"Banting" guru, Tim Noakes, has been cleared of misconduct after he tweeted a response about whether a breast-feeding mother should continue using the Banting diet, in which he said that babies should be weaned onto the diet. Advocate Joan Adams‚ the chairman of an independent panel that considered a misconduct charge brought against Noakes by the Health Professions Council of SA (HSPCA)‚ announced the verdict in Cape Town on Friday after reading a 60-page judgment. She said four of the five panel members were party to the judgment. The other member disagreed with the outcome. Noakes‚ whose book The Real Meal Revolution promotes a low-carbohydrate‚ high-fat (LCHF) or Banting diet‚ was called before the HPCSA after the former president of the Association for Dietetics in SA‚ Claire Julsing Strydom‚ lodged a complaint against him. It was prompted by a tweet that Noakes sent to Pippa Leenstra in February 2014 after she asked for his opinion about the diet when breast-feeding. Noakes ha...
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