Ketogenic diets – where REAL risk lies
Ketogenic (very low-carbohydrate) diets are becoming mainstream to treat a wide range of life-threatening and life-altering metabolic and neurological illnesses, ranging from type 2 diabetes [more]
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Diabetes – can you conquer it? Yes! A new book shows you the way
By Marika Sboros Can you conquer your diabetes? Sure you can. However, conquering it is a journey, not a destination. Fortunately, as the ancient Eastern [more]
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]
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]
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.
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]
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]
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]
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]
Herzegovina plays host to Keto Health Revolution
By Marika Sboros How easy is it to stay not just low-carb but keto (very low-carb) over the holidays, specially winter? Easy enough – when [more]
Harvard study: ‘Case against carbs, for fats grows stronger’
By Marika Sboros It’s not the definitive word for the best weight-loss diets but it’s close. And it doesn’t venture into the contentious plant- versus [more]
Fettke free at last as AHPRA drops all charges
By Marika Sboros Australian orthopaedic surgeon Dr Gary Fettke is a free and vindicated man. The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) has dropped all [more]
Low-carb diets will shorten your life? Fat chance!
By Marika Sboros Well, here’s a page-turner for the diet books. A new study in The Lancet Public Health claims that low-carb diets could be [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]
Swiss Re: Type 2 Diabetes CAN be reversed
By Marika Sboros You know something big is happening when the world’s second-largest reinsurer, Swiss Re, has its eye on the future of diabetes [more]