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]
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Real food on trial: sit back, listen to the full story
By Marika Sboros Real Food On Trial is now available on audio from US-based Tantor Media. The sub-title speaks volumes: How The Diet Dictators Tried [more]
Noakes free at last, HPCSA licks its legal wounds
By Marika Sboros South African scientist Prof Tim Noakes is a free man. Noakes has won his final battle with the Health Professions Council of [more]
Noakes: HPCSA back on warpath, blocks evidence of a set-up
By Marika Sboros The Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) is back on the warpath against Prof Tim Noakes. It has announced an appeal [more]
Low-Carb Companion: a new best friend for life
By Marika Sboros Low-carb books are not yet a dime a dozen but they are weighing down shelves in bookstores and in cyberspace. The Low-Carb Companion should fly [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]
Groundhog Day as the HPCSA goes after Noakes again
By Marika Sboros Groundhog Day or deja vue? Take your pick. The Health Professions Council of SA (HPCSA) has announced an appeal against its own [more]
ADSA – dealing with defeat in ‘Nutrition Trial of the 21st Century
By Marika Sboros If defeat is best seen through the lens of a life lesson, the leaders of the Association for Dietetics in South Africa [more]
Noakes not guilty, ‘did no harm, broke no laws’
By Marika Sboros Prof Tim Noakes has been found not guilty of unprofessional conduct for a single tweet in February 2014 saying that good first [more]
Noakes: did disgruntled dietitians set him up?
By Marika Sboros Prof Tim Noakes did not have a doctor-patient relationship with a breastfeeding mother on Twitter. His tweet caused no harm to her [more]
Noakes: elephant in the room proves he’s not guilty?
By Marika Sboros Prof Tim Noakes was guilty of unprofessional conduct on “a balance of probability”, advocate Ajay Bhoopchand argued in closing yesterday. He also [more]
Noakes – who ultimately holds the key to his fate
By Marika Sboros What – or who – is really behind the prosecution of scientist Prof Tim Noakes? Where did it actually start. Is it [more]
Noakes v 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]
LOOK WHO’S FIGHTING MEDICAL DIABETES GROWTH INDUSTRY!
By Marika Sboros Many doctors and dietitians are still pessimistic about diabetes. They tell patients that diabetes is chronic, progressive and irreversible. They tell patients [more]
Noakes: did SA scientists deliberately aim to smear him?
By Marika Sboros Did researchers at top South African universities deliberately make multiple mistakes in a major study? Was their aim to discredit low-carbohydrate, high-fat [more]
Noakes guilty of ‘patience in face of profound silliness’
By Marika Sboros Psychiatry professor Michael Simpson is withering about the Health Professions Council of SA (HPCSA) case against Prof Tim Noakes. Simpson is a [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 trial: dietitians trying to avoid finger of justice?
By Marika Sboros Are the dietitians behind the prosecution of Prof Tim Noakes attempting to distance themselves to avoid the legal consequences if the ruling [more]
Teicholz on 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 during Noakes trial
By Marika Sboros The Health Professions Council of SA (HPCSA) has faced its fair share of obstacles in its road to prosecuting scientist Prof Tim [more]