26 Jun Disruptive medical scientist Prof Tim Noakes on cancer, nutrition, Chalupsky, Ozempic and much more
Professor Tim Noakes exposes flaws in modern medicine, nutrition, and academia while championing evidence-based health....
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07 Apr Trend watch: Leveraging protein
Is inadequate protein intake the cause of globesity? This is an essential premise behind the concept of protein leveraging, one that offers interesting potential for the food industry.....
30 Oct What drives obesity – diets high in fat? Carbohydrates? Actually, it’s everything – and fructose is at the center
A new study led by University of Colorado researchers unifies a number of hypotheses behind the dietary cause of obesity that once seemed incompatible...
07 Mar Top eight foods that will reduce blood sugar
Did you know that over 30 million Americans have diabetes? A whopping 1.5 million of those got a diagnosis only three years ago, in 2015.
14 Sep How vegetable oils make us fat
Something has changed in the last hundred years, during which time obesity has transitioned from anomaly to epidemic. Why have we spontaneously started storing so many calories as fat? This is a fascinating, and credible, look at another hypothesis on one of the major NCDs blighting modern man.
29 May ‘Metabolical’ review: Yes, it is something you ate!
Dr Robert Lustig, ardent critic of the modern food industry, medicine and Big Pharma has launched a new book putting his case forward for a rethink on how the world eats and how medicine treats. Here's a review of it...
04 May Chatting to Tim Noakes: tweaking the LCHF diet, Covid-19 and his new book
Tim Noakes needs no introduction... listen to him on this podcast talking his new book, some modifications to his LCHF theory and the impact of Covid-19 on diabetics and the obese.
07 Feb Weight loss consumers seek the keto diet
While many things are different this year, one thing hasn’t changed: consumers’ desperate search for 'The Ultimate Diet' that will help them shed the Christmas/lockdown pounds.
27 Jan Gary Taubes: ‘Obesity isn’t a calorie problem, it’s a hormone problem’
The author of the new book, The Case for Keto, argues that conventional approaches to tackling obesity and diabetes aren’t working, and that low-carbohydrate diets could be the way forward.
14 Jan Aussie sugar-free ice cream business Denada grows into massive success
When pastry chef Charlotte Haygarth went sugar-free for a few months, she couldn’t turn back after seeing the positive effects. Curious to figure out how she could continue making treats sans sugar, she got experimenting in the kitchen which led to an invention that was nowhere to be seen on the market.
04 Mar Leading scientists agree: current limits on saturated fats no longer justified
A group of leading nutrition scientists, mainly from the US, has agreed that the most rigorous and current science fails to support a continuation of the US government’s policy limiting consumption of saturated fats.
26 Aug Back from the brink: how I reversed my T2 diabetes
Being diagnosed with out-of-control type 2 diabetes was a shock for Stuff science writer, John McCrone. But is this how we can all fight back? [Brilliant & enlightening read, great explanation of diabetes aetiology and how to reverse it. Ed]
19 Nov The case against carbohydrates gets stronger
Not all calories are alike. Here's the first big study - out of Harvard - with hard evidence to explain why....
08 Jun Opinion: Don’t manage diabetes, reverse it
Diabetes is reversible. That's the exciting conclusion of a study concluded at Indiana University Health. Its author explains...
26 Feb Tim oakes: Medical, scientific world watches as HPCSA decides his fate
South African scientist, Prof Tim Noakes, will know within 30 days if his regulatory body will fail in a last-ditch attempt to find him guilty. He will also know if it will have to pay dearly for doing so.
21 Feb World-eminent cardiologist debunks current dietary guidelines
One of the world's most regarded heart disease experts, cardiologist Dr Salim Yusuf, President of the World Heart Federation, recently delivered a talk at a Zurich cardiology conference outlining how his research finds fat is not harmful, even beneficial, while the high carb diet recommended...
08 Dec Yet another study suggests saturated fat could be good for you
A new Norwegian diet intervention study (FATFUNC), performed by researchers at the KG Jebsen center for diabetes research at the University of Bergen, raises questions regarding the validity of a diet hypothesis that has dominated for more than half a century: that dietary fat and...
08 Nov COMMENT: Noakes inquiry gives us much to chew on
The last thing ithe HPCSA needed was a clumsy, bruising and unnecessary battle with a media celebrity, writes Mike Wills.
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10 Oct How the USDA screwed up the American diet — and deprived me of so much delicious butter
Despite all the healthy-eating advice the US of A has been doling out since the 1960s, Americans aren’t living longer. We’re actually dying sooner. We’re immensely fatter. We’ve got diabetes in droves, high blood pressure in heaps, Himalayas of cholesterol. Maybe we should return...
12 Aug Canadian study shows LCHF works for diabesity, but that’s not the real message
Obesity and diabetes are so common these days, doctors often refer to them as diabesity. Here’s a small Canadian study in the SAMJ that posits a whole new paradigm in...