Ancel Keys’ Cholesterol Con. Part 9 – 1976-1977
1976-1977. The McGovern US Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs releases its Dietary Goals for the United States. A key event that drove the global adoption of the Diet-Heart hypothesis was the 1972 US Presidential election in which the incumbent Richard Nixon was confronted by a losing war in Vietnam, rising food prices, […]
Ancel Keys’ Cholesterol Con. Part 8: 1970-1974
1970. Report of the Inter-Society Commission for Heart Disease Resources relating to the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease and the Primary Prevention of the atherosclerotic process. At the same time that the NHLBI Task Force on Atherosclerosis was meeting under the chairmanship of Fredrickson, Keys’ principal acolyte Jeremiah Stamler was convening another Commission to address the […]
World Alzheimer’s Day 2021
Source of infographic information: https://www.brightfocus.org/alzheimers/article/alzheimers-disease-facts-figures Alzheimer’s is a severe neurological disease that can cause impairment of normal daily functions. The disease has been showcased in numerous films over the years, think of The Notebook, Aurora Borealis or the newly released The Father with Anthony Hopkins. Hollywood movies tend to dramatise situations and evoke emotion […]
Younglings launches the Social Media and Internet Lab for Research
Younglings recently launched the ‘Social Media and Internet Lab for Research’ (SMILR) with support from The Noakes Foundation (TNF). We were grateful to have received funding that allowed us to support the infrastructural launch. This new lab gives Younglings software developer trainees a rare opportunity to learn how to extract data from social media platforms […]
Noakes, Vanguards, Vaccines and Twitter: The Noakes Foundation Weighs in
Introduction and context The Noakes Foundation and Prof. Noakes’ vision has been rooted in the promotion of pioneering academic freedom and discussion to support change and critical thinking. We believe that academic scholars should be able to voice differing opinions, challenge convention and be encouraged to push the limits of known science without the […]
Ancel Keys’ Cholesterol Con. Part 7. 1968-1970
1968. The initial results from the Oslo Secondary Prevention (Diet-Heart) Trial are reported. The first results of this study initiated at five medical departments in Oslo, Norway between 1956-1958 were published in 1968 (1). The goal of the study was to determine if a diet “rich” in polyunsaturated fats from soybean oil would reduce blood […]
Women’s Day: Reflections from Dr Hassina Kajee
Women have come a really long way in history! We can now do absolutely anything we want to do (within biological limits). From not being allowed to vote, we can now rule a country, go to Space, win a Nobel Peace prize and Influence the direction of the world in ways that were previously impossible to achieve. From […]
We’re hiring: Eat Better SA Community Coach
About the Eat Better SA: Eat Better South Africa (EBSA) is the community outreach branch of The Noakes Foundation and is an intervention programme aimed at educating people from lower-income areas, teaching them to get better by eating better. EBSA’s mission is to educate under-resourced community members about the dangers of excessive sugar and refined […]
Ancel Keys’ Cholesterol Con. Part 6. 1960-1967
1960. The NIH establishes an Executive Committee on Diet and Heart Disease. The Committee proposes a National Diet-Heart Study under the chairmanship of Dr Irvine Page, MD. Even as the AHA was describing Keys’ hypotheses as speculative and unproven, in 1960 the National Heart Institute (NHI) formed an Executive Committee on Diet and Heart Disease […]
We’re hiring: Eat Better SA Programme Manager
Programme Manager Eat Better South Africa (EBSA), is recruiting a Programme Manager to lead its program for the coming year. About the organisation: EBSA is the community outreach branch of The Noakes Foundation and is a movement aimed at educating South Africans to eat better. EBSA’s mission is to educate under-resourced community members about the […]