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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Smoking habits: how the addiction affects your relationship with food
Smoking remains one of the most addictive vices, despite being the leading cause of preventable deaths worldwide. A study in the BJM (British Medical Journal) [more]
Malnutrition: get ’em young, teach your children well and beat it
By Debra Holdren Malnutrition is a growing concern worldwide. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), almost 470 million adults and 200 million children suffer [more]
Want to live forever? Pop over to Iceland
By Marika Sboros Its title is one of Queen’s greatest hits: Who wants to live forever. The annual conference of the Icelandic Health Symposium (IHS) [more]
Sugar barometer: how much sweetness are you eating?
By Marika Sboros The Sugar Barometer™ is a sweet idea whose time has come. It’s a labeling product that aims to change sugar consumption patterns in [more]
Calorie craziness: dishing up the real dirt on CICO!
What’s with our obsession with the calorie? Do we even really know what we are talking about when we fuss about calories? My favourite health [more]
Microbiome: Gut instinct tells you why it’s so important
The ancient Greeks believed that all disease begins and ends in the gut. South African Jessica le Roux is on board with that thinking. She [more]
Physician, heal thyself, learn nutrition!
Here’s a brilliant blog everyone should read – doctors, patients, perfectly healthy people. It’s why doctors need to be frogmarched back to school if necessary to [more]
Low-carb works for diabetes – why don’t more doctors advise it?
By Marika Sboros Here’s food for thought: there is evidence to show that low-carb, high-fat (LCHF) diets work very well for people with type 2 [more]
What’s really feeding fat phobia if it’s not science?
FAT phobia is still rampant. Cardiologists and dietitians still routinely tell patients that saturated fat increases the risk of heart attack. That’s despite growing and compelling science to [more]