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Marika Sboros - Journalist, editor, author.

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Interests: body-mind health, food as medicine, politics, religion, travel. Passions: family, Israel🇮🇱, Greece, animals, Killer Sudoku . RTs ≠ endorsements

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Marika Sboros - Journalist, editor, author.

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Savage, sadistic slaughter has forever silenced the voices of most of the women, girls, men brutally raped by Hamas, other terrorists in Israel on October 7. Watch this video, speak out and your voice will ensure that their voices will be heard forever:

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A must-watch documentary. #ScreamsBeforeSilence sheds light on the unspeakable sexual violence committed on October 7. As heartbreaking as these stories in t...

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Marika Sboros - Journalist, editor, author.

4 years

@NoahShachtman What on this earth took @CNN and @NBCNews so long! And that's really rhetorical! Good move! Time to muzzle that madman.

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@realDonaldTrump Oh my word! You really are a weirdo. And as for missing the WW1 ceremony because of a little rain! Here's how a REAL president copes with the rain! And here's what a REAL leader says about standing in the rain to honour war dead!

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Marika Sboros - Journalist, editor, author.

7 years

JA: Committee finds @ProfTimNoakes NOT GUILTY. applause! #noakestrial

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Marika Sboros - Journalist, editor, author.

6 years

Hmmm. An article in The Guardian in 2016 on who started the enduring myth that ' #breakfast is the most important meal of the day'. Spoiler alert: it wasn't your mother or her mother. It was the #cereal industry with Kellogg's at the helm... Surprise?

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How lobbyists made breakfast 'the most important meal of the day'

We’ve tied all sorts of ills to a failure to sit down to a hearty breakfast. But research and history show that skipping our granola bowl does not, in fact, harm our health

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Well, here's one for the record books! @HPCSA_ FINALLY does the decent thing! Exonerates @ProfTimNoakes completely! Well done to instructing attorney @MisterPikester , Adv Mike van der Nest SC and Dr Ravin 'Rocky' Ramdass. And the Angels @zoeharcombe @bigfatsurprise and @CarynZinn

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Marika Sboros - Journalist, editor, author.

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Took long enough, cost a ridiculous amount of money, caused emotional devastation, but in the end, scientific evidence and sanity prevailed. My review of Friday's appeal verdict in trial of @ProfTimNoakes @LDLSkeptic @gillespi @drjoesDIYhealth

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Noakes free at last, HPCSA licks its legal wounds -

Prof Tim Noakes has won his final battle with the Health Professions Council of South Africa on a charge of professional misconduct for a single tweet.

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Marika Sboros - Journalist, editor, author.

6 years

Funny how quick some MDs are to attack Dr Jason Fung for preferring not to drug his diabetic patients out of existence! He puts patients before profits. Not all MDs do. That's why @DrAseemMalhotra is on a mission to force the practice of 'honest medicine'!

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Low carb diet ‘should be first line of approach to tackle type 2 diabetes’ and prolong lifespan Read more at:

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@CBCAlerts Oh, my! @reaDonaldTrump wears his heart full of love for the #Saudis on his sleeve. Omitted to tell them to say thank you to him for helping them cover up their murder of journalist, American resident and Saudi dissident #JamalKhashoggi .

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4 years

Why James Cameron's reputation is sinking, along with all those who helped, and why The Games Changers is ultimately such a dishonest movie: just more #vegan /animal rights propaganda. My review in @BDliveSA :

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MARIKA SBOROS: Vegan hype of titanic proportions is a game changer in diet spin

James Cameron’s documentary The Game Changers is a shocking show of unscientific bias

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4 years

Next time anyone says an #engineer can't possibly know more about heart disease than a cardiologist, 1st low-carb #keto conf in #Israel disproves it. Ivor Cummins @FatEmperor speaking right now to riveted audience of more than 500 delegates, many MDs, dietitians. #Metabolix2019

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It takes a sturdy, strong heart to go against conventional medical 'wisdom' in this way. All credit to British cardiologist @DrAseemMalhotra for showing his colleagues how to put patients before profits.

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Marika Sboros - Journalist, editor, author.

3 years

Brilliant! #Ronaldo puts the boot into @CocaCola ! Shouts 'Drink #water !'

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'Drink water' Cristiano Ronaldo removes Coca-Cola bottles at start of #Euro2020 press conference

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Hmm. FB friend has had this @ProfTimNoakes quote pinned since 2016. 700 shares. @facebook suddenly removed it, won't say why, won't put it back! What on earth is Facebook up to? Censorship on behalf of vested interests? Or just grossly incompetent?

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All to nail @ProfTimNoakes ? SA's top unis vow of silence over ethics professor's 'highly irregular conduct' and academics' dodgy research?

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Marika Sboros - Journalist, editor, author.

5 years

@CamiAnnS @realDonaldTrump Perhaps @NASA should send this man to the #moon soonest and leave him there?

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Marika Sboros - Journalist, editor, author.

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@realDonaldTrump This manchild REALLY doesn't understand democracy! Someone really should put a muzzle on him. His adolescent tantrums make him an embarrassment to his country and to #democracy . My Greek ancestors who gave democracy (and the word) to the world must be gyrating in their graves!

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Marika Sboros - Journalist, editor, author.

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@PressSec @realDonaldTrump @FLOTUS Must be such a relief not to have to be lying in public for your boss for a short while! No wonder you look like you are enjoying yourself! You should tell the truth more often?

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7 years

Hugely emotional reaction from BOTH sides to Innocent verdict. Even doctor who dissented broke down in tears! #noakestrial

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Marika Sboros - Journalist, editor, author.

5 years

No big fat surprise? Turns out @Wikipedia 's 'guest editor' who deleted Dr Malcolm Kendrick @malcolmken is a #vegetarian (probably #vegan ?) Dr Kendrick has challenged him to a scientific duel: @ProfTimNoakes @bigfatsurprise @FructoseNo

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Kendrick, Wikipedia and 'dark forces' waging war on science

Wikipedia' deletion of Dr Malcolm Kendrick is another salvo in a broader societal war 'between scientific enlightenment and the forces of darkness'.

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Marika Sboros - Journalist, editor, author.

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Reversal, remission, 'cure', who cares what you call it? If patients don't need drugs, have no symptoms, shouldn't ALL doctors prescribe this as 1st resort for type 2 #diabetes ? Ask @virtahealth 's @DrSarahHallberg . @Bruceps @DrAseemMalhotra @drjasonfung

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Diet shown to reverse diabetes

Reinsurer Swiss Re hosts conference on treatment of the global disease

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How @MikhailaAleksis Peterson saved herself from life-threatening auto-immune illness and deep depression - by ignoring conventional medical, dietary 'wisdom' and going #keto #carnivore . @SBakerMD @tednaiman @AnnChildersMD @jordanbpeterson

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Canadian Mikhaila Peterson rescued herself from life-threatening auto-immune illness by ignoring conventional medical and dietary "wisdom" – and going carnivorous.

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Marika Sboros - Journalist, editor, author.

6 years

Brilliant commentary, as usual, from Dr Richard Feinman SUNY professor of biochemistry and medical researcher! @ProfTimNoakes via @FructoseNo

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Marika Sboros - Journalist, editor, author.

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@realDonaldTrump Proof from the transcript, please, where that proves the investigation illegal. Oh, silly me. I forgot. You deal in fantasy, not facts. You also don't understand that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Mueller does. That's why he keeps digging.

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6 years

Oh wow! #DAA goes into panic mode as Aussie PM loses weight by dropping the #carbs ! #LCHF

How Prime Minister Scott Morrison slimmed down in just three weeks

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has dramatically slimmed down his waistline in just three weeks. Australia's leading dietitians have explained how this occurred but issued a warning.

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Member of audience says Atkins diet, saturated fat, increases heart disease, cancer, etc. @DrSarahHallberg asks: 'On what data?' No answer ... #Food4Thought18

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All US journalists should take a leaf out of British interviewer @afneil 's brilliant book when dealing with slippery interview weasels - like #BritainsTrump @BorisJohnson . Keep 'em on the hook!! @Acosta @AprilDRyan :

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Marika Sboros - Journalist, editor, author.

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@FructoseNo @AHPRA @ProfTimNoakes @bigfatsurprise @zoeharcombe @lowcarbGP @lowcarb_aus @grantsnz @BelindaFettke @DikemanDave @DrAseemMalhotra @SenatorSurfer Finally, a medical establishment body does the right thing. A bit late, but as Dr @zoeharcombe says: Better late than never! And sorry must mean: We won't ever do it again!

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FETTKE FREE AT LAST: AHPRA DROPS ALL CHARGES!

The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) has dropped all charges against Dr Gary Fettke and apologised.

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Marika Sboros - Journalist, editor, author.

4 months

Why, just why is there no world outrage over this? #Kfir

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100 DAYS. No @ICRC visits. No sunlight. No oxygen. #BringThemHomeNow #BelieveIsraeliWomen #HamasRapists

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My new bestie, @MatthewEvansFPF . Excerpt from his new book, On Eating Meat, nails #vegan virtue-signalling to the cross in all its naked glory. An evidence-based soupçon he dishes up: 'The number of animals that die to produce vegan food is astonishing.'

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Brilliant takedown of @joerogan and his petulant demands that distinguished scientist Prof @PeterHotez appear on his show to debate #RFKJr . No sane scientist worth his/her salt would bother to debate RFKJr and here's why:

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Do scientists debate? Not like that they don’t

This is gonna bit a bit of a rant like the old days of blogging. A few days ago we had anti-vaccine crank and poison pill presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. show up on Joe Rogan’s e…

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Marika Sboros - Journalist, editor, author.

6 years

Saturated fat causes heart disease? Bollocks! And so says Dr @malcolmken . I'd like to see any MD dare to debate this with him in public: @MichaelEmeryMD @DrAseemMalhotra @ProfTimNoakes #cholesterol #heartdisease

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Saturated fat causes heart disease? Bollocks, says Kendrick! -

Scottish GP Dr Malcolm Kendrick explains why so many doctors and dietitians STILL dish up junk about saturated fat and cholesterol.

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Marika Sboros - Journalist, editor, author.

4 years

Note to self: when #vegan trolls test you next, follow @ProfTimNoakes 's lead. He is so much more restrained than I would be under these circumstances. But sometimes #vegan trolls like this one deserve to be served a decent hot #meat meal. Liver and onions?

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5 years

Pardon this little rant: what really infuriates me about those who made up low-fat dietary guidelines: they were experimenting on us. They refuse to acknowledge their error or apologise. No guts ... or ethics ... or humility ...

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Indeed, low fat dietary recommendations were a big experiment - with massive implications. And I have yet to see the humility on the part of the architects of dietary guidance. Just more corruption of the process...

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A doctor does a public mea culpa for recommending SAD (standard American diet) to his patients because he "did not yet know better". Takes great courage to admit you got it wrong - and to stop getting it wrong! Remind you of anyone? @ProfTimNoakes @FructoseNo

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All a young doctor knows is what he has been taught. During the first few years of my career I recommended the standard American diet to patients because I did not yet know better. 🥦 I truly apologize to all my patients to whom I have recommended the…

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Yippee Yay! @facebook @fbnewsroom did the right thing, reinstated the brilliant Rita Venter's @xeyedmess Banting 7 Day Meal Plan support group page. Now 1.6m people, many (most?) in South Africa, can get the help they need to use diet instead of drugs to boost their health!

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7 years

Oh my word! We knew it in 1951 then dietitians got involved, doctors started deferring to them? via @DiscoStew66 @ProfTimNoakes @FructoseNo

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4 years

First thought this was a joke. Would be really funny were it not meant to be deadly serious. A junk-science, plant-based, propaganda movie made by #vegans , accredited by American College of Lifestyle for CME points. Tells you all you need to know about it.

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Oh dear... #GameChangersMovie #GameChangers #vegan propaganda accredited by American College of Lifestyle Medicine founded by Seventh-day Adventists at Loma Linda

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Yippee! US-based South African bariatric surgeon Dr Robert Cywes says of #LoreofNutrition : "An incredible book that should be standard text for any medical, nutrition, journalism and MBA or administration class." @ProfTimNoakes @JeffryGerberMD

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@greggschuder @Jillsey11 Whew! What a relief to know there are at least some in the family of #MoscowMitch @senatemajldr with integrity, ethics and common decency! History will not judge him well.

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4 years

Not saying we should not all take precautions, wash hands, but a healthy dose of perspective also helps? This from Nobel laureate and Stanford professor Michael Levitt on stats showing #coronavirus already on a downturn:

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At heart, what drove me to write Lore Of Nutrition with @ProfTimNoakes , a quote from one of my heroes:

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Will ANY of the many doctors, dietitians and academics and their universities involved in this shocking trial ever have the courage to stand up and say: 'I'm sorry!'? We name and shame them all in #LoreofNutrition

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All to nail @ProfTimNoakes ? SA's top unis vow of silence over ethics professor's 'highly irregular conduct' and academics' dodgy research?

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Wow! More than 9000 doctors globally have joined lone local voice calling on @HPCSA_ and @ADSA_RD to stop prosecuting @ProfTimNoakes ! HPCSA appeal takes place in Pretoria tomorrow, Feb 21 to 23. @BenBikmanPhD @DrAseemMalhotra

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NOAKES: TOP DOCTORS CALL ON HPCSA TO DROP APPEAL!

More than 9000 top doctors and scientists globally have signed an open letter calling on the Health Professions Council of South Africa to stop prosecuting Prof Tim Noakes

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Will there ever come a time when industry-led #dietitians who prescribe this for #diabetics are charged with malpractice? @lowcarbGP @ProfTimNoakes @BenBikmanPhD

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@FructoseNo Nephew diagnosed yesterday with T1.D. Brekky served this morning at Qld Children’s Hospital. Rice Bubbles, banana, jam, bread,apple juice...what the!!!??😩😩🙄🙄

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@krassenstein Would like to see White House Press Corps showing the spine of @Acosta @AprilDRyan and a very few others!

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4 years

When this #paediatrician speaks, I listen! So should you: ' #Sugar is the alcohol of the child.' Dietitian on @ChaiFM this morning said best breakfast food for kids: #fruit ! Kiss of death (figuratively speaking) for kids with any insulin resistance? @lowcarbGP @ProfTimNoakes

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4 years

Ready to quit sugar? Join our 30 Day Sugar Freedom Challenge here:

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Wonder how many waiters have thought of saying this? #vegan @SBakerMD

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7 years

What @HPCSA_ proved against @ProfTimNoakes after 3 years and R10m spent: @VinnieTortorich @bigfatsurprise

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@zoeharcombe @guardian @sarahboseley It's what we call in the trade a 'hatchet job'. The headline makes that clear. Another error-riddled establishment pushback. Not unusual for @guardian to let itself be used like this. The editor is as responsible as the reporter for letting this through, ignoring evidence, COIs.

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Fascinating but sad to watch MDs unravel as they try hard, fail miserably to discredit @ProfTimNoakes . 1st claimed he is #vaccine denialist. Failed. Now claim he's #climatechange denialist. Sad dears don't know difference between asking questions on and denying an issue?🤦‍♀️🙅‍♀️🤷‍♀️

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Yay! Thank you @kevinnbass for acknowledging my work! Despite blocking me, no idea why, hardly engaged with him. Humbled that he has included me on this stellar list of some of the world's top thinkers on evidence for nutrition, health, food as medicine! Career highlight!

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Phew. I made the list alongside so many world-leading thinkers! A great moment in anyone's career.

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My Twitter 'spies' tell me some #dietitians (one in particular) have VERY thin skins. Have even begged their buddies to report me to Twitter to try to shut me up 🤐! All because they don't like my evidence-based opinions on their COIs. Silly, silly women. Aluta continue! 🤣🤣🤣

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This is what really annoys me about doctors who think they know it all, neurologists, paediatricians especially culpable here, wedded to drug model of disease. Send them back to school to learn to drugs as last, not first, resort for certain conditions. IOW - First do no harm.

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@WeDietitians @lowcarbdiabetic @ChapeauToYou @colinmstone @GidMK @FatEmperor @ProfTimNoakes @MarikaSboros @rob_omgwtf @zoeharcombe @DrAseemMalhotra @FructoseNo @DiscoStew66 @CarynZinn 20 years of neurologists, epilepsy medication that didn't work and tests, and not once would they support the idea of keto for my epilepsy. Did it on my own and am now almost 1.5 years seizure-free and off all meds, no thanks to them.

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Silence from @HPCSA_ on ruling from its own appeal committee in its ongoing prosecution of @ProfTimNoakes is deafening! 2 months over its own deadline. Pathologically deviant breach of its own legal and ethical rules. @PeterBrukner @DrAseemMalhotra @MisterPikester

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Hmmm. That belly @BillGates carries flags insulin resistance? Beer 'boep' or bad investment in #vegan #vegetarian diets, pushing people to eat less #meat , more plants to save the planet? He needs #LCHF #keto to save himself? Should eat like the other 3 in the pic? #MatchForAfrica

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Not a tennis fan, but the energy in Cape Town looks amazing 💪🏽 Trevor Noah did THAT 🔥 #MatchForAfrica

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Dr David Unwin @lowcarbGP once practised "fear"-based medicine. Now practises medicine "of hope", gives patients info, explanation about their metabolic condition. BTW, in his practice, he saved NHS £52000, not just £45000, in diabetes drugs not prescribed. #Metabolix2019 #Israel

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Yippee! Guess with whom I'm privileged to be co-authoring a book? Scientific thriller/kiss and tell!

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Health24

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What started out as a tweet, is now being transformed into an avalanche of words. Exclusive with @ProfTimNoakes :

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He's at it again: @DrAseemMalhotra teams up with #Tameside Hospital in world-1st call for community to DITCH #SUGAR ! for 70 days on eve of #NHS 70th anniversary! Inspired! @TamesideCouncil @ThinkingSlimmer @NHSEngland

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UK hospital in world first call: Ditch sugar! -

Tameside Hospital in Greater Manchester has issued a world-first 70-day challenge to the 250,000 people it serves to go Ditch Sugar.

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5 years

Wow! If ever there were a good ad for a carnivore diet! This, via my favourite carnivore, Dr @SBakerMD #Yes2Meat

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Down 120lbs since starting Carnivore diet in March of 2018- say #yes2meat #meatheals #humanfood

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Want to save your sight, your limbs and your love life – and make yourself less susceptible to #COVID19 ? Eat less carbohydrate, more fat and get your blood sugar under control, says Aussie ophthalmologist Dr James Muecke:

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Muecke eyes sugar and T2 diabetes: the 'real pandemic'?

Australian of the Year 2020, ophthalmologist James Muecke, has clear vision. Daily, he sees gory detail of threat to Australian lives. It's not COVID-19.

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6 years

What in heaven is happening at Harvard? 1st, Harvard researchers claim low-carb diets could kill you, then Harvard prof claims #CoconutOil is 'pure poison'. Tell that to the Polynesians! Top UK cardiologist @DrAseemMalhotra is not amused!

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Marika Sboros - Journalist, editor, author.

6 years

Here's why @DrAseemMalhotra really is an unusual cardiologist, the best kind - one with real heart: He coined this phrase. It can revolutionise medicine and prevent too much medicine! Keep it in your heart and mind from now on!

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4 years

Wonder why medical schools STILL don't teach #LCHF ? Not because it's a fad but because it's NOT a fad and it threatens interests of Big Food and Big Pharma who control medical education, says one who knows, Aussie orthopaedic surgeon Dr Gary Fettke.

@FructoseNo

Gary Fettke

4 years

The Failure of Medical Education: Why is #LCHF not being taught at medical school? Med education controlled by #Pharma and #BigFood for over a century. Know the history to understand the forces against health now. My latest talk via @lowcarbdownunder 🙏🏼

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Marika Sboros - Journalist, editor, author.

4 years

Harvard-trained endocrinologist Dr Mariela Glandt: 'Doctors can no longer ignore evidence that conventional drug treatment for T2 #diabetes doesn't work long-term. A lot of our advice, treatment makes patients fatter, sicker, coming back for more drugs.'

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Dr Mariela Glandt: medical mission against diabetes in Israel

Dr Mariela Glandt is on a mission: to revolutionise mainstream medical treatment for type-2 diabetes in Israel and globally.

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Marika Sboros - Journalist, editor, author.

5 years

Oh, my word! But no big fat surprise: #vegan animal rights activists won't like this: 'Grass-fed beef is more eco-friendly than Impossible Burger and Beyond Burger'. This classic via Diana Rodgers, RD - that rare but growing breed of RD who doesn't dish up dogma.

@SustainableDish

Diana Rodgers, RD

@SustainableDish

5 years

This is big: Grass-fed beef is more eco-friendly than Impossible Burger and Beyond Burger. It's actually a net carbon sink. YESSSSS 2 meat. #yes2meat

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Marika Sboros - Journalist, editor, author.

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To all MDs and #dietitians still plaintively demanding evidence for #LCHF to treat, prevent T2 #diabetes while not demanding same for the high-carb, low-fat diets they peddle: 6 years long-term enough to satisfy them? Or they prefer to carry on peddling drugs and dogma?

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Dr David Unwin

3 years

PUBLISHED! We wanted to showcase what a low-carb approach could achieve for people with #T2D in UK NHS general practice Our @BMJNutrition paper published today. Open access PLEASE read it HUGE thanks to patients and staff @nnedpro Hurrah!

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Marika Sboros - Journalist, editor, author.

5 years

Don't mistake academic 'mobbing' for academic politics. The mobbing can be lethal - and criminal. But why won't the University of Cape Town and its Health Science Faculty just say sorry for mobbing one of their most distinguished own @ProfTimNoakes ?

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Marika Sboros - Journalist, editor, author.

5 years

Finally! The 'last word' in weight loss: The Diet Fix by Dr @zoeharcombe . Here's why it really is a gamechanger:

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Marika Sboros - Journalist, editor, author.

5 years

Seriously! Complete remission of #schizophrenia on a #keto diet. That's big! Will all those industry-led MDs and #dietitians out there who keep trashing this diet and calling it a fad for their own ends just stop. It's looking like a much better option than dangerous drugs?

@Mangan150

P. D. Mangan Health & Freedom Maximalist 🇺🇸

5 years

Complete remission of schizophrenia with a ketogenic diet. No meds, and a 150 lb. weight loss.

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Marika Sboros - Journalist, editor, author.

2 years

Understandable but sad and concerning! Some low-carbers tell me they've turned away from that way of eating. No longer trust advice from low-carb 'movement' leading lights who've revealed themselves as #antivaxxers , #COVID19 denialists, conspiracy theorists. 😷😲🤦🏾‍♀️

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Marika Sboros - Journalist, editor, author.

4 years

Go #vegan if you must in #Veganuary2020 . Just don't fool yourself that you are doing yourself or the planet's health any favors.

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Marika Sboros - Journalist, editor, author.

6 years

Many thanks to @TwitterSupport for realising that they locked my account inappropriately and have ASAP! Not the first time this has happened! @zoeharcombe @bigfatsurprise @ProfTimNoakes @CarynZinn

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Marika Sboros - Journalist, editor, author.

5 years

I know someone very close and very dear to me who would agree 100% with this opinion: Male infant circumcision is 'non-consensual male genital mutilation'. And like #FGM should be banned as a 'gross violation of a basic human right to an intact body'. Opinions?

@KurtLass1

Kurt Lass

5 years

Male infant circumcision is non-consensual male genital mutilation. Like FGM it should be banned because it is a gross violation of a basic human right to an intact body.

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Marika Sboros - Journalist, editor, author.

5 years

ICYMI! Excellent post by US psychiatrist @GeorgiaEdeMD on why your brain needs more animal #fat not #sugar and other high #carb foods:

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The Brain Needs Animal Fat

Why humans can't thrive on plants alone.

www.psychologytoday.com

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Marika Sboros - Journalist, editor, author.

6 years

And the next time any cardiologist tells you that #keto kills, I will set @DrAseemMalhotra and other open-minded, evidence-based cardiologists on to them. I've never heard such nonsense in my life - well, that's not strictly true, but this claim takes the keto cake!

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Marika Sboros - Journalist, editor, author.

5 years

The high price for those who dare to go against "the grain", whether it be nutritional, political or any kind of science you can think of ... all credit to @helenzille for her courage under fire!

@RenaldoGouws

Ngamla Gouws 🇿🇦

5 years

Helen Zille ( @helenzille ) has always been ahead of her time. Under Apartheid, she was classified as "crazy" for wanting equal treatment and rights for all South Africans. Now, after 25 years into our democracy, she is once again classified as "crazy" for wanting the same.

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4 years

0h dear! #vegan fast food meals will raise your risk of #heart attack.. . Who would ever have guessed?

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Marika Sboros - Journalist, editor, author.

5 years

The next time your doctor or #dietitian tells you that #vegetarian #vegan diets are healthier than those with animal foods, show them this!

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Marika Sboros - Journalist, editor, author.

6 years

DU: everytime I hear that fruit and veg are so important for #diabetes , 'a little bit of me dies'. 'Pet hate of mine is the banana. Almost without exception overweight people love bananas.' #PHCLon2018

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Marika Sboros - Journalist, editor, author.

6 years

New evidence on what Big Food, Big Pharma gets up to, to influence dietary advice, coerce doctors into giving unnecessary treatment: Watch Euro Parliament April 12 talk by @DrAseemMalhotra and other docs livestream on FB by @DietDoctor1 ! Please RT!

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Marika Sboros - Journalist, editor, author.

6 years

Wow! Over 25,000 doctors, dietitians, scientists, others globally support @ProfTimNoakes in his battle against @HPCSA_ , @ADSA_RD @DietitianClaire , others trying to silence him for his scientific opinions. Why aren't more in South Africa speaking out?

@4dietaryreform

Nutrition Coalition

@4dietaryreform

6 years

Phenomenal response to this effort thanks to so many advocates out there....wish we could name them all! Pushing over 25K signatures. @DietDoctor1 @DrAseemMalhotra @DietDoctor1 @FatEmperor @MaryanneDemasi @zoeharcombe @MarikaSboros @tednaiman @lowcarbGP

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Marika Sboros - Journalist, editor, author.

6 years

Yippee! My article in @BDliveSA on @MikhailaAleksis and her father Dr @jordanbpeterson 's radical change to a #meat only diet is most read story today! #LCHF @ProfTimNoakes

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Academic’s meat-only diet ruffles feathers

Psychology professor and daughter credit carnivorous diet with curing autoimmune illnesses and depression

www.businesslive.co.za

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Marika Sboros - Journalist, editor, author.

6 years

Yippee! Another brave South African doctor who doesn't think #LCHF #keto are of the devil. Welcome to Dr Lawrence Retief on Foodmed's Low Carb World Map. Who's next from SA? Numbers still small compared to rest of the world! @ProfTimNoakes

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Marika Sboros - Journalist, editor, author.

6 years

@MarkMyerson @HPCSA_ @ProfTimNoakes @MisterPikester @zoeharcombe @bigfatsurprise @CarynZinn Now watch in horrified fascination as all those doctors, dietitians, academics who conspired, colluded, campaigned to try to destroy Prof Noakes stay silent, refuse to say sorry. We name and shame them all in #LoreofNutrition .

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Marika Sboros - Journalist, editor, author.

5 years

Could someone please explain exactly why some #dietitians and their voluntary associations believe they should have a monopoly on dispensing dietary advice to the public? How do they and their regulatory bodies think the public managed before dietetics was invented in the 1960s?

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Marika Sboros - Journalist, editor, author.

4 years

@SethAbramson @washingtonpost More grist to @SpeakerPelosi ' impeachment mill but surely @Twitter @TwitterSupport should do the right thing and shut @realDonaldTrump 's account down for endangering the life of another??

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Marika Sboros - Journalist, editor, author.

4 years

Good question: How is it even legal for Harvard scientists to dish up this??

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Marika Sboros - Journalist, editor, author.

4 years

To all those industry-led #paediatricians out there who still say that #sugar is not a drug or addictive ...

@ama_media

AMA Media

4 years

AMA Member Dr James Muecke is the 2020 Australian of the Year! A dedicated Ophthalmologist fighting blindness caused by diabetes. “Sugar is as toxic and addictive as nicotine and should be treated as such..” #AusoftheYear #AustraliaDay

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Marika Sboros - Journalist, editor, author.

5 years

Next time your doctor or dietitian tells you plant-based foods are best for your brain, find another one. US psychiatrist @GeorgiaEdeMD explains why no self-respecting brain should be without DHA - the 'truly miraculous, meaty molecule' ,

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Georgia Ede MD

5 years

Here, close on the heels of my psychoanalysis of arachidonic acid, comes a new post about DHA, a truly miraculous meaty molecule that no self-respecting brain should be without.

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Marika Sboros - Journalist, editor, author.

5 years

In whose interest was this US hospital REALLY operating when they took orthopaedic surgeon @SBakerMD to task for advising diabetic patients on diet to prevent having surgery to cut off their limbs? This tale reminds you of anyone, @FructoseNo ?

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Marika Sboros - Journalist, editor, author.

5 years

Good question for the day - a little modified: how on this earth does anyone take seriously a diet that recommends 4x more sugar than beef!? Thank you, @KetoAurelius

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Marika Sboros - Journalist, editor, author.

4 years

Watch UK MDs attack this cardiologist, one with REAL heart, for saying that giving #NHS staff donuts right now is NOT a treat! They deserve to be given real, nutrient-dense food to protect them from #COVID19 . And processed, junk food companies don't deserve the free publicity!

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Marika Sboros - Journalist, editor, author.

1 year

Oh dear! Someone forgot to tell Dr Malhotra that booking a room in the WC Provincial Parliament building for him to speak to whoever pitches up today is not an invite to 'deliver a lecture in #SouthAfrica 's #Parliament ', as he seems to think. Still, I'm sure he'll earn his keep.

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Marika Sboros - Journalist, editor, author.

7 years

Come one, come ALL! Nov 7, 18.30pm in Cape Town, launch of book I'm privileged to co-author with @ProfTimNoakes ! Please RT!

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Marika Sboros - Journalist, editor, author.

6 years

Wow! @AHPRA does decent thing, apologises to caring MD Dr Gary Fettke @FructoseNo and family for its secretive, unfair processes and putting him through more than 4 years of hell. Spotlight back on #DAA , food industry links, vexatious complainants. #LCHF

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FETTKE FREE AT LAST: AHPRA DROPS ALL CHARGES!

The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) has dropped all charges against Dr Gary Fettke and apologised.

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Marika Sboros - Journalist, editor, author.

6 years

Really! All those amenorrheac Inuit, Maasai, other women not able to ovulate because they aren't eating enough carbs? @AnnChildersMD @GeorgiaEdeMD @KetoCarnivore @MikhailaAleksis @zoeharcombe

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Lara Briden

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Women need carbs to be able to ovulate and makes hormones. #OvulationMatters #WomenAreNotSmallMen

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Marika Sboros - Journalist, editor, author.

5 years

Oh dear, The #vegans won't be happy with this fascinating new research: "Women who eat meat are less prone to disease"....

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Marika Sboros - Journalist, editor, author.

6 years

Really! @HPCSA_ STILL mum on why it missed March 31 deadline for ruling on its appeal against comprehensive not-guilty verdict for @ProfTimNoakes . It has stretched this trial out for more than 4 years now. Common decency requires explanation, apology?

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Marika Sboros - Journalist, editor, author.

4 years

Wow! Local grocer in Canada now sells packs of raw beef fat! Times really are achangin'! Thanks to progressive MDs @drjasonfung @KetoAnaesMD @CliniqueReversa @barbbradshawMD Dr Jay Wortman, many others, and nutrition experts @lchfRD @meganjramos ...

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Marika Sboros - Journalist, editor, author.

6 years

Will all the doctors, dietitians and academics who tried to take @ProfTimNoakes down be held accountable? And will South Africa's top 3 universities finally investigate what their academics got up to? @albericie @FructoseNo

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Noakes free at last, HPCSA licks its legal wounds -

Prof Tim Noakes has won his final battle with the Health Professions Council of South Africa on a charge of professional misconduct for a single tweet.

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