Unrepentant Noakes launches Original Eating website HE HAS faced a barrage of criticism from his peers following his U-turn from the carbo-loading for athletes theory to a high fat, low-carbohydrate diet, but Professor Tim Noakes is unrepentant. A few months after he launched his cookbook, The Real Meal Revolution, the sports scientist from UCT this week launched a website that provides not only tailor-made diets, but also offers free dietary and medical advice for those affected by metabolic syndrome. Noakes said the website, originaleating.org, would benefit those with insulin resistance, otherwise known as carbohydrate intolerance, and other lifestyle conditions, including diabetes and obesity. The site has details of Noakess Original Eating movement that promotes Banting - a low-carb, high-fat diet. It also features his lectures in which he talks about his own experiences that led him to the new diet. People can try out the Original Eating free personal diet app, which is automatically generated. The user fills out details about their health, including weight, BMI, blood pressure and blood sugar levels, and gets a diet to follow. Noakes said it provided details and information that was not available in the book. The sports scientist, who started talking publicly about his new eating plan about three years ago, has been criticised by dietitians, heart specialists and fellow sports scientists, who say his high-fat diet could result in heart problems and high cholesterol later in life. They argue that while users of the diet had short-term outcomes such as getting slimmer, there was no verified data to support its long-term use. Dr Vash Mungal-Singh, chief executive of the Heart and Stroke Foundation SA, said anyone considering Noakess diet should have a full cholesterol test done before they started. He cautioned against eating all that saturated fat if a person had raised cholesterol levels. He said the foundation supports a balanced diet that avoids refined carbohydrates and places emphasis on healthful fats and oil, and whole plant foods, including lean meats, fish, poultry and seafood. But Noakes argued that his detractors needed to look around and explain how the low-fat healthy diet that was currently promoted was healthy and was not causing the epidemic of ill-health that began in 1980 - three years after this healthy diet was first promoted globally. He said the healthy diet was the cause of the obesity and diabetes epidemic currently engulfing first the West and now increasingly the East. Sipokazi Fokazi: Cape Argus
Posted on: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 08:25:00 +0000
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