PR: Fat Future A Noakes Foundation Fundraiser at Table Bay
5 October 2015 Fat Future: A Noakes Foundation Banquet Fundraiser for Lavender Hill Community Programme Hosted by The Noakes Foundation, Fat Future: A Banquet Fundraiser takes place on Tuesday 27 October at the Table Bay Hotel in Cape Town. This special evening will be the last public talk of the year offered by Prof Noakes. Joined […]
Prof’s Words: Unpublished Foreword for Kath Megaw’s Book
Written by Professor Tim Noakes MBChB, MD, DSc, PhD (hc), FACSM, (hon) FFSEM (UK), (hon) FFSEM (Ire) Emeritus Professor University of Cape Town Author of Lore of Running, Challenging Beliefs, Waterlogged, Real Meal Revolution and Raising Superheroes (Prof Noakes wrote this foreword for this book but the publisher made the decision not to use or […]
Gratitudes: Ocean View Pioneers our Educational Programme
Saturday marked the end of a pilot study in Ocean View. Forty amazing women celebrated their achievements having Banted for five weeks in Soetwater Resort near Ocean View. The Noakes Foundation would like to extend a HUGE thank the following passionate individuals and sponsors for their support, contribution and involvement. This pilot project relied on volunteers […]
My Medical Epiphany
As I gulp my twice daily dose of metformin and obsessively monitor my blood glucose concentration, sometimes continuously 24 hours a day, I often wonder why did this happen. Why did I develop type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM)? Where did I, or perhaps my education, or even my educators go wrong? Or was it all […]
Jonno’s Words: Why I flipping love The Noakes Foundation
I was born in Cape Town in 1984, the same year Prof published The Lore of Running. The son of a passionate GP and a nurse, I spent my younger years at the dinner table listening to how my parents spent their working hours helping people improve their health and in some cases, saving their […]
What Caused the Obesity Epidemic
In February this year Cape Town was fortunate to host the Old Mutual Health Summit in the Cape Town Convention Centre. Organized by Karen Thomson it was a monumental success, perhaps one of the best such conferences on the low carbohydrate diet ever staged. Each moment of the Summit, addressed by 12 acknowledged world-leaders in […]
The “Banting for Babies” Hearing
Many in South Africa with an interest in their personal nutrition probably know that I have been called before a hearing of the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) to face the charge that I acted unprofessionally because I gave “unconventional advice” on social media (Twitter). Originally it was argued that the “advice” I […]
Our Educational Nutrition Program Needs Your Support
Honoring our commitment to correct the dietary errors of the past fifty years and to determine the optimal diet for individuals in our diverse South African landscape, The Noakes Foundation is about to kick-start an exciting community educational program involving working with women’s diets in impoverished communities around Cape Town. This is a pilot community […]
My Path to Banting
At 21 I was told by my gynae I had PCOS and that I was ‘probably insulin resistant’. I had no idea what that meant and in those days few people really did – I was lucky to have had such a progressive person advising me I guess! I immediately went onto a Low GI […]
Why The Noakes Foundation?
Simple. In the first place to honour my parents. In 1946, Reginald and Wendy Noakes emigrated from the UK with my recently born sister, Amanda (Mandy), shortly after the end of the Second World War, to start a new life in Harare, Zimbabwe. My father’s business acumen allowed us to move to Cape Town in […]