict for Prof Tim Noakes but what’s next? Will there be a scientific [more]
NOAKES NOT GUILTY – ‘OF SOMETHING OR OTHER’
Foodmed.net is running a series on what the verdict in the case against Prof Tim Noakes really means. First off is Scottish GP Dr Malcolm [more]
Noakes not guilty – did no harm, broke no laws
By Marika Sboros Prof Tim Noakes is not guilty of unprofessional conduct. When Pretoria advocate Joan Adams announced the verdict yesterday, the hearing erupted into [more]
NOAKES TRIAL: RECKONING DAY FOR FEROCIOUS ‘FABLE’?
By Marika Sboros There’s something absolutely “fabulous” about the ferocity with which the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) has prosecuted Prof Tim Noakes. [more]
NOAKES TRIAL: WHO REALLY DISHES UP DANGEROUS ADVICE?
By Marika Sboros Prof Tim Noakes gave scientifically correct information in his tweet, his lawyers have argued. His statement to wean babies onto LCHF (low-carb, [more]
NOAKES TRIAL: DID DISGRUNTLED DIETITIANS SET HIM UP?
By Marika Sboros Prof Tim Noakes had no patient on Twitter and his tweet caused no harm to anyone. So, what did two days [more]
NOAKES: ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM PROVES HE’S INNOCENT?
By Marika Sboros Prof Tim Noakes is guilty of unprofessional conduct on “a balance of probability”, advocate Ajay Bhoopchand argued yesterday. He also accused Noakes of [more]
NOAKES AND THE WOMAN WHO HOLDS THE KEY TO HIS FATE
By Marika Sboros What’s really behind the prosecution of scientist Prof Tim Noakes? Is it just a single tweet to a breastfeeding mother, which even [more]
NOAKES VS ILSI ‘QUEENPINS’ TRYING TO NAIL HIM
By Marika Sboros So, it has taken a brilliant US investigative journalist to expose all the food industry’s “biggies” trying to silence scientist Prof Tim [more]
Why Dr Gary Fettke can’t talk to patients about sugar
By Marika Sboros Australian orthopaedic surgeon Dr Gary Fettke can no longer advise his diabetic patients on nutrition to prevent limb amputation. In particular, he [more]
Zinn to parents: Don’t feed cereals to your babies!
By Marika Sboros Parents should not feed cereals to their infants as first foods, says New Zealand-based dietitian and academic, Dr Caryn Zinn. Zinn (pictured right) said [more]
ZINN: ‘UNETHICAL FOR DIETITIANS NOT TO OFFER LCHF’
By Marika Sboros Three things embarrass New Zealand-based dietitian and academic Dr Caryn Zinn most these days. At university, she never questioned what lecturers said [more]
NOAKES ‘GUILTY’ VERDICT DEVOID OF ALL TRUTH: ADV JOAN ADAMS
By Marika Sboros The Health Professions Council of SA (HPCSA) released a press release today saying it found Prof Tim Noakes guilty of unprofessional conduct. [more]
NOAKES TRIAL: DIETITIANS TRYING TO COVER THEIR BACKS?
By Marika Sboros Are the dietitians behind the trial of Prof Tim Noakes attempting to distance themselves from the complaint to avoid the consequences that [more]
TEICHOLZ: HOW FOOD INDUSTRY INFLUENCES DIETARY ADVICE
By Marika Sboros In the final of a three-part series on the evidence US investigative journalist Nina Teicholz gave at the trial of scientist Tim [more]
TEICHOLZ: HOW LOW-FAT DIETS CAN KILL YOU
By Marika Sboros At the heart of the trial of scientist Prof Tim Noakes is the diet-heart hypothesis that saturated fat causes heart disease. US [more]
TEICHOLZ EXPLODES FAT BOMBS IN NOAKES TRIAL
By Marika Sboros The Health Professions Council of SA (HPCSA) has a few problems in its prosecution of scientist Prof Tim Noakes. One is research [more]
NOAKES TRIAL: ‘ANGEL’ HARCOMBE AIMS AT ITS HEART
By Marika Sboros If South African scientist Prof Tim Noakes were enough to raise cardiologists’ blood pressure into the danger zone, British obesity researcher Dr [more]
MISTAKE OR MISCHIEF: SCIENTISTS IN PLOT TO NAIL NOAKES?
By Marika Sboros Mistake or mischief? Did top scientists at Stellenbosch and Cape Town universities make so many honest mistakes in their study? Did they [more]