Lore of Nutrition: Challenging Conventional Dietary Beliefs by Tim Noakes & Marika Sboros

Author:Tim Noakes & Marika Sboros
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: ketogenic diet
ISBN: 9781776092611
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Published: 2018-06-18T22:00:00+00:00

Wisely, Ellmer chose not to put herself and her reputation through the mental anguish of going up against Van der Nest and Ramdass. They would have made short work of her ‘expert’ evidence.

It is significant that Ellmer referred to ketogenic diets in her summary. Ketosis and ketogenic diets would keep turning up like bad scientific pennies during the hearing. All of the HPCSA’s witnesses referred to ketogenic diets as if they were synonymous with danger and premature death. They all displayed surprising ignorance on the topic, conflating ketosis with ketoacidosis. The former is a natural, benign bodily state. The latter is potentially fatal, fortunately rare, and seen mostly in patients with uncontrolled type-1 diabetes.

To top it all, the HPCSA had not even charged Noakes with advising a ketogenic diet, dangerous or otherwise. His tweet said nothing at all about ketosis. Why the witnesses kept bringing up the subject would only be revealed towards the end of the hearing, when a series of emails came to light and was placed on record in February 2016.

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