‘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]
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Nutrition crisis: healing the harm from bad science
By Marika Sboros Crisis, you say. What crisis? If you’re talking nutrition science, it’s not just one crisis. Take your pick from related crises around [more]
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]
Dr David Unwin on nutrition during a virus pandemic
By Marika Sboros UK GP Dr David Unwin is receiving high praise globally from medical colleagues and other experts for his new low-carb study. It [more]
Naiman weighs in on low-carb versus low-fat wars
By Marika Sboros Among the plethora of diet books weighing down virtual shelves, I came across a quirky one: The P:E Diet by US physician [more]
Dr James Muecke eyes sugar, T2 diabetes: a ‘real pandemic’?
By Marika Sboros Australian ophthalmologist Dr James Muecke has clear vision. He wakes each day and sees in graphic, gory detail a threat hanging over [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]
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]
Fasting – benefits of life in the fast lane
By Marika Sboros Life In The Fasting Lane (Harper Wave) is a brave, new book on one of the oldest, traditional healing modalities. The [more]
Dr Mariela Glandt: sweet medicine to beat diabetes in Israel
By Marika Sboros A century ago, doctors looked on in awe as patients with type-1 diabetes responded to life-saving insulin therapy. These days, Israeli endocrinologist [more]
Dietitians: health hazards or mainstream healers in 2020?
Will dietitians be the movers and shakers who make LCHF go medical mainstream in 2020? A new LCHF online training course aims to equip dietitians to be healers rather than public-health hazards.
Israel wakes up to keto and low-carb
By Marika Sboros Dr Mariela Glandt is the brains behind Israel’s first keto, low-carb, high-healthy-fat (LCHF) conference. The event draws leading LCHF and nutrition experts [more]
Ketosis for kids: the real magic of mother’s milk
By Marika Sboros It’s not just parents who fear the “k” word – ketosis – for kids. Many, if not most, paediatricians and paediatric dietitians [more]
Heikkilä: Is he Finland’s Noakes or Fettke?
By Marika Sboros Is it most correct to call Dr Antti Heikkilä Finland’s Tim Noakes, Gary Fettke? What about Shawn Baker, Annika Dahlqvist or Èvelyne [more]
Shawn Baker: heavyweight medicine man in praise of meat
VITAL SIGNS By Marika Sboros US physician and orthopaedic surgeon Dr Shawn Baker once dreamt of owning a cheesecake factory. He also dreamt of being [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]
Exercise: you’re never too busy for its magic!
By Marika Sboros I’m a big fan of exercise – as we all should be. It makes intuitive sense that exercise is good for overall [more]
The Diet Fix: Finally, the ‘last word’ in weight loss
By Marika Sboros Are you battling to lose weight? Confused by the minefield of conflicting nutrition and weight-loss advice out there? Or are you simply [more]
Kendrick, Wikipedia and ‘dark forces’ waging war on science
By Marika Sboros When I heard that Wikipedia had deleted Scottish GP Dr Malcolm Kendrick’s profile, I was shocked. Not just because I’ve met Kendrick, [more]