High times for marijuana as medicine under threat
By Marika Sboros In South Africa, it is known as “dagga”, “grass”, “dope” or pot”. It grows widely – and wildly – just like the [more]
Credit Suisse puts the knife into fat phobia
By Marika Sboros The global investment bank Credit Suisse is fighting dodgy nutrition science. Its research arm, the Credit Suisse Research Institute, has produced an [more]
Djokovic: dietary change restores World Number 1 crown?
(Updated Sept 2016) By Marika Sboros World Number One tennis player Novak Djokovic is back as Australian Open champion for 2016. It’s hard to believe [more]
Roger Federer: love-match champion in ‘Banting’ court?
By Marika Sboros There’s good reason that Swiss tennis champion Roger Federer is a phenomenon on and off court. From a brat who used to [more]
Noakes, nutrition trial and the hearing that never happened
By Marika Sboros It’s not strictly legally correct to say that the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) postponed its first hearing against Prof [more]
Is Noakes REALLY South Africa’s next ‘Dr Death’?
By Marika Sboros I’ve watched with growing fascination how the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) is conducting its case against Prof Tim Noakes. [more]
Statins: mad, bad, wonderful world of cholesterol drugs
By Marika Sboros Welcome to what some doctors call “statin insanity” and others call the extraordinary, wonderful world of blockbuster cholesterol-lowering drugs. Statins have always [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]
Noakes: is he really Public Health Enemy Number 1?
This is a short version of the lecture that Prof Tim Noakes gave at the close of the international low-carb, high-fat (LCHF) summit in Cape [more]
Malhotra on the heart of good medicine
British consultant cardiologist Dr Aseem Malhotra is a keynote speaker at the first international low-carb, high-fat (LCHF) conference in Cape Town in February 2015. Malhotra [more]
Pomegranate power and kosher fine dining in Israel
By Marika Sboros Israel is one of the world’s vegan capitals. It is also a pomegranate paradise. During my recent visit to Israel, I drank [more]
Noakes: backlash begins as UCT ‘big guns’ fire wildly
By Marika Sboros As I predicted, the backlash against University of Cape Town sports scientist Prof Tim Noakes has begun. I anticipated that it was [more]
‘Banting’: Noakes spreads the message to MPs in South Africa
By Marika Sboros South African MPs could soon be “Banting” – as low-carbohydrate, high-healthy fat eating is known in that country. Certainly, many look as [more]
Oscar Pistorius: a ‘smoking gun’ to prove he’s innocent?
Updated in 2016! I wrote the column below during Paralympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius’ trial for the murder of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2014. Judge Thokozile [more]