Calling All Athletes: We Want to Know What You Really Think About Pork!
Are you an athlete with strong opinions on everything, from your training schedule to your protein-packed plate? Do you have a love-it-or-its-complicated relationship with pork? Whether you’re an endurance enthusiast, smashing marathon records, or a strength-and-power beast who can deadlift a car (well, almost), we want to hear from you! We’re gathering a team of […]
Empowering Women’s Health: A Study on Nutrition and Thyroid Function
While it might be small, the thyroid is anything but insignificant. The thyroid gland produces hormones that regulate the body’s metabolic rate, growth, and development, playing a central role in the control of the heart, muscle, digestive function, brain development, and bone maintenance. Thyroid disorders fall into two main categories: overactive, and underactive. An overactive […]
“The Fat Ginger Nerd” a Weight Loss Story by Brendan Reid
I have heard it said that the definition of an adult is someone who has stopped growing up and started growing out. This describes the typical process by which many of us tend to gain weight: gradually, over a period of years following a childhood of relatively normal size. Hence, the term “middle-age spread”. This […]
Breaking out of holiday mode
Holidays are wonderful. They are a great time to recharge, to spend some time deepening your relationships with your loved ones. It’s a lovely time to step back from routine and become more comfortable with a change in pace. Holidays can also be challenging: sometimes it can be difficult to drop the pace and […]
IT’S THE INSULIN RESISTANCE, STUPID: PART 7 By Prof. Timothy Noakes
This article was first published on the CrossFit website. In the previous column, I explained how Ancel Keys, once a cholesterol denialist, suddenly shifted his position on dietary factors related to heart disease and came to use weak epidemiological evidence to advance the diet-heart and lipid hypotheses. I also described how Keys became the leading researcher on […]
IT’S THE INSULIN RESISTANCE, STUPID: PART 6 By Prof. Timothy Noakes
This article was first published on the CrossFit website. As I detailed in the previous column (2), the textbook on heart disease by the world’s premier cardiologist, Dr. Paul Dudley White (3), shows that by 1946, neither he nor anyone else had yet come up with a theory about how and which dietary factors might influence the development of […]
IT’S THE INSULIN RESISTANCE, STUPID: PART 5 By Prof. Timothy Noakes
This article was first published on the CrossFit website. PRESIDENT EISENHOWER PRESCRIBED EXPERIMENTAL, UNTESTED LOW-FAT, LOW-CHOLESTEROL DIET It is Friday, Sept. 23, 1955. The 64-year-old 34th President of the United States Dwight D. Eisenhower is on a “work and play” vacation in Denver, Colorado (1-4). As required for work, he travels to the Lowry Air Force Base […]
Is Alzheimer’s Type 3 Diabetes?
A few months back when Livewell Villages – a specialized residential center in Alzheimer’s and dementia care – invited us to talk at their annual conference on the currently topical question of whether or not Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is Type 3 Diabetes (T3DM), I struggled to get any of the doctors in our network to […]
Celebrating Youth Day – The Importance of Proper Nutrition in Children
Nutrition and The Youth by Georgina Pujol-Busquets Guillén What’s the Youth’s Day? Youth Day in South Africa commemorates the Soweto Uprising in the country, a series of protests led by black school children that began on the morning of 16 June 1976. Students from numerous Sowetan schools began to protest in the streets in […]
Salt – How much is too much?
On this edition of The Ask Prof Noakes Podcast we have a great question in from someone who wants to know, without putting yourself at further lethal risk, how much salt can we, or should we, be eating? Brad Brown chats to Prof Noakes about the amount of salt consumption in our daily lives. If you […]