New Wolf Diet requires followers to eat just one meal a day

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New Wolf Diet requires followers to eat just one meal a day

Tuesday, February 21st, 2017 by Katharine Jacobs

Judging by the number of banting dishes on restaurant menus, the LCHF diet isn’t going anywhere. But could a new, even more outlandish diet soon become de rigueur? Could Marius Theron be the new Tim Noakes?

In Sunday night’s episode of Carte Blanche, the team featured Marius Theron and his high-fat Wolf Diet approach: a plan that encourages eating just once a day.

Theron is the author of Secrets of the Diet Codes, which features a foreword by professor Tim Noakes, and encourages eating just one meal a day at dinner time, with a high-protein, high-fat and low-carb focus.

Ernie was watching his rolls, but WAIT DON’T EAT THAT, ERNIE, CHOCOLATE IS TOXIC FOR DOGS! Photo: iStock.

It may sound insane, but recent studies have pointed to the benefits of eating less frequently. In 2014, researchers found that fasting for three days could regenerate our whole immune system, saying that fasting “flips a regenerative switch”, which triggers stem cells to create new white blood cells, eventually regenerating the whole immune system. The researchers were particularly excited about the prospect of fasting in assisting cancer patients in recovering from chemotherapy.

Could Theron be onto something?

Dietician Thando Mabaso raised concerns during the show, and it seems likely that others will, too, as the advice is diametrically opposed to standard healthy eating advice.

We’re not dieticians, so we’ll leave the serious discussions to them, but we do have some concerns, not least of which is: What will we would do all day if we are allowed to eat only once?!

(It goes without saying that you should consult a doctor before attempting a radical diet like this.)

6 Comments

André Gresse
May 29, 2017

I am a retired physiologist and can not find any fault with his reasoning. I think he has some very good ideas.

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Harold
June 23, 2017

I have being eating 1 meal a day for about 3 months. My weight has come down from 80 kgs to 67kgs. I am 71 years old, had a bypass op. in 2005 and since the weight loss have started doing 5km. Parkruns on Sat.mornings.
Try it. Be brave. My BMI has fallen from 26 to 23. Just love being thin.

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Lawrence
March 18, 2018

Was Banting for 14 months.lost 30 kg.had inlaws staying for 3 weeks disrupting my routine and accidentally started the wolf eating plan. Really enjoying it. Seems so natural to me.

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Karin Smit
May 7, 2018

can someone send me this diet, i have been trying to get this now for days, without any luck. i have left my email address please

Karin