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by Amanda on Apr 26th, 2013
Tim Noakes, co-author of Challenging Beliefs: Memoirs of a Career, was interviewed by Matt Johnson from Runner Academy about the research he has conducted on running. Noakes spoke about his own running experiences and the lessons he’s learned. He also elaborated on the research that he has conducted over the years.
Noakes explained why he changed his position on encouraging runners to eat a high carb diet and spoke about the problem of overhydration:
Noakes delivered a TEDx talk last year in which he goes into detail about how the problem of runners overhydrating came about and the consequences it can have:
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by Amanda on Apr 9th, 2013
Twin sisters Jeanne Nielson and Jaqueline Duncan approached Tim Noakes last year to help them with the idea of each twin following a different eating plan in order to gage which worked the best in terms of preventing the high cholesterol that they are genetically prone to.
Nielson followed Noakes’ recommended high fat/protein eating plan while Duncan followed an eating plan that was high in carbs. The twins have blogged about their experience and stress that this is not a scientific study but rather a project that is in the public interest, in which they can demonstrate the impact that your diet can have on your health.
Read their blog to find out more about their project:
How it started
My identical twin sister and I have a family history of high cholesterol (or is it? See the section on cholesterol). Having had it tested a few days apart from each other earlier this year it became a topic of discussion at our grandmother’s birthday dinner. We were debating the big C with our brother when we hit on the differing theories surrounding the dietary causes of cholesterol and how to deal with it.
Health24 reported on the results of the project and spoke to the twins who discussed the results and said that they both felt that the high fat/protein diet was better for them as they are carb resistant:
Twin sisters Jeanne and Jacqueline Howie embarked on the Twin Noakes experiment to test Professor Tim Noakes’ controversial theory about the dangers of a high carbohydrate diet compared to a high fat diet. The experiment is now over, and these are the results.
Noakes and the twins appeared on the Dr Mol Show to discuss the project and Noakes explains some of the reasoning behind the high fat/protein eating plan:
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by Amanda on Apr 8th, 2013
Darrel Bristow-Bovey’s latest column for Random House Struik, “A legacy of books and stories”:
My father would be ninety-two this month if he hadn’t died in 1981.
In the final years before he died, my father mainly did two things – or three, if you count banging his walking stick on the ceiling and shouting at the Houghton kids upstairs to turn down their music. The black rubber tip of the walking stick left small round marks on the ceiling. After his second stroke it became too much effort to lever himself up from his La-Z-Boy recliner, so he had to content himself with looking up from his large-print hardcover library-edition Louis L’Amour cowboy novel and glaring at the ceiling. I knew I should take over banging duties from him. If I stood on the back of the couch and held the stick above my head and jumped I could have made good enough contact, but I never did and afterwards I felt guilty.
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by Amanda on Mar 27th, 2013
Health24 has published an article by Tim Noakes, co-author of Challenging Beliefs: Memoirs of a Career, that explains his high-protein, low-carbs eating plan in detail. He explains how this is not a diet, but a life-long eating plan that is suited for people with carbohydrate resistance.
Noakes addresses concerns people may have about cutting out carbs, such as whether they will still be able to exercise properly. He points out that people who currently eat high-carb diets but who maintain a healthy weight may not benefit from this eating plan.
There has been an extraordinary recent media interest in exactly what Tim Noakes is eating. Some have even asked for the full details of “Tim Noakes’s diet”. It is clear that many South Africans are unhappy with the way they eat or with the unpleasant consequences that they perceive to be due to their dietary choices.
To begin with some initial points. First the eating plan I follow was first prescribed in 1861 by a Harley Street surgeon Mr William Harvey with great success to a corpulent London undertaker, Mr William Banting. Thus it is more appropriately named the Harvey/Banting diet. In time the term to “bant” was introduced into the English language. It referred to the use of this low carbohydrate diet for weight loss.
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by Amanda on Mar 26th, 2013
Luke Alfred, author of The Art of Losing, has written about cricketer Edmund Ntikinca for the Mail & Guardian.
Alfred recently spoke to Ntikinca, who is now 76 years old, about his more than 40 years of playing cricket. He named the time he “played against Tiffie Barnes’s Malays there in Mayfair”, when he returned seven for 13, as the highlight of his career.
Several weeks ago at the Wanderers, with the Lions in the early stages their Ram Slam T20 campaign, I sat down with Edmund Ntikinca, a cricketer who played in that very stadium 40 years ago in a historical curiosity called the Datsun Double-Wicket competition. Ntikinca and his partner, Edward Habane, beat the New Zealanders Bruce Taylor and Bev Congdon early on but then found themselves steamrollered as they struggled to get to grips with the high-flyers of the international game.
The tournament, arranged by Lee Irvine and the public relations supremo Robin Binkes, was won by the Rhodesian pair of Brian Davidson and Mike Procter. They earned a winners’ cheque of R1 500 for their efforts.
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by Amanda on Mar 19th, 2013
Darrel Bristow-Bovey’s latest column for Random House Struik – “ murder, meat … and good old-fashioned mystery”:
I’m outraged. No, don’t try to talk me out of it, I’m jolly outraged. My rage has been outed. My out, formally unraged, no longer is. My outrage is incandescent, magnesium-flamed and only slightly dimmed by the fact that I’m not sure exactly what it is I’m outraged about. I know I need a dose of outrage, because it’s a fact universally acknowledged that you’re not allowed to write a column in South Africa at the moment without it, and I know it’s more fun to be actually outraged about something, because otherwise how will I know which people to feel morally and intellectually superior to for not being as outraged as I am? But what, though? What?
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by Amanda on Mar 11th, 2013
Tim Noakes joined Kgomotso Matsunyane on the Weekend Breakfast show on 567 Cape Talk. This week he explained the concept of the “Bliss Point”, which is manufactured by the food industry by adding enough fat, salt and sugar into food to make it “blissful” and therefore addictive.
Noakes explained that we are hard-wired to love sugar and that once the food industry realised this they spent billions on creating food that taps into our cravings. He said that you can exercise as much as you like but you won’t lose weight unless you cut out the addictive food:
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by Amanda on Feb 19th, 2013
Tim Noakes joined Kgomotso Matsunyane to discuss diet and exercise on 567 Cape Talk. He explained why his dietary advice has changed over the years from the high carb diet that he was prescribing in the 80s to the high fat and low carb diet that he now recommends.
Noakes said that many people are carb resistant and offered a test to tell if you’re one of them: “Walk towards the mirror and if your stomach hits before your nose, then you’re carbohydrate resistant!”
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by Amanda on Jan 28th, 2013
Darren Scott from Ballz Radio spoke to Luke Alfred about his book, The Art of Losing: Why the Proteas Choke at the Cricket World Cup.
Alfred took the opportunity to clarify that the book isn’t malicious: “it’s an attempts to…sort of drill down into this peculiar anomaly where on the one hand we can be ranked the number one test side in the world, but on the other when it gets to those really hardcore matches when things really count and you have to win to get through to the next round we somehow can’t jump through that hoop,” he explained.
Watch or listen to the full interview:
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by Amanda on Nov 30th, 2012
Zebra Press and Troyeville Hotel take pleasure in inviting you to dinner and a discussion about The Art of Losing: Why the Proteas Choke at the Cricket World Cup by Luke Alfred.
Alfred will be talking to Peter Bruce, columnist and publisher of Business Day. The event costs R179 per person, excluding drinks. Booking is essential.
See you there!
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