LCHF Not Just For The Elite
Eat Better South Africa! proves that LCHF is not just for the elite. The hearing between Prof Noakes and the Health Professions Council of South Africa resumed this week in Cape Town. The HPCSA tried and failed to stop Noakes calling two of his three expert witnesses, and have now turned their focus to the accessibility […]
Eat Better SA: One Year Reunion with Ocean View Ladies
The ladies from Eat Better South Africa’s ground zero project in Ocean View, Cape Town, got together this month to mark the one-year anniversary since embarking on the program and adopting the LCHF lifestyle. The Noakes Foundation team along with the ladies from the Ocean View community gathered at Monkey Valley resort in Noordhoek […]
The Noakes Foundation presenting at Low Carb USA Conference
Jayne Bullen, manager of The Noakes Foundation, will be speaking with the Foundation’s doctor, Dr. Salih Solomon, at the Low Carb USA conference at the end of July. Low Carb USA is bringing together 25 of the world’s top medical and scientific minds on how nutrition can treat and prevent serious disease at the largest-ever […]
EAT BETTER ATLANTIS: ANOTHER COMMUNITY SUCCESS
NEWS RELEASE May 2016 Lifestyle & Food EAT BETTER SOUTH AFRICA CELEBRATES ANOTHER SUCCESS WITH THEIR COMMUNITY HEALTH INTERVENTION PROGRAMME Last week saw the closing ceremony of Eat Better South Africa’s! sixth successful community intervention programme held in Atlantis. The intervention came about through the suggestion of Rita Fernandes Venter, owner of the hugely popular […]
COMMUNITY BANTING INITIATIVE REACHES TO BUSINESSES
NEWS RELEASE February 2016 Lifestyle & Food THE NOAKES FOUNDATION COMMUNITY BANTING INITIATIVE REACHES TO BUSINESSES Eat Better South Africa!, a programme created by The Noakes Foundation that is taking Banting to low-income areas, is now extending to corporate initiatives. This will ensure the LCHF lifestyle reaches more South Africans and in so […]
Are you our next Community Change Agent?
Be a health revolution Eat Better Ambassador! Ten amazing South Africans will get the opportunity to change their lives, and change the lives of hundreds, by becoming Community Change Agents. We are looking for 10 health conscious go-getters to take part in the Real Meal Revolution’s newest Banting Elite programme on Noakes Foundation bursaries. Banting Elite is an online course that provides […]
EAT BETTER SOUTH AFRICA!
Eat Better South Africa! was born out of community and collaboration. It wasn’t what we first imagined those months ago when Prof Noakes introduced us, and soon after Hassina Kajee, Euodia Samson and I sat around a table at Knead dreaming up our visions for the community. Other than each having changed our lives as Banters, […]
The Cholesterol Myth
My blood (LDL or total) cholesterol has gone up on the diet. Does this mean that I am at increased risk of developing a heart attack and so need to take a cholesterol-lowering statin drug? The evidence is that the average response of the blood (LDL or total) cholesterol concentration to an increased fat intake […]