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From Physician's Health Watch:
Discussion of the paper by Alliance for Natural Health here.
An interventional cardiologist argues in BMJ against "the mantra that saturated fat must be removed to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease." In addition, Aseem Malhotra writes that the obsession with cholesterol "has led to the overmedication of millions of people with statins."
Obesity rates paradoxically increased in the face of a concurrent reduction in fat consumption, he writes. "When you take the fat out, the food tastes worse. The food industry compensated by replacing saturated fat with added sugar."
Statins, he argues, work by being anti-inflammatory and by stabilizing coronary plaque -- their effects on cholesterol are beside the point (and their side effects too frequent).
The essay concludes: "It is time to bust the myth of the role of saturated fat in heart disease and wind back the harms of dietary advice that has contributed to obesity."
Link(s):
BMJ essay (Free) http://click.jwatch.org/cts/click?q=227;67907800;TDASmFEyv1/AMDt+9h/YGwK2sWe7ocVtYZy6jqCqeDE=
Background: Previous Physician's First Watch coverage questioning the dogma against saturated fat (Free) http://click.jwatch.org/cts/click?q=227;67907800;TDASmFEyv1/AMDt+9h/YG+eSenWV7hiuYZy6jqCqeDE=
Discussion of the paper by Alliance for Natural Health here.