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]
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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.
Cholesterol fears, hearts, fake news, the age game: who plays?
By Marika Sboros Many people have asked Scottish GP Malcolm Kendrick to comment on a controversial new study about cholesterol that is making headlines around [more]
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]
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]
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]
Mikhaila Peterson: Poster girl for a carnivore lifestyle
By Marika Sboros Canadian Mikhaila Peterson (26) has become the global poster girl for a carnivorous lifestyle. Mikhaila now eats meat and salt only and [more]
Nutrition Networks and the future of healthcare
By Marika Sboros Prof Tim Noakes is at it again. He’s spreading the word about low-carb, high-fat (LCHF), ketogenic therapies, challenging orthodoxy. This time not [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]
Noakes: ‘HPCSA will lose new war against me’
By Marika Sboros The Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) is back on the warpath against Prof Tim Noakes. It has also thrown down [more]
‘PURE’ PROOF FATS DON’T KILL, DIETARY GUIDELINES WRONG?
By Marika Sboros Major new research, the PURE study, is creating controversy about dietary guidelines globally. It shows that the more fat you eat, including [more]
KOSHER LOW-CARB LIFESTYLES: BEGINNER’S PATH TO BETTER HEALTH
By Marika Sboros If you are Jewish and kosher then this book is for you. Even if you aren’t Jewish or kosher, it’s still for [more]
TIME FOR BIG FOOD TO GET TASTE OF OWN MEDICINE?
By Marika Sboros There’s something deliciously karmic about giving Big Food a taste of its own medicine. Years ago, I interviewed the head dietitian for [more]
Virta Health visionary behind diabetes ‘cure’ of the future
By Marika Sboros For diabetes treatment of the future, look no further than Virta Health. The US start-up is an online specialty medical clinic with a [more]
NOAKES TRIAL: DID DISGRUNTLED DIETITIANS SET HIM UP?
By Marika Sboros Prof Tim Noakes had no patient on Twitter and his tweet caused no harm to anyone. So, what did two days [more]
NOAKES AND THE WOMAN WHO HOLDS THE KEY TO HIS FATE
By Marika Sboros What’s really behind the prosecution of scientist Prof Tim Noakes? Is it just a single tweet to a breastfeeding mother, which even [more]
Naudé Review: no mistakes, mischief against Noakes and Banting?
By Marika Sboros The Naudé Review by South African scientists, published in PLoS One in 2014, was once a star in the firmament of scientists [more]
New Noakes Banting book: small size, big science shift
By Marika Sboros It’s a simple enough question: why is Banting so popular yet still so controversial in South Africa and globally? The answer, scientist [more]
DOES DAA TARGET DISSIDENT DIETITIANS WITH FAKE NEWS?
By Marika Sboros When the Dietitians Association of Australia (DAA) isn’t dishing up fake nutrition news to the public, it makes up fake news to [more]