The largest and most expensive dietary study ever done, produced an unexpected result. The "healthy diet" they were testing, was shown to have "no health benefits" for older women.
The following is my commentary, a reconstruction, written from my own notes, and may not be entirely as accurate as I (or Dr Noakes) would like.
Why have my own university and my own profession taken sides against me? There are two charges here; that I gave professional advice on social media; and that the advice I gave was unconventional.
I choose to defend myself because I know that on both counts what I did was absolutely professional and ethical.
Advocates, reporters and people in the public gallery of the court.I was asked a "we question" on Twitter, about how babies should be weaned. This was not a consultation of any kind. I replied in seven words, recommending weaning onto a low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet.
As I believe I've already shown you, in the 1990's we thought that high carbohydrates diets were safe. But today we know that not necessarily the case. I will show you soon that Dr H. Vorster, of Stellenbosch University, agrees with me about weaning children onto nutriment dense foods, and that the advice I gave is utterly conventional.
This trial has been helpful. We've now sold over 250,000 Real Meal Revolution books, but we are only reaching the upper-class section of the population. Out task here today, is to educate university staff, doctors and future medical students. The evidence I offer will give medical students ways to challenge their professors when they continue of proclaim outdated advice.
I wonder about the Medical Faculty at the University of Cape Town. What are they trying to protect. Why are they so reluctant to change?
With regards to obesity, type 2 diabetes, and metabolic syndrome, the medical professions are practicing the medicine of failure. We do know how to resolve these problems, but the solution is not medical. There are many things people can do for themselves. You start be getting your diet right. We should stop wasting money on blood pressure medication and statins. We should stop relying on medication for type 2 diabetes, and we should aim at insulin use minimization for type one diabetics. We need to spend more money on quality food.
If you cannot control your weight, you are probably insulin resistant. If you have metabolic syndrome or type 2 diabetes then the Banting Diet will significantly improve your health.
From Video Fifteen
In all professions, pride in what you are doing and commitment to a set of well founded principle and beliefs is important. But in science that ground shifts. For instance the Women's Health Initiative, proved that at least for older women, the low-fat high carbohydrate diet, doesn't improve health. They spent $700 million of the Women's Health Initiative, and it failed to produce the result everyone expected.
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