Smoking habits: how the addiction affects your relationship with food
Smoking remains one of the most addictive vices, despite being the leading cause of preventable deaths worldwide. A study in the BJM (British Medical Journal) [more]
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COVID-19: is there an ancient path to beat modern viral pandemics?
By Marika Sboros Is there a simple, scientific way to protect us all from the latest coronavirus pandemic and viral pandemics in future? Are governments [more]
Trump: he’s officially obese, shorter – and more!
By Marika Sboros It’s official. US President Donald Trump is obese and shorter than he claims to be. Trump physician Dr Sean Conley has released [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]
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]
Coconut oil is ‘pure poison’ – Harvard prof
By Marika Sboros Harvard epidemiology professor Karen Michels has sent social media into overdrive with her claim that coconut oil is “pure poison”. She also [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]
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]
Salt Fix – new book best taken with more than a pinch of salt!
By Marika Sboros Salt – are you getting too little or too much of that other “white stuff’? Dr James DiNicolantonio is a US cardiovascular [more]
Healthy eating – not always healthy for you!
Healthy eating. Is it a given that it’s good for you? Not always. It can stimulate orthorexia nervosa – the psychological term for an ‘unhealthy [more]
Loneliness – as lethal for body as it is for mind
Loneliness – the word reeks of sadness and longing. Language created it to express the pain of being alone. So said German-American existentialist philosopher and [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]
Salt Fix: the right white stuff for hearts, minds, sex lives?
By Marika Sboros The next time your doctor or dietitian tells you to eat less salt for no reason you can fathom, find another one [more]
BIG PHARMA: DOSE OF OWN MEDICINE FOR PROFITS OVER PATIENTS
By Marika Sboros Is Big Pharma really as sinister as research suggests? Certainly, its products have been life-saving but also life-taking. And the world’s biggest [more]
IN PRAISE OF LOW-CARB: CANADIAN DOCTORS RISE UP AGAINST DOGMA!
By Marika Sboros UPDATE, October 16, 2017: Over 700 doctors and allied practitioners have now signed. This is big: nearly 200 doctors and allied health [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]
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]