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]
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LCHF slips into medical mainstream at PHC event! PART 1
By Marika Sboros If you harbour any doubt that low-carb, high-healthy-fat (LCHF) diets are becoming medical mainstream, the recent Public Health Collaboration (PHC) annual conference [more]
Sugar tax – usual suspects say, ‘It wasn’t us!’
A sugar tax is a good thing, right? It’s a significant step to resolve obesity and type 2 diabetes pandemics? Public-health experts want you to [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]
Noakes: medical, scientific worlds watch as HPCSA decides his fate
By Marika Sboros South African scientist Prof Tim Noakes could know by the end of March if his regulatory body will fail in its last-ditch [more]
Noakes: globally, doctors call on HPCSA to stop prosecuting him
By Marika Sboros Leading doctors and scientists in the US, Canada and Australia have signed an open letter to the Health Professions Council of South [more]
Healthy diet: Modern medicine’s ‘big mistake’
By Marika Sboros If you’re expecting scientific consensus on just what constitutes a “healthy diet” in 2018, don’t hold your breath. Many doctors and dietitians [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]
Dr Evelyne Bourdua-Roy: Canada’s Tim Noakes?
By Marika Sboros Quebec family physician Dr Èvelyne Bourdua-Roy could become “Canada’s Tim Noakes”. Bourdua-Roy’s regulatory body, the Quebec College of Physicians, is investigating her [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]
Low-fat good for you? Experts keep zombie myth alive
The low-fat diet for heart disease and other serious chronic diseases is a zombie myth, say some doctors and nutrition experts. Those who keep it [more]
‘PURE’ proof that fats don’t kill and dietary guidelines are wrong?
By Marika Sboros PURE is the acronym for a major new (Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology) cohort study that is creating controversy about dietary guidelines globally. [more]
Kosher low-carb lifestyles for beginners – and not just for Jews
By Marika Sboros If you are Jewish and kosher then this book is for you. Even if you aren’t kosher or Jewish, it’s still for [more]
Low-Carb Companion: a new best friend for life
By Marika Sboros Low-carb books are not yet a dime a dozen but they are weighing down shelves in bookstores and in cyberspace. The Low-Carb Companion should fly [more]
Lifestyle medicine: Big Religion’s new front in old war on red meat?
By Marika Sboros Lifestyle medicine sounds benign enough. By design or default, it may also be a cover for Big Religion’s new front in its [more]
Virta Health visionary behind a diabetes ‘cure’ of the future
By Marika Sboros For the future of diabetes treatment, look no further than the US start-up Virta Health and its visionary founder and CEO 41-year-old [more]
How to eat yourself well – the rise of the ‘micropowers’
By Marika Sboros Can you eat yourself sick? Of course, you can. Knowing how is liberating because if you can eat yourself sick, you can [more]
Groundhog Day as the HPCSA goes after Noakes again
By Marika Sboros Groundhog Day or deja vue? Take your pick. The Health Professions Council of SA (HPCSA) has announced an appeal against its own [more]
ADSA – dealing with defeat in ‘Nutrition Trial of the 21st Century
By Marika Sboros If defeat is best seen through the lens of a life lesson, the leaders of the Association for Dietetics in South Africa [more]