The Eat Right Revolution

Your guide to living a longer, healthier life

- Tim Noakes And Marika Sboros

It means working with doctors and other health professionals when you are ill, questioning them and understanding that they don’t have all the answers and can make mistakes. We are not afraid of mistakes. After all, as Albert Einstein said, ‘A person who has never made mistakes has never tried anything new.’

There are some basics to keep in mind. US internal medicine physician Dr Blake Ferguson Donaldson expresses them in his book Strong Medicine, first published in 1961. Donaldson said that it doesn’t matter how much doctors know about diabetes. If they can’t get the weight off, they are ‘useless to the patients’. He also said that doctors who ‘have a tendency to be fat themselves and have learned to control it seem to have a better understanding of it’.

He argued strongly for a meat-only diet. ‘The fat man has to make up his mind whether to crack up on glycogen from carbohydrate or to live well on ketones and fatty acids from fat meat,’ he wrote. ‘Obesity is just as simple and just as complicated as that.’

Tim and I do not argue for a carnivorous (meat-only) diet, but we are not against one either. We simply provide the perspective of evolution to remind you that a carnivorous diet is not the killer that many doctors and dietitians still claim that it is. It will not cause you to die from scurvy or any other deficiency disease. It will not make you more aggressive, prone to violence, masturbation (see Chapter 3) and all manner of spiritual ills. It will not harm your heart or overall health.