Tim Noakes - Still taking the battle to Big Pharma, changing our world for the better, one Banting convert at a time

It has been many years since SA's globally respected sports and nutrition scientist Prof Tim Noakes engaged at any length with a South African journalist. So this interview with BizNews editor Alec Hogg is a rare treat for Noakes's legion of fans, millions of whom credit their improved health to his research into and promotion of the Low Carb High Fat diet, or Banting. Mercilessly attacked in his homeland by the authorities and sectors of the media because he questioned the popular narrative on diet (and Big Pharma), Noakes enjoys huge respect globally, and among the general public. Especially so for his work on using the LCHF diet to counter diabetes, the modern epidemic. This in-depth, highly personal discussion explores what motivated the free-thinking academic turned prodigious author to turn his back on what made him the poster boy for an entire industry - similtaneously abandoning his favoured status with the establishment. Prof Noakes's story is an inspiration for everyone who believes there is always a better way. It also reminds us that popularly held beliefs, often those of which we are most fond, require constant challenging for mankind to continue moving ahead. Because today's conventional wisdom is often tomorrow's misguided ignorance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices