Better Health Workshop
HPCSA v Prof. Tim Noakes in Context - Challenging Beliefs
 Celeste Naudé |
 Tim Noakes |
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Celeste Naudé |
Tim Noakes |
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In evidence (From Video 21) Prof. Noakes said; "This is a unique event in medical history. It's much easier to shoot the messenger than to re-examine the ideas on which one's whole career is based. ... My profession has tried to shoot me. This court will determine if they are successful.
I told people on Twitter to wean children onto a LCHF diet. I was talking to people who know what LCHF means, there was no misunderstanding. I did not use the term ketogenic diet, at all, and I was not referring to a therapeutic Ketogenic diet.
The public deserves to know the truth. South Africa deserves to know a truth that we've denied for 50 years. We don't need to be dominated by other interests (By commercial and sponsorship arrangements, by the opinion of researchers at Harvard University, or by the Dietary Guidelines of the USA.)
When the current charges were first proposed, I didn't take it seriously. (From Video 34) I knew that I had not given medical advice to any individual, there was no consultation. And I knew that the opinion that I offered was strongly supported by current nutritional science. Since only the science was in question. I wrote to the HPCSA a three page letter outlining the science. They had the evidence from the beginning. I thought that would be the end of it.
Prof. Tim Noakes, was a celebrated academic, Emeritus Professor in the Division of Exercise Science and Sports Medicine at University of Cape Town, and Co-Founder and Executive Co-Director, Sports Science Institute of South Africa. Among his awards in 2013 - nominated as one of 100 World Class South Africans.
As he retired in 2012, he published a book "
Challenging Beliefs: Memoirs of a Career." From the publicity for the book, "Tim Noakes is the world's leading authority on the science behind sport. Through a lifetime of research, he has developed key scientific concepts in sport that have not only redefined the way elite athletes and teams approach their professions, but challenged conventional global thinking in these areas."
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