All seed oils safe to eat? Fat chance!
By Marika Sboros Globally, scientists say growing and compelling evidence reveals significant health risks associated with use of seed oils such as canola and sunflower [more]
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UK ‘FAT WARS’: MARTIN LUTHER MOMENT FOR MEDICINE?
It began with a powerful public statement in May 2016 by leading British doctors, dietitians and scientists demanding that orthodoxy in medicine confronts its terminal [more]
Framingham: fatal flaws in low-fat science for hearts
You may idly wonder sometimes why doctors and dietitians still trot out advice to eat a low-fat diet to protect your heart when there wasn’t [more]
NOAKES TRIAL: IT’S NOT REALLY ABOUT TWITTER!
THE Association of Dietetics in South Africa (ADSA) wants you to believe it only wants to muzzle world-renowned Prof Tim Noakes because he dared to [more]
Bring home the fat, say top UK doctors, dietitians
By Marika Sboros It’s official and from Britain’s highest medical and dietetic levels. Official dietary guidelines really are making you fat and sick. The high-carb, [more]
Will LCHF trigger a new heart disease epidemic?
Low-carb, high-fat (LCHF) diets will give you a heart attack. At least, that’s what doctors who endorse the so-called diet-heart hypothesis will tell you. That [more]
NOAKES ‘TRIAL OF THE 21ST CENTURY’: THE EVIDENCE – Part 1
By Marika Sboros Is there really any solid science behind Prof Tim Noakes’ views on butter, bacon, eggs and broccoli? In Part 1 of a riveting series [more]
NOAKES: DISHING UP ‘REAL MEAL’ DIRT ON ‘DOCTORS OF DISEASE
By Marika Sboros Many doctors “have outsourced their brains to the pharmaceutical industry”, says University of Cape Town emeritus professor Tim Noakes. Ditto for dietitians who [more]
NOAKES TRIAL: MAKING A ‘REAL MEAL’ OF CRITICS
University of Cape Town emeritus professor Tim Noakes generates abnormally high levels of venom from doctors and dietitians for a spectacular about-turn in favour of low-carb, [more]
Is Noakes REALLY South Africa’s next ‘Dr Death’?
By Marika Sboros I’ve watched with growing fascination how the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) is conducting its case against Prof Tim Noakes. [more]
Malhotra on the heart of good medicine
British consultant cardiologist Dr Aseem Malhotra is a keynote speaker at the first international low-carb, high-fat (LCHF) conference in Cape Town in February 2015. Malhotra [more]
‘Banting’: Noakes spreads the message to MPs in South Africa
By Marika Sboros South African MPs could soon be “Banting” – as low-carbohydrate, high-healthy fat eating is known in that country. Certainly, many look as [more]