Health

Weight Loss and Lattes Don’t go Together It seems that everyone I meet for coffee these days is ordering low-fat lattes.

Sometimes, these same people are horrified when the waiter asks if they want toast. ‘No toast please, I’m Banting!’ the portly gent I met with a few days ago, indignantly informed our waiter. He would have been horrified to find out that his latte was about to add as much to his

Can you guess when it’s peak season for the weight loss industry?

I’ll give you a clue, it’s always the same time of year worldwide.

It’s just before summer, when the winter layers come off!

Winter’s Traditions

Traditionally, winter is the time to pile on the layers, neatly covering any accumulat

I didn’t eat pizza for years.

'Who needs it anyway,' I would say. In those days, I would avoid Italian restaurants, not wanting to be tempted by steaming plates of pasta or the smell of the pizza oven. Fresh fruit was also off the menu. I missed the crunch of a green apple, the taste of fresh mango and had to make do with berries and yoghurt. And don’t get me started on hot bread and

How do you feel about eating some cancer causing herbicide for breakfast?

Recent tests have detected high levels of this toxic herbicide, called glyphosate in some popular breakfast foods. Glyphosate, listed as a probable cancer-causing agent by the World Health Organization, is the most popular herbicide in use today. Commercially sold as Roundup, it is made by Monsanto and is usually

People have been eating eggs for the longest time. Eggshell fragments are often found in the coprolites (fossilized poo) of ancient humans. While in the past, humans ate a variety of eggs, today we eat mostly chicken eggs.

Bad Rap

Egg yolks are full of cholesterol which is still public enemy No 1 in some medical circles. The egg aversion has led to the egg-white

Are you among the estimated one in seven people on earth that is short of this vitamin?

A figure some specialists believe is too optimistic and could be closer to 50% of the world’s population. Are you leaving yourself open to a range of medical problems because you have low levels of this cheap and easily available substance? Are you lacking in a vitamin which in the US and Canada a