David Rowe sent us an email this week. His entire family buy into the benefits of the LCHF Diet. He is however sitting with a very difficult situation.

His daughter, who is still in school, is being taught one thing at home about the LCHF diet but is being taught about the conventional food pyramid at school, but doesn’t believe any of it. She will obviously need to write exams on it and unless she tows the line she will not pass the exam.

What do you suggest David and his daughter do in this situation?

Professor Tim Noakes: To answer David’s quesiton, you know, I am occasionally invited to lecture the medical students, and at the end of the lecture the students come up and say to me, Prof, if we say what you say we’re going fail our exams.  That is a failure of education.  Because that suggests that there is only one answer.

The reality is, in education you have to tell people the whole truth.  And if there are two models, or two explanations, you have to give both.  And you say listen, this is the story.  For example, the whole story about fat.

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