On today’s Ask Prof Noakes Podcast we take a look at the ‘traditional’ thinking on nutrition that is being taught in schools currently as opposed to the one that describes the LCHF or Banting diet. We received an email from a concerned parent.

They are having a problem trying to explain the benefits of the Banting diet to their child.  She says their son has a teacher at school who is dead against the Banting way of life.  This child’s also had years of people telling him at school that, that he shouldn’t be eating fat because fat is bad for you.

Now the parents are giving him fat.  He’s a bit confused and this parent is trying to make things a bit easier to understand for the child who is 13 years old.  What’s the best way to explain the Banting of LCHF diet to kids?

Professor Tim Noakes: That’s a difficult one.  I think that, that the way I explain it, is knowledge changes.  When I give my talks and what I’ve written in Real Meal Revolution and elsewhere, is that we changed our diet in 1977. It changed on the basis of commercial reasons because big business wanted to promote grain sales in the United States of America.

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