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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Ansel Keys’ Cholesterol Con, Part 5. by Prof Noakes
How an insecure and unproven hypothesis became a global unchallenged dogma. The ultimate victory of commerce over science. 1957: The first results from the Framingham Heart Study (FHS) are reported. Nine years after the FHS had been initiated as a result of President Truman’s action in signing US National Heart Act into law, the first […]