🔒 Going ‘California Sober’ may be bad for your heart: Lisa Jarvis
In a recent study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, evidence is growing that regular cannabis use may pose risks to heart health.
In a recent study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, evidence is growing that regular cannabis use may pose risks to heart health.
In Part 11 of Prof Tim Noakes’ series on insulin resistance, he concludes with a rap sheet detailing Ancel Keys’ criminal misconduct.
Pear-shaped people, or those who store more fat around the hips, could be healthier than the apple-shaped, who carry more belly fat around their waists.
Buried in South Africa’s colliding epidemics of HIV/AIDS, violence and trauma, and high maternal and child mortality is a behavioural time-bomb; lifestyle or non-communicable diseases.
Right now South Africa can’t get enough of Tim Noakes. The sports scientist expanded his nutrition work on super athletes to himself and after years of confusion reached some very definite conclusions. But what he now recommends has been hotly countered by vested interests – turning the previously popular professor into persona non grata in … Read more
It is regularly called ‘white poison’, toxic, deadly, addictive, a killer, and the driver behind obesity, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and even cancer – just about the worst PR anyone could ever imagine. But does sugar really deserve such a bad rep? Yes and no, depending on who you speak to. Some nutrition specialists … Read more
There’s something about statins that makes even the most intelligent doctor say silly things – such as that everyone over 40 should take them, even that children should be given them. Statins  have a reputation as  ‘wonder drugs’ for prevention of deaths from cardiovascular disease. The real wonder is how these drugs have become the … Read more
Your heart rate can change in seconds, depending on what you are doing and feeling, whether you are standing up, sitting down,  exercising vigorously, or having a romantic Valentine’s Day tryst. The aim is to get your heart rate up often enough, so that  settles down into a slow rate at rest. That will help … Read more
We talk so much on this blog about money and wealth that we can sometimes forget that there’s more to life, like friends, family, and health. In this blog, dietician and speaker Celynn Erasmus reminds us of what really matters when she talks frankly about how to keep your heart healthy. Often, we think that … Read more