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BizNews Health covers cutting-edge research, advances, opinions and debates in medicine, health and wellbeing from orthodox, complementary and alternative perspectives. We have a special focus on nutrition, fitness, longevity medicine, and prevention of non-communicable diseases – such as obesity, cancer, type 2 diabetes, heart disease and stroke, increasingly mood disorders such as depression, and dementias. We include lifestyle and travel to healthy destinations, since mind and body are integrally connected, and optimum health is not just the absence of disease, but a state of complete physical, mental, and even spiritual wellbeing.
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
University of Cape Town sports scientist Prof Tim Noakes proves many things, including that there’s no use having a mind if you can’t change it. Change it he did in spectacular fashion a few years ago, over the role of cholesterol and saturated fat in heart disease. He says they are not the heart-health demons … 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
A blog on BizNews about Australian Olympic swimmer Ian Thorpe going into rehab for depression recently, raised the question: can depression ever be beaten? Human brand specialist, brand wellness consultant, educator and author Robert Opie argues that just like Everest, depression can never be truly “beaten”. The mentally healthy trick, he says, is to work with … 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
Imagine for a moment what life would be like if you started going blind. American athlete Michael Stone had to face that from a young age. Now ‘legally blind’, he chooses to set his sights above vision-imposed limitations. He races in gruelling triathlons to raise money in support of research into cures for genetic eye … Read more
It has been called ‘white poison’, which may be a little extreme – to some. Sugar in moderation is not necessarily damaging to your health, and it is a source of energy. However, it’s easy to consume far too much. Sugar is common not only in carbonated soft drinks, chocolates, cakes and sweets, but also … Read more
Here’s a nice change: profit-driven multinational pharmaceutical companies are seeing the value in collaboration and co-operation with competitors, it seems, to get new medicines onto the market sooner. Here’s hoping they spend just as much quality time making sure those medicines are safe, and don’t wait for the drugs to kill people before they … Read more