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Award-winning British journalist, Jerome Burne, believes the UK's 'Fat Wars' herald a much-needed ‘Martin Luther moment’ for medicine. He explains why in a shortened version of his blog on the topic (click here for a full version). It’s a riveting read.
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It’s official and from Britain’s highest medical and dietetic levels: government-sanctioned dietary guidelines really are making you fat and sick.
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Many people are learning about the benefits of a low carbohydrate lifestyle from books, articles published in medical journals, the Internet, word-of-mouth and personal experience. With so much positive evidence mounting, why are doctors either not supportive or even caution against it? The...
The fear of fat is a thing of the past. In the coming years demand for fat will soar worldwide, and that for carbohydrates will fall. The entire world will start eating higher fat, lower carb diets (on average). These are the predictions of a ...
In the mid-1990s, when the low-fat diet was king, a young American obesity researcher began to have his doubts. He's now authored a best-selling diet book promoting LCHF eating, and it's a story that's generating plenty of global headlines.
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So despite the best efforts of the Association of Dietitians of South Africa, the Health Professions Council of SA (HPCSA) and various eminent medical academics, the Banting Revolution continues to gain traction across the length and breadth of South Africa.
This article by Emeritus Professor...
Anyone would agree that the All Blacks’ performance in the Rugby World Cup was amazing – they worked together like a well-oiled machine. And now it has come to light, under the influence of strength and conditioning coach, Dr Nicholas Gill,...
Is Low Carb/High Fat diet and nutritional ketosis a new treatment for HIV AIDS? This is a question posed after new research has found that HIV/AIDS infection is significantly dependent on glucose, not dissimilar to cancer.
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The 'Tim Noakes trial' may have been postponed until November, but the story continues. His accuser, the Association of Dietetics in SA (ADSA) has issued a statement strongly denying accusations that it's acting as a proxy for Big Food by reporting Noakes to the HPCSA for unprofessional...
Prof Tim Noakes must wait until November to defend his case on a unprofessional conduct charge, after advising a mother via Twitter to wean her child on low-carbohydrate, high-fat foods.
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Digging deeper into this saga, as Marika Sboras, well-known health journalist on BizNews.com, has done, it seems certain that someone is going to come out of it with a bloody nose. Those someones are likely to be important food players and the dietary establishment. Reading...
The Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) has confirmed that Prof Tim Noakes, uber advocate of low carb-high fat eating, will be facing a two-day hearing relating to "unprofessional conduct".
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The first Low Carb High Fat LCHF summit at Cape Town's CTICC has come and gone. It drew 16 high-profile low carb experts, scientists, doctors, and researchers from around the world who share the belief that it is time to share...
A new review argues, again, that there was no evidence to support the low-fat message that has been the mantra for good health since the 1970s.
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Cape Town's, Prof Tim Noakes, is in fighting mood. He's daring critics who have called him and his low-carb, high-fat (LCHF) diet dangerous to debate the science with him in public. Noakes was hoping that debate would take place with him and 15 of the...
"The theory that blood cholesterol and a high fat diet are the causes of heart disease will be one of the greatest errors in the history of medicine." With a statement like this it's no wonder that Prof Tim Noakes has been heavily criticised for...
Cape Town sports scientist Prof Tim Noakes is in great shape. At 65, after four years on his low-carb, high-fat (LCHF) diet, his energy levels are stratospheric, and his running has improved spectacularly. Here Noakes clarifies fundamentals of his diet.
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As we all know in South Africa, Prof Tim Noakes has been, and still is, demonised for changing his mind a few years ago on the role of carbohydrates in the diet in favour of a low-carb, high-fat (LCHF, also known as Banting) diet for people who are...
Few things are currently being debated as much as "carbs vs fat". This article analyzes and synopsizes the data from 23 peer-reviewed, published studies comparing low-carb and low-fat diets. What comes out best?
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Ardent evangelist of the low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet, Prof Tim Noakes, wants Cape Town to be the cradle of the "meal revolution" which he hopes to spread across the world.
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