Cape Town - During an inquiry into his professional conduct, Banting advocate Professor Tim Noakes caused quite a stir when he said “If Banting was a drug, we’d win a Nobel.”
IOL and the Cape Times have been covering his hearing extensively over the last year, and asked our audience what they thought of a low-carb, high-fat diet.
| @ProfTimNoakes said: If Banting was a drug, we’d win a Nobel - https://t.co/oHrm5GgBA7
Do you believe in the Banting diet? @CapeTimesSA
— IOL News (@IOL) October 20, 2016
We created polls with the question: “Do you believe in the Banting diet?”
A total of 671 votes were cast.
From the results about 73 percent of people voted “Yes, It works for me”, 14 percent voted “No, it's pseudoscience” while 13 percent were still on the fence about the diet.
At one stage the results were flooded by Noakes’s supporters after he encouraged his followers on Twitter to vote.
IOL also received a staggering amount of people tweeting before and after pictures since they started Banting.
Cape Times