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Noakes hits back at researchers
Cape Town – Professor Tim Noakes has been found not guilty of misconduct, a professional conduct committee found on Friday.
Four of the five committee members found that it was not proven that Noakes had acted in capacity as a doctor.
And it was not a reasonable inference that he was undermining breast milk.
Noakes – whose book
The Real Meal Revolution
promotes a low-carbohydrate, high-fat (LCHF) diet – was charged with giving unconventional medical advice via Twitter two years ago after he advised a breastfeeding mother to wean her baby onto LCHF.
The independent committee made its finding following a protracted hearing into a complaint by the former president of the Association for Dietetics in South Africa, Claire Julsing-Strydom.
She had complained about Noakes giving advice relating to his LCHF diet on Twitter to a mother.
The mother's tweet read: "@ProfTimNoakes @SalCreed is LCHF eating ok for breastfeeding mums? Worried about all the dairy + cauliflower = wind for babies?? [sic]"
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Noakes advised her to wean her child onto LCHF foods, which he described as "real" foods.
His tweet read: "Baby doesn't eat the dairy and cauliflower. Just very healthy high-fat breast milk. Key is to ween [sic] baby onto LCHF."
He has over 85 000 followers on the social network, on which he regularly shares articles and research supporting the LCHF, or banting, diet.
Earlier in the hearing, which started in 2015, witnesses for the HPCSA said a consultation was required before any advice could be given or diagnosis made.
Julsing-Strydom brought the complaint.
Noakes questioned why Leenstra, who ostensibly could have suffered harm, did not lay the charge. He argued he did not give advice on breastfeeding, but on weaning.
Noakes alleged that Julsing-Strydom’s complaint was not centred on breastfeeding, but on the diet he advocates in his book, of which she did not approve.
The HPCSA argues that Noakes gave unconventional and unscientific advice, and was unprofessional in his conduct for dispensing the advice via social media.
Advice 'anything but unconventional'
Two international witnesses testified in his defence – diet and health researcher Dr Zoe Harcombe from London, and investigative journalist Nina Teicholz from New York, who is the author of
The Big Fat Surprise
, which "explains the politics, personalities, and history of how we came to believe that dietary fat is bad for health".
Noakes during the hearing argued that his advice was anything but unconventional, quoting research from as far back as the 1800s before the boom in obesity rates.
Noakes said he had personally not made a cent from his banting books and that his sole intention was to educate people to be more healthy.
He and his legal team pointed out there were no studies proving that LCHF diets were harmful, and he had also never told the mother not to breastfeed.
Noakes, listed as the 38th most followed scientist on Twitter at the time, and the 30th most important tweeter on obesity, during the hearing said the future of medicine lies on the Internet and social media, and this is where people will get their information – "in the wisdom of the crowds".
Professor Willie Pienaar, a psychiatrist and part-time bioethicist, during the hearing said that doctors cannot give expert advice without consultation.
He argued that Noakes had the opportunity to refer the mother to a general practitioner, and pointed out that he didn’t ask the age or health status of the baby.
He said his main concern was that Noakes had given specialist advice via social media and that consultation was key to giving the correct diagnosis.
Expert witness Professor Este Vorster, a former president of the Nutrition Society of SA, said Noakes could not give convincing evidence that his was the optimal diet for lactating mothers.
Twitter should not be used for medical advice and an assessment should have been conducted, she testified.
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MPs must be voice of the people, not parties in Zuma 'no confidence' motion - Mbeki
Cape Town – ANC MP Dr Makhosi Khoza says her party could have handled the upcoming motion of no confidence in President Jacob Zuma better, as it is now caught between choosing the party or society.
ANC MPs were now "in the lion's den" amid widespread calls for President Jacob Zuma to resign from office this past week, she told News24 on Monday.
"Whichever way we vote as the ANC, we are going to be dividing society," she said ahead of next Tuesday’s motion.
"If you are going to go into Parliament and use your numbers, and disregard whatever else has been said, you are actually alienating a lot of people, who are considering you a leader of society."
Ideally, the ANC ought to have prevented a vote of no confidence by asking society to allow the party to "take the correct decision" at its consultative conference in June.
'ANC should not ignore marchers'
If the party "had the will", it could have decided differently and decisively on the matter to mitigate society's fears, within its structures.
Whichever move they make, it would either break or build society, she said, both at home and also in its work on the rest of the African continent.
"Even if we win in numbers, we will not win as ANC."
Khoza, who is chairperson of the portfolio committee on public service and administration, criticised the ANC’s leadership failures in a Facebook post this week.
She told News24 her party should not completely disregard the message of over 60 000 South Africans who marched against Zuma on Friday.
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"Of the 11 million people who voted for the ANC in 2014, only around one million are paid-up members of the party," she said.
Many of the other 10 million who voted for the party could have participated in Friday's marches.
"The ANC cannot afford to be inward-looking here.
"If we ignore this, we are going to find the ANC out of power."
Khoza said she decided to express her views publicly because she could not remember society marching in those numbers for a single cause in post-democratic South Africa. The last time was in the 1980s.
'We must be empathetic'
"I am seeing an ANC that is saying, let's unite, let's use our numbers, and not asking, 'Is there a legitimate reason for people to leave their working day on a Friday to march?'
"There must be a reason. We must be empathetic."
She said she didn't see elements of racism in the pictures of the marches she saw, but did not rule out that it could have happened elsewhere.
President Jacob Zuma said on Monday that the marches were racist.
"Placards at the marches depicting monkeys indicated that our white counterparts view black people as less of human beings," he said at the commemoration of the 24th anniversary of the assassination of SACP leader Chris Hani.
Khoza referred to the ANC's founding values.
"Nothing I'm saying is not in the party's Constitution. I'm not saying anything new or reinventing anything.
"If the vision we have for society is still to build a non-racial, non-sexist society, and for us to be leaders, we should be saying, what is in the best interest of this society?"
On Tuesday, former president Thabo Mbeki said
MPs did not have to vote according to party lines
in the motion of no confidence against Zuma.
"It is therefore obvious and logical that Members of Parliament (MPs), each elected to this position by the people as a whole, and never by individual political parties, including their own, must act in Parliament as the voice of the people, not the voice of the political parties to which they might belong," he wrote in a letter published in The Star.
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