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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‘Meat’ of plant-based diets: really best for people and planet?
By Marika Sboros Plant-based foods are a global trend. They are also blooming marvellous for bottom lines of companies producing these foods, as a Bloomberg [more]
Bikman on the hidden epidemic, why we get sick, how we heal
By Marika Sboros Every now and then comes a book that all physicians, scientists, researchers and lesser mortals should read. Why We Get Sick is [more]
COVID-19: is diet a weapon for protection, survival?
Revised* By Marika Sboros You could wait around hoping for a vaccine to fight COVID-19 or you could use a weapon already here, close at [more]
Facebook: why did it really take down a top low-carb group?
By Marika Sboros What’s really behind Facebook’s deletion of one of its biggest low-carb groups, the Banting 7 Day Meal Plans? The social media titan’s [more]
Statins: cardiologists take aim at heart of media support
By Marika Sboros The Guardian newspaper in the UK has been haemorrhaging readers for years. The newspaper’s recent uncritical support for medical orthodoxy and dogma [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]
Fibre: does ‘staff of life’ hold clue to prevent premature death?
By Marika Sboros A large New Zealand-led study on health benefits of dietary fibre is making waves in scientific circles. The authors of a meta-analysis [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]
PHC finally lays low-fat diets to rest – forever! Part 2
By Marika Sboros Are you on a low-fat, high-carb diet because your doctor or dietitian says that it’s “healthy”?That’s “fake news”, says Scottish professor of [more]
Vitamins: which ones you REALLY need and why
Confused about which vitamins to take or if you should take any at all? You are not alone. Scottish GP Dr Malcolm Kendrick is a [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]
Carnivore queen, white-hat hacker O’Hearn on magic of meat
VITAL SIGNS By Marika Sboros Today, Foodmed launches Vital Signs, an occasional series of Q&A interviews with those forging new paths in nutrition science globally. [more]
Kendrick on the Inuit, nosebleeds and heart disease
Scottish GP Dr Malcolm Kendrick says there is good reason that the Canadian Inuit had frequent nosebleeds but zero heart disease. Kendrick is an author [more]