Tim Noakes found not guilty of something or other. Many years ago I started looking at research into cardiovascular disease. Almost as soon as I began my journey, I came to recognise that many facts I had been taught in medical school were plain wrong. This did not come as a great surprise. Anyone familiar with the history of scientific research will soon find out that widely established facts are often not true at all. My mother still likes to tell me that when she was at school it was taught, with unshakeable confidence, that there are 4. Watch Bob Funk Online Free 2016. There are 4. 6. In addition, it became clear that, not only were certain key facts wrong, there seemed to be a co ordinated effort to attack anyone who dared to challenge them. One stand out example of such an attack was what happened to John Yudkin, the founder of the nutrition department at the University of Londons Queen Elizabeth College. He did not believe that saturated fat was to blame for heart disease, the idea at the centre of the diet hypothesis. At the time, this theory was being relentlessly driven by Ancel Keys, and it had gained widespread acceptance amongst the scientific community. In 1. 97. 2 Yudkin wrote the book Pure white and deadly in which he outlined why sugar was the probable cause of heart disease, not fats. He was then ruthlessly attacked. As outlined by the Telegraph The British Sugar Bureau put out a press release dismissing Yudkins claims as emotional assertions and the World Sugar Research Organisation described his book as science fiction. When Yudkin sued, it printed a mealy mouthed retraction, concluding Professor Yudkin recognises that we do not agree with his views and accepts that we are entitled to express our disagreement. Yudkin was uninvited to international conferences. Others he organised were cancelled at the last minute, after pressure from sponsors, including, on one occasion, Coca Cola. OykT0/640x360-G2w.jpg' alt='Watch The Reckoning Dailymotion' title='Watch The Reckoning Dailymotion' />The big news, this past week, has been Hurricane Harvey and the disaster inflicted upon Houston. The question in my mind aside from my concern about the immediate. Statistical Techniques Statistical Mechanics. Heartland is m favorite show on TV. It is very well written, engaging, enjoyable for any age. I watch UP TV most of the time because its the only channel that has. In the days after 911, numerous pilots and aviation experts commented on the elaborate maneuvers performed by the aircraft in the terrorist attacks, and the advanced. When he did contribute, papers he gave attacking sugar were omitted from publications. The British Nutrition Foundation, one of whose sponsors was Tate Lyle, never invited anyone from Yudkins internationally acclaimed department to sit on its committees. Even Queen Elizabeth College reneged on a promise to allow the professor to use its research facilities when he retired in 1. Pure, White and Deadly. Only after a letter from Yudkins solicitor was he offered a small room in a separate building. Can you wonder that one sometimes becomes quite despondent about whether it is worthwhile trying to do scientific research in matters of health he wrote. The results may be of great importance in helping people to avoid disease, but you then find they are being misled by propaganda designed to support commercial interests in a way you thought only existed in bad B films. And this propaganda didnt just affect Yudkin. By the end of the Seventies, he had been so discredited that few scientists dared publish anything negative about sugar for fear of being similarly attacked. As a result, the low fat industry, with its products laden with sugar, boomed. Let us scroll forward some forty years or so, to Professor Tim Noakes. Regular readers of this blog will have heard of Tim Noakes who is, to quote Wikipedia. South African scientist, and an emeritus professor in the Division of Exercise Science and Sports Medicine at the University of Cape Town. At one time he was a great supporter of the high carb low fat diet, and even helped to develop high carb energy foods for long distance runners. However, for various reasons most importantly studying the science again he completely changed his mind. He is now a very well known proponent of the high fat, low carb HFLC diet, as a way to treat obesity and type II diabetes and improve athletes performance. A couple of years ago, he was dragged in front of the Health Professions Council of South Africa HPCSA after being charged with unprofessional conduct for providing advice to a breast feeding mother in a tweet. LybVO0/hqdefault.jpg' alt='Watch The Reckoning Dailymotion' title='Watch The Reckoning Dailymotion' />Baby doesnt eat the dairy and cauliflower. Just very healthy high fat breast milk. Key is to wean sic baby onto LCHF. The case against him was obviously, and almost laughably, bogus. The HPCSA did not even as I understand it have any guidelines on what constitutes an on line doctor patient relationship. You could make the case that it is difficult to find someone guilty of breaching rules, when there are no rules. Despite this, I thought they would get him on some technicality or other. Just as happened to Gary Fettke in AustraliaProminent Launceston surgeon Gary Fettke has been banned from giving nutritional advice to his patients or the public for the rest of his medical career. He was recently notified by the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency that he was not to speak about nutrition while he remained a medical practitioner. OnePeterFive is a US 501c3 organization which relies on your taxdeductible contributions. Please help us to meet our expenses by donating todayDr Fettke is a strong advocate for a low carb, high fat diet as a means to combat diabetes and ill health. AHPRA told Dr Fettke there is nothing associated with your medical training or education that makes you an expert or authority in the field of nutrition, diabetes or cancer. It told him the ban was regardless of whether his views on the benefits of the low carbohydrate, high fat lifestyle become accepted best medical practice in the future. Lo, it came to pass that Gary Fettke cannot even talk about a high fat diet, even if it becomes accepted best medical practice. Ho hum, now that really makes sense. At this point you may possibly, just possibly, see some parallels between Tim Noakes, an advocate of the high fat low carb diet in South Africa, and Gary Fettke, an advocate of the high fat low carb diet in Australia. Also, of course, John Yudkin, who was attacked and effectively silenced by the sugar industry many years ago. This would be, I suppose, the very same sugar industry who paid Harvard researchers in the 1. Influential research that downplayed the role of sugar in heart disease in the 1. Monday. With backing from a sugar lobby, scientists promoted dietary fat as the cause of coronary heart disease instead of sugar, according to a historical document review published in JAMA Internal Medicine. Though the review is nearly 5. C4.jpg' alt='Watch The Reckoning Dailymotion' title='Watch The Reckoning Dailymotion' />The findings come from documents recently found by a researcher at the University of San Francisco, which show that scientists at the Sugar Research Foundation SRF, known today as the Sugar Association, paid scientists to do a 1.