Breakfast – king, prince or pauper of meals? Your choice
By Miriam Cohen Breakfast is king – or pauper, depending on who you talk to. There was a time when most mothers believed in breakfast [more]
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Diabesity – best management with diet, drugs and more
By Regina Bates Diabesity is not yet an official medical diagnosis but it has become a dual epidemic in many countries, with adverse effects on [more]
Cancer: Fung sees the future, cracks the code
By Marika Sboros Are you or is anyone you love battling cancer? If so, you need Canadian nephrologist (kidney specialist) Dr Jason Fung on your [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]
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]
Infertility: ‘miracle’ foods beat drugs for PCOS?
By Marika Sboros Canadian naturopathic physician Nadia Pateguana has an enviable reputation for getting people pregnant. How did Pateguana acquire that unusual reputation? It’s in [more]
Hospital food: a cardiologist’s war on ‘obscene, processed junk’!
By Marika Sboros Hospitals are places of healing, dedicated to patients’ health, right? Wrong. They should be, of course, but they aren’t always. Particularly when [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.
Real food on trial: sit back, listen to the full story
By Marika Sboros Real Food On Trial is now available on audio from US-based Tantor Media. The sub-title speaks volumes: How The Diet Dictators Tried [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]
Academic mobbing at UCT: a neverending story
By Marika Sboros Academic bullying or mobbing as it has become known is an ugly phenomenon. It’s a scourge, endemic in even the best universities [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]
Fasting: quick ways to get rid of unwanted side effects
By Marika Sboros Fasting really is as old as the hills of ancient Greece. It’s a bedrock of traditional healing systems across the globe to [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]