 Sugar is marketed worldwide as a health food. Research suggests it is anything but.  It is often called ‘white poison’. In excess, the white stuff is shown to be unhealthy, to say the least. It causes obesity, say researchers, that in turn raises your risk of  hypertension, heart disease, stroke, even cancer, musculoskeletal disorders and dementia, … Read more
Tim Noakes’s Banting diet has taken South Africa by storm – its devotees include the CEO of a major JSE-listed company. But how does it work? Biznews columnist Heather Dugmore put the relevant questions to Noakes. What follows is a Dummy’s Guide to Banting – or we may call it “how to lose unwanted kilos … Read more
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
Reading this superb contribution by Heather Dugmore reminded me of two bits of business advice kept closest to my heart. One is how a reputation which takes a lifetime to build can be destroyed in an instant. The other is courtesy of Warren E Buffett who tells his 270 000 staffers that if they mistakenly … Read more
By Umaru Fofana and Media Coulibaly FREETOWN/KINSHASA (Reuters) – The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday it had shut a laboratory in Sierra Leone after a healthworker there was infected with Ebola, a move that may hamper efforts to boost the global response to the worst-ever outbreak of the disease. At least 1,427 people have died and 2,615 have been … Read more
GENEVA (Reuters) – The world’s worst Ebola outbreak, which has already affected four countries in West Africa, is likely to get worse in the coming months, the World Health Organization said on Friday. “The likelihood is that things will get worse before they get better,” Keiji Fukuda, the WHO’s head of health security, told reporters. … Read more
From Agence France-Presse – Swiss researchers say they have taken an important step towards a cure for arthritis,  successfully testing a prototype treatment in mice that may soon be trialled on humans. The experimental drug “fully cured” arthritic mice who had hobbled on inflamed and swollen toes and paws, scientists at the Swiss Federal Institute … Read more
By Chris Sibbet What have condoms got to do with Coke? Melinda Gates made a case in a September 2010 TED Talk that humanitarian agencies could use the Coca-Cola global logistics model to distribute medicines and sanitation (condoms included) to remote areas that need health care access. “Coke is everywhere!” she said. A remote Congolese village may … Read more
PRETORIA (Reuters) – South African Paralympic and Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius has post traumatic stress disorder and is at an increasing risk of suicide, according to a psychiatric report read out at his murder trial on Wednesday. Pistorius, a double amputee athlete, could face life in prison if he is found guilty of murdering his law graduate and … Read more
My relationship with Carl Grillenberger goes back to 1981. As a young reporter who had job-hopped his way to a living wage, I was attracted by an opportunity to buy into the property market. My entry was at the bottom end via a third floor apartment on hectically busy Clarendon Circle in Hillbrow – in … Read more