Noakes told him: ‘Unfortunately, sir, you are forgetting that if you raise people on maize, there are costs to us, as taxpayers, because what you are producing is a population that is unhealthy. The rates of obesity and diabetes, cancer, hypertension, dementia are rising exponentially and we are paying those costs. Those costs are not included in what we provide to our poor people. If you were to do an analysis of what is the real cost of providing and weaning onto maize, you would discover, sir, that [the conventional LFHC diet] is an incredibly expensive diet.’
