Fettke: cover-up grows as case against him collapses
By Marika Sboros Australian orthopaedic surgeon Dr Gary Fettke’s professional reputation and licence to practise medicine are no longer under threat. The Australian Health Practitioner [more]
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Big Food, Big Pharma, little ethics, says Dr Joe Kosterich
Australian physician Dr Joe Kosterich is right about Big Pharma and Big Food. Both have a right to make a living, he says. Just as [more]
Big Food, Big Pharma killing for profit? Yes, say doctors in Europe
By Marika Sboros Are Big Food and Big Pharma really killing people for profit globally? Yes, say some medical doctors in the UK and Europe. [more]
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]
Lifestyle medicine: Big Religion’s new front in old war on red meat?
By Marika Sboros Lifestyle medicine sounds benign enough. By design or default, it may also be a cover for Big Religion’s new front in its [more]
Medical evangelism: helping hand for unscientific diet advice?
By Marika Sboros If nutrition science proves anything these days, it’s that Karl Marx was right. Religion really is the “opium of the masses”. It’s [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]
How to eat yourself well – the rise of the ‘micropowers’
By Marika Sboros Can you eat yourself sick? Of course, you can. Knowing how is liberating because if you can eat yourself sick, you can [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]
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]
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]
Will pasta make you thin? Fat chance!
By Marika Sboros Italian scientists say they have proved that eating pasta won’t make you fat. That it actually helps you to get thin. That’s [more]
UK Eatwell Guide boosts ‘industry wealth not public health’
THIS POST UPDATED ON OCTOBER 3, 2016 WITH NEW RESEARCH. By Marika Sboros Is the UK government dishing up bad dietary advice to its citizens? [more]
Big Food’s love for dietitians – it’s all about the money
Big Food’s enduring love for dietitians is no big secret. As a Fortune magazine special report makes clear, it’s all about the money. Here’s the [more]
Can you trust dietitians who are in bed with Big Food?
Should you follow advice from dietitians who are bed partners with the food industry? Even when they say that they sleep with Big Food just [more]
Noakes: legal team fights ‘tricks up sleeves, trial by ambush’
By Marika Sboros The Health Professions Council of SA (HPCSA) has freely admitted to procuring secret reports to charge health professionals. In other words, it [more]