121: Low-carb, high-fat (LCHF) diet on trial
Wise Traditions
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🗓️ 5 March 2018
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Low-carb, high-fat (LCHF) diets are trending, but how healthy are they really? Are they for everyone? What does the science say? Professor Tim Noakes, co-author of "The Real Meal Revolution," is a renowned scientist and researcher from South Africa who is convinced that most people can improve their health by restricting their carbohydrate intake and upping their fats.
He had to defend this dietary position in recent years before the Health Professions Council of South Africa. He came before the council as a result of a tweet where he replied to a breastfeeding mother, suggesting that she wean her baby to a LCHF diet. The trial was focused, in part, on whether he was offering "unconventional and unscientific" advice to the mother.
In today's episode, you'll learn about the outcome of the trial, why the LCHF (a/k/a Banting) diet is scorned by some, what health benefits can result from adopting it, what it looks like to eat this way in the day-to-day, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | The profession still won't embrace it and certainly not the dietetics profession because they've built everything on the low fat diets and the whole story about high fat diets causing everything, heart disease and everything else. |
| 0:13.0 | And they're completely wrong. |
| 0:14.3 | There is no evidence for that, but they can't admit that |
| 0:16.6 | because that's what they taught and that's all they understand. |
| 0:19.8 | The public is slowly changing the doctors because the public is going to the doctors and saying, |
| 0:24.6 | listen, I went on Dr Nox's diet, I lost 20 kilograms or 40 pounds, |
| 0:29.6 | blood pressure controlled diabetes in remission |
| 0:32.0 | and what you were doing for me doesn't work. Welcome to the Wise Traditions Podcast sponsored by the Westin A Price Foundation for |
| 0:48.6 | Wise Traditions and Food Farming and the Healing Arts. We are your source for scientific knowledge |
| 0:54.4 | and traditional wisdom to help you achieve optimal health. |
| 0:58.0 | I'm your host, Hilda Labrada Gore. This is episode 121 and my guest is Professor Tim Nokes. |
| 1:08.0 | He is a brilliant scientist and a defender of real food. He is the co-author of Real Meal Revolution, changing the world one meal at a time. |
| 1:17.0 | And he is rated as an A1 scientist by the National Research Foundation of South Africa. |
| 1:22.0 | Professor Nokes started researching the effects of National Research Foundation of South Africa. |
| 1:22.6 | Professor Noakes started researching the effects of carbohydrates, proteins, and fats on the human race, |
| 1:28.1 | and he became convinced that a high-fat low-carb diet is the healthiest option for many. A few years ago he was |
| 1:35.3 | embroiled in a controversy when he replied to a young mother on Twitter about |
| 1:39.6 | weaning her baby to a high- fat low-carb diet. |
| 1:42.8 | Today we'll discuss the hearing that ensued, |
| 1:44.8 | the verdict, and its consequences. |
| 1:47.0 | You'll also hear eye-opening information |
| 1:49.2 | related to the Banting diet, Tim's perspective |
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