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People who avoid carbohydrates and eat more fat, even saturated fat, lose more body fat and have fewer cardiovascular risks than people who follow the low-fat diet that health authorities have favoured for decades, a major new study shows.
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The science linking saturated fats to heart disease and other health issues has never been sound. Nina Teicholz looks at how governments started advising incorrectly on diets. Here's an extract from the new book, The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat, and Cheese Belong in...
There's no keeping him out of the headlines! Prof Tim Noakes makes a large front-page splash in today's Cape Times with this report, advising in a talk he gave yesterday that instead of carbohydrates such as pap and bread, children should be fed animal organs,...
Low carbohydrate diets, as advocated by Prof Tim Noakes of UCT's Sports Science Institute, result in no more weight loss than "recommended balanced diets", a Stellenbosch University study, just released, has found. Noakes has dismissed the findings.
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Four decades of medical wisdom that cutting down on saturated fats reduces our risk of heart disease may be wrong, a top UK cardiologist has said. ...
Rigorously controlled studies may soon give us a definitive answer about what causes obesity — excessive calories or the wrong carbohydrates. This intriguing article in Scientific American is by well-known scince writer, Gary Taubes, author of Good Calories, Bad Calories (2007), and Why We...
SA's leading sports scientist, Prof Tim Noakes, goes too far in suggesting that a switch to a high-fat, high-protein diet is advisable for everyone, say six top doctors and academics.
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A new study published in the Journal of American Medical Association challenges the notion that “a calorie is a calorie” and has found that people following a Mediterranean-style diet may have the best chance of keeping weight off — and doing it...
Low-carb eating regimens are a topic du jour around the world. Massive Health, a 'new age' health organisation that is behind the popular free IPhone app, The Eatery ("Stop counting calories, start eating better"), has created this useful infographic explaining the science...
The average Briton is three stone or 19kg heavier today than in the 60s. And not because they're eating more or exercising less – they just unwittingly became sugar addicts, argues this lengthy article in The Guardian. It is written...
Low-carbohydrate, high-protein diets - like the Atkins diet - have been popular among dieters for years. For just as long, experts have worried that such diets might be harmful to the kidneys. A study appearing in the Clinical Journal of...
We're all familiar now with the idea of "good fats" and "bad fats", with fish oils in the role of "good" and saturated animal fats the "bad”. The progress of nutrition science is now taking this idea a step further. It's not...
Tim Noakes has moved from advocating carbo-loading to suggesting that carbohydrates are an addiction posing severe health risks. But while his revised recommendations are couched in the language of science, does the science support them? [Excellent opinion piece from the Daily Maverick]....
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World-renowned sports scientist, Tim Noakes, has caused something of a stir in health circles by refuting his own nutritional advice, widely espoused as athletics gospel. In an about-turn, Noakes is blaming food containing carbohydrates for the rise in obesity, diabetes and heart disease.
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The tide is turning on the reputation of fat as we begin to understand more about how our bodies actually use and need dietary fat, and realise that low-fat diets may have been working against us, according to Fats and Oils: Culinary Trend Mapping Report...