“According to glycemic index principles, it would be fine for an alcoholic to drink beer, but not whisky since beer raises your blood alcohol level more slowly, making beer healthy, but whisky not. If abstinence is curative, what value is… — Tim Noakes Copy Share Image
“Harcombe explained in detail why CICO is an inadequate model, not least because it contradicts one of the laws of thermodynamics. Tongue-in-cheek, she quoted… — Tim Noakes Copy Share
“Carbohydrates, however, are not essential nutrients but powerful endorphin-activating drugs that are not controlled by the genetic hunger-satiety feedback system.” — Tim Noakes Copy Share
“Johnson’s theory is that the fructose in sugar increases uric acid production, which switches susceptible humans into hibernation mode, producing hyperphagia (overeating due to… — Tim Noakes Copy Share
“The absence of cancer in mummies from Egypt and South America86 led one study to propose: ‘In industrialised societies, cancer is second only to… — Tim Noakes Copy Share
“Ignorance’ is probably the best word to describe public opinion on dietary fat, Harcombe said.” — Tim Noakes Copy Share
“Insulin creates insulin resistance. But insulin resistance also causes high insulin – a classic vicious, or self-reinforcing, cycle. Insulin drives up insulin resistance. This,… — Tim Noakes Copy Share
“The US dietary guidelines were the first ever to inform the general public about what should not be eaten. Specifically, we were told to… — Tim Noakes Copy Share
“There is good evidence that Aborigines are genetically insulin resistant,94 so that some of their metabolic traits ‘are associated with being Aboriginal (mild impairment… — Tim Noakes Copy Share
“the introduction of cereal and grains into the human diet was associated with a dramatic reduction in human height and the first appearance of… — Tim Noakes Copy Share
“If current trends continue, over 700 million adults across the planet will be living with diabetes by 2025.13” — Tim Noakes Copy Share
“At its very core, T2DM can be understood as too much glucose and too much insulin. The solution becomes immediately obvious. We must lower… — Tim Noakes Copy Share
“In the US, the total cost of treatment has been put at two hundred and forty-five billion dollars every year. Equivalent to the entire… — Tim Noakes Copy Share
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.’ – Upton Sinclair, American writer” — Tim Noakes Copy Share
“Obesity is associated with, but does not cause T2DM. Both diseases are the consequence of prolonged over-consumption of the same drug – carbohydrates. T2DM… — Tim Noakes Copy Share
