Tim Noakes ‘trial’: did HPCSA set him up in a cat ‘n mouse game?
You couldn’t make this up unless you were smoking something: after revelations of ‘trial by ambush’ and secret reports comes the news that professors of bioethics, surgery and psychiatry exercising a...
View ArticleNoakes, low-carb, high-fat on trial: will the evidence ruin a good story?
The Health Professions Council of SA (HPCSA) hearing against University of Cape Town emeritus professor Tim Noakes is running in Cape Town from February 8 to 17. Noakes is charged with unprofessional...
View ArticleTim Noakes on evolution and real food that builds bigger brains
It has been business as usual for the Health Professions Council of SA (HPCSA) when it resumed its hearing against UCT emeritus professor Tim Noakes on behalf of the Association for Dietetics in SA...
View ArticleTim Noakes: ‘Why I won’t practise medicine of failure’
University of Cape Town deputy vice chancellor and law professor Danie Visser calls emeritus professor Tim Noakes a “force in the world”. The Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) is more...
View ArticleTim Noakes: ‘power of the anointed’ is over, ‘wisdom of the crowd’ rules
It has been called the ‘Banting for Babies Trial’ and ‘Nutrition Trial of the Century’. The Health Professions Council of SA (HPCSA) hearing against UCT emeritus professor Tim Noakes is becoming the...
View ArticleTim Noakes: caught in a turf war over an inconvenient truth?
The Health Professions Council of SA hearing that resumes in October against Prof Tim Noakes for his ‘unconventional’ views on butter, eggs, bacon and broccoli, was once again filled with twists,...
View ArticleTim Noakes: seeing into the future of food as medicine
In part one of a two-part review of the February hearing of the Health Professions Council of SA against world-renowned scientist and University of Cape Town emeritus professor Tim Noakes, I looked at...
View ArticlePaleo diet: not dangerous and doesn’t make you fat
By Marika Sboros The basics for a Paleo meal The Paleo diet, a popular form of low-carb, high-fat (LCHF) lifestyle in the US, made international headlines recently after Australian researchers of a...
View ArticleBuffett v Noakes – one of them missing the dietary point. But which one?
Ever since he gave me a tour around the Sports Science Institute a couple decades back, I’ve been a Tim Noakes fan. Esteem which rose after reading his autobiography, Challenging Beliefs, where Noakes...
View ArticleTim Noakes trial: Publicity seeker or Banting diet guru? Experts weigh in
South African academic Tim Noakes has enjoyed record book sales for his advice on the #Banting diet in the Real Meal Revolution – and with good reason. Many who have followed his eating suggestions...
View Article