“humans were very healthy before they began eating the modern industrial diet with its high amounts of sugar, refined grains, trans fats… — Tim Noakes Copy Share Image
“Medications and insulin do nothing to slow down the progression of this organ damage, because they do not eliminate the toxic sugar… — Tim Noakes Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“If current trends continue, over 700 million adults across the planet will be living with diabetes by 2025.13” — Tim Noakes Copy Share Image
“it is clear that there are stages before frank Type 2 diabetes is diagnosed, where serious damage is already being done. Various… — Tim Noakes Copy Share Image
“Fasting is the simplest and surest method to force your body to burn sugar. Blood glucose is the most easily accessible source… — Tim Noakes Copy Share Image
“There is good evidence that Aborigines are genetically insulin resistant,94 so that some of their metabolic traits ‘are associated with being Aboriginal… — Tim Noakes Copy Share Image
“Over a period of years, you move from pre-diabetes, to diabetes taking a single medication, then two then three and then finally… — Tim Noakes Copy Share Image
“the introduction of cereal and grains into the human diet was associated with a dramatic reduction in human height and the first… — Tim Noakes Copy Share Image
“Another cost of adopting a cereal-based diet may be that human brain size has decreased progressively in the past 10 000 years.… — Tim Noakes Copy Share Image
“Johnson’s theory is that the fructose in sugar increases uric acid production, which switches susceptible humans into hibernation mode, producing hyperphagia (overeating… — Tim Noakes Copy Share Image
“Diabetes is a global health epidemic. In a 2014 study, one of the biggest studies of its kind, scientists from Imperial College… — Tim Noakes Copy Share Image
“The writers in this book share the common belief that diabetes does not need to be chronic and progressive. We also share… — 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,… — Tim Noakes Copy Share Image
“In the course of his career as a naval surgeon travelling the world, Captain T.L. Cleave,97 together with South African physician G.D.… — Tim Noakes Copy Share Image
“The US dietary guidelines were the first ever to inform the general public about what should not be eaten. Specifically, we were… — Tim Noakes Copy Share Image
“As rates of diabetic arterial disease have increased exponentially since the 1977 low-fat, ‘heart-healthy’ dietary guidelines were introduced, we must conclude that… — Tim Noakes Copy Share Image
“She showed how consumption of animal fat was already dropping in the US in the 1960s when the AHA made their pronouncements.… — Tim Noakes Copy Share Image
“The consequences for public health have been nothing short of tragic, Teicholz said. It’s quite likely, she argued, that by shifting towards… — Tim Noakes Copy Share Image
“Most certainly carbohydrates are not necessary for human survival because blood glucose levels are very effectively maintained by gluconeogenesis and glucagon. Carbohydrates… — Tim Noakes Copy Share Image
“Accordingly, the authors concluded: ‘Irrespective of the possible limitations of the ecological study design, the undisputed finding of our paper is the… — Tim Noakes Copy Share Image
“At its very core, T2DM can be understood as too much glucose and too much insulin. The solution becomes immediately obvious. We… — Tim Noakes Copy Share Image
“As a society, we are spending billions of dollars on medications that ineffectively clear sugar from the bloodstream when the simplest, most… — Tim Noakes Copy Share Image
“Insulin creates insulin resistance. But insulin resistance also causes high insulin – a classic vicious, or self-reinforcing, cycle. Insulin drives up insulin… — Tim Noakes Copy Share Image
“T2DM is simply the result of chronic excessive carbohydrate consumption beyond the genetically predetermined maximum carbohydrate handling capacity of the insulin-glucagon hormonal… — Tim Noakes Copy Share Image
“We pretended that using medications to lower blood sugar makes people healthier. But it’s only been a lie. All because we’ve overlooked… — Tim Noakes Copy Share Image
“But the primary problem is the excessive insulin, not the insulin resistance. The tissues (heart, nerves, kidney, eyes) are all increasing their… — Tim Noakes Copy Share Image
“The low-fat diet is over,’ Teicholz declared. Not only does this diet appear to cause heart disease, but in clinical trials on… — Tim Noakes Copy Share Image
“There have been more than 74 RCTs, virtually all on Western populations, including at least 32 that lasted six months or longer,… — Tim Noakes Copy Share Image
“This is precisely why T2DM, unlike virtually any other disease, affects every single part of the body. Every organ suffers the long-term… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“Ignorance’ is probably the best word to describe public opinion on dietary fat, Harcombe said.” — Tim Noakes Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“If current trends continue, over 700 million adults across the planet will be living with diabetes by 2025.13” — Tim Noakes Copy Share Image
“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 Image