Stop worrying about your heart
LINDEN - Heart disease is a thing of the past, professor Tim Noakes insisted at a health conference on Tuesday.
Bring on the bacon; devour that fatty lamb chop and have an extra-large scoop of butter.
Professor Tim Noakes was in town again, talking locals through the intricacies of the Bunting diet with a host of experts in tow.
Noakes, Karen Thomson from HELP (Harmony Eating and Lifestyle Programme), Rael Koping (a registered dietician who prescribes the Bunting diet) and Gail Ashford (a specialist family physician) took over the Cheese Gourmet in Linden from early to late on Tuesday to enlighten Joburgers about this revolutionary (and controversial) lifestyle plan. The Bunting mantra of ‘low carbohydrates, high fat’ should be familiar by now to anyone remotely health-conscious, but Noakes had extra food for thought to share with his attentive audience.
“We don’t need to protect our hearts,” he announced towards the end of the conference.
“Heart disease is in fact declining rapidly. In 20 years it might be completely eradicated.”
Heart disease (also known as cardiovascular disease), Noakes said, was non-existent prior to 1914. There was a sudden incline in people experiencing heart problems, especially escalating during the 1950s.
“Nobody knows why heart disease was so prevalent, or why it peaked when it did, but it’s in the past. Very soon it will cease to exist,” Noakes said. The numbers of coronary heart disease and strokes have also lessened markedly.
“The real killer is diabetes, we should be vigilant against that now,” Noakes insisted.
“And preventing that is simple – don’t eat carbs, and you won’t get it.”
Avoiding carbohydrates – and sugar – are the fundamentals of the Bunting-diet, and Ashford and Koping convincingly explained the science behind the food fad sweeping the nation.
Conference attendees were treated to three scrumptious Bunting-approved meals throughout the day, courtesy of the Cheese Gourmet staff.
