Whole Body Health: A Balanced Approach to Wellbeing
When we think about health, it’s common to get caught up in the physical aspects – fitness, weight, and the like. But health encompasses so much more than that. Whole body health recognizes that our physical, mental, emotional, and social well-being are all deeply interconnected. Therefore, to thrive, we need to nurture each of these […]
A Journey Back to Health: My Story with EBSA and the LCHF Lifestyle
If you had told me years ago that changing the way I eat would transform my life, I probably wouldn’t have believed you. At the time, I was trapped in a cycle of chronic illness, pain, and frustration, with no real solutions in sight. But today, I can say with absolute certainty that one decision—to […]
The Reality of Childhood Obesity and Malnutrition: A Call to Action During School Health Week
As we recognize School Health Week, it’s important to reflect on the stark realities facing children globally—and especially here in South Africa—regarding their health and nutrition. Two major issues stand out: childhood obesity and malnutrition. While these problems may seem like opposite ends of a spectrum, they share a root cause—poor diet quality. This week […]
Rethinking Alzheimer’s: Are We Asking the Right Questions?
For decades, Alzheimer’s disease has been perceived as a natural consequence of aging or linked predominantly to genetic predisposition. We’ve accepted that age, family history, and lifestyle factors like poor sleep, lack of exercise, or even high cholesterol play their roles. But are we looking deeply enough into the real causes? Could there be a […]
Empowering Health in Dunoon: A Year of Impact and Future Growth
At The Noakes Foundation (TNF), we are committed to advancing scientific research and community health programs that challenge conventional dietary guidelines, especially in communities most vulnerable to non-communicable diseases like Type 2 Diabetes (T2D), obesity, and cardiovascular diseases. Over the past year, our collaboration with Eat Better South Africa (EBSA) and the Dunoon Community Health […]
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 […]
Alison and David’s Weight Loss Journey
I am Alison and my partner is David. The pandemic arrives!! David is working in a security environment for a University and I am working in a Corporate establishment in HR working from home as everybody else in the world – feeling scared. As the virus became more dangerous and lockdown started to arrive – […]
Testimonial: How the LCHF lifestyle has helped me lose weight and gain my health back
As a teenager, I was thin and fit. I cycled 20-30km a day, walked anywhere from 2- 10 km daily, gym 3-4 per week, and took part in school hockey. My diet wasn’t necessarily banting healthy but was based on whole foods and lean meats. This all changed when I started university. I was not […]
Ancel Keys’ Cholesterol Con. Part 11. 1979-1984
1979. The first results of the Helsinki Policemen Study are published. The goal of this novel study which began in 1971, was to determine whether or not insulin resistance can be used to predict those who will develop CHD in the future. Recall that up until 1965 there was real interest in the role of […]
Ancel Keys’ Cholesterol Con. Part 10 – 1978-1979
1978. The identification of dietary trans fats as uniquely damaging to human health. When in 1 Proctor and Gamble employed the German chemist E.C.Kayser to produce the hydrogenated “vegetable” oil from cotton seeds, a product that would become known as Crisco (1), they had no legal requirement to prove that their novel industrially-produced food product […]