Hi all, I’m hitting my educational limit to respond to those criticising Tim Noakes. Any help appreciated (by adding your comments to the link below).
See comments at bottom of article. https://theconversation.com/losing-weight-is-hard-but-its-not-any-harder-if-you-have-type-2-diabetes-86773
At 3–6 months, the average weight loss in trials in the low CHO (Carb) group ranged from 2.65 to 10.2 kg and in the isoenergetic balanced diet group from 2.65 to 9.4 kg.
At 1–2 years, the range of weight loss was 2.9 to 12.3 kg with low CHO diets and 3.5 to 10.9 kg with isoenergetic balanced diets.
Judging by the very low weight loss numbers, all these diets are crappy ! This study shows something important. All the weight loss methods before Keto were terrible.
KCKO.
@JamieHayes Jamie, I only got partway through your conversation with Rosemary and my eyes started glazing over. She seems pretty logical, but there are so many assumptions - about saturated fats causing heart disease, etc - that you can’t pick apart all of them, and my guess is that she’ll continue to believe what she believes no matter what you say. And it looks like she’s some kind of nutritionist? She’s unlikely to change her views if her livelihood/professional identity are linked to a particular way of eating.
I think that we end up changing minds through personal example (or in your case through professional guidance - you’re a trainer, right?) but arguments with folks who are committed to one way of seeing things is just going to be a waste of your time. But the good news is that you get to be awesome, help your clients be awesome regardless of what the Rosemarys of the world think.
[Sue’s comments are even more maddening, IMO. If we stop eating carbs our blood sugar will fall and without gluconeogenesis we’d go into a coma? And this is hilarious:
Jamie - Tim Noakes DOES promote his lifestyle approach with what Rosemary correctly describes as “religious fervour”. In his seventies, he is still running marathons, and is said to have co0mpleted over 70 marathons and ultra-marathons.
So … marathon running in your 70s means that you have religious fervor about your approach to food? 
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