Pass the butter: Cutting saturated fat does not reduce heart disease risk, cardiologists say

[Northerner]

The belief that saturated fat in foods such as butter, cheese and meat clogs arteries is "just plain wrong," a group of cardiologists say in a new editorial.

Instead, the focus should be on eating a Mediterranean-style diet, taking a brisk walk daily and minimizing stress, they say.

After decades of thinking that cutting saturated fat in the diet was associated with lowering the risk of cardiovascular disease, Type 2 diabetes and death, doctors and researchers now realize there is no association in healthy adults.

Even in people with established heart disease, reducing saturated fat alone doesn't reduce heart attacks, says British cardiologist Dr. Aseem Malhotra, of Lister Hospital, and an adviser to the U.K. national obesity forum.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/pass-...eart-disease-risk-cardiologists-say-1.4085453

 

[mikeyB]

What goes around comes around. I've never stopped using butter. It's natural, not like these chemical infested artificial spreads.

All we need now is a report saying smoking is good for you, and t'job's a good un.

 

[Lucy Honeychurch]

There's nothing as nice as butter on toast, artificial spreads are yuck!

 

[trophywench]

Ah well - the news is full of the backlash denying it now and accusing Malhotra et al of denying the proof that they are wrong and only got their answer because they cherry picked the evidence they used. (Really? And the antis didn't?) 😡

 

[grovesy]

The book Doctoring Data covers the fact thoose who challenge the accepted current thinking find themselves being criticized or ostricized.