Enjoy Pasta, the “Skinny Pasta” way!
Oh yes we have!! Pasta is a bugbear for so many when adopting a lower carbohydrate eating plan and we consistently have people dropping off the bant wagon because they just can’t give it up! After years of our own personal story with this, we have found a really satisfying and delicious pasta substitute that […]
A Look at The Evidence – LCHF Studies
A look at the evidence behind the Low Carb High Fat Diet: Shai, Iris, Ph.D., 2008, “Weight Loss with a Low-Carbohydrate, Mediterranean, or Low-Fat Diet”, N Engl J Med 2008; 359:229-24. Link to Study: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa0708681 PDF of Infographic: INFOGRAPHIC
Eat Better South Africa: Call For Community Coaches
About Eat Better South Africa: Eat Better South Africa is a community-based non-profit organization working to improve the nutritional education of local community members in South Africa, through advocacy, activism, and the implementation of nutrition education programmes that empowers community members to improve their health by making the best dietary choices available to them. Our […]
Generation Equality: Women’s Empowerment And Nutrition Rights
In honour of the more than 20 000 women who marched to the Union Buildings on August 9, 1956, in opposition to the extension of the Pass Laws to women, South Africa observes Women’s Month in August. “Generation Equality: Realising Women’s Rights for an Equal Future” is the topic of this year’s Women Month. Generation […]
Ancel Keys Cholesterol Con. Part 14. 1994-2017
1994. The findings of the Multinational Monitoring of Trends and Determinants in Cardiovascular Disease (MONICA) study are reported. The MONICA study was initiated in 1974 with the goal of measuring trends in cardiovascular mortality and coronary heart disease and stroke morbidity in 21 countries and to assess the extent to which these trends could be […]
What You Achieve With Healthy Living
One of the challenges we regularly face is what to eat on a daily basis. A visit to the grocery store is no longer a simple task as we’re presented with thousands of food products, all aimed at getting us, the consumers, to carry them home to our kitchens. This makes choosing healthy foods quite […]
Ancel Keys Cholesterol Con. Part 13. 1993-2005
1993. Harvard University’s Professor Walter Willett MD invents the Mediterranean Diet. When Ancel Keys began to promote his low fat diet to prevent CHD, he advocated replacing saturated fat with industrially-produced “vegetable” oils “rich in polyunsaturated fats”. Although he was aware that polyunsaturated fats had certain limitations – limitations fully exposed in the Joint Statement […]
World Health Day: We Need Healthier People To Live On A Healthier Planet
Celebrated on April 7th each year, World Health Day is an initiative by the World Health Organization (WHO) and other organizations to raise awareness of people’s overall health and well-being around the world. This year’s theme is “Our Planet, Our Health” therefore, to be able to inhabit a healthy planet, healthier people are needed and […]
The Ancel Keys Cholesterol Con. Part 12. 1984-1993
1984 NIH Consensus Development Conference Any reasonable intellect would have to conclude that the LRC CPPT findings released in 1984, did not support Keys’ Lipid Hypothesis. They could only ever be interpreted as evidence that even if the Lipid Hypothesis was partially true, the contribution of a raised blood cholesterol concentration to CHD was miniscule. […]
International Women’s Day 2022 #IWD2022 #BreakTheBias
The 8th of March is International Women’s Day (IWD), a day that recognizes and upholds the achievements of women around the world, as well as promotes gender equality. This IWD 2022’s theme is #BreakTheBias, and it has the aim to celebrate women’s achievement, raise awareness against bias and act for equality. Whether deliberate or unconscious, […]