Inconvenient truth or public health threat?

摘要

For Tim Noakes, the University of Cape Town's 'great centenary debate' on what constitutes a healthy diet was a 'kangaroo court', deliberately set up to discredit the 'inconvenient and threatening truths' behind his relatively recent and much-touted high-fat, no sugar, no carbohydrates eating regimen.For his scientific peers and opponents, however (and possibly most of the audience that gathered at UCT's Learning Centre lecture theatre, the 6 December debate being streamed live on the internet and to the nearby Sports Science Centre), he's a threat to the lay public's health and a self-confessed cholesterol denialist'. The scene was set for an epic academic debate between the charismatic Noakes and fellow UCT graduate and fellow A-rated scientist, Jacques Rossouw, the Washington-based epidemiologist on heart disease prevention and former director of the local Medical Research Councils Institute for Nutritional Diseases.