S.African townships taste 'elite' fat-loaded banting diet A diet that cuts out bread, rice, pasta and sugar, replacing it with meat, butter, cheese and cream has built up a big following in South Africa, where one in every four people is obese. Now a soap actress and a university professor have launched a programme to bring the apparent benefits of banting to poverty-striken neighbourhoods and townships. A natural sound version of an AFPTV report.