Top heart docs give clean bill of health to saturated fats
It’s the deadly dietary advice that’s been responsible for making generations of Americans fat and sick.
At this point, the fear of saturated fat should have gone the way of the horse and buggy. But its staying power is nothing short of amazing.
Now, an international group of cardiologists have said enough is enough.
They published a report that punches holes in just about everything you’ve been told where heart disease is concerned.
And what they’re saying you should be doing to keep your heart healthy is something you can begin right now!
What some top heart docs from the UK, Switzerland, and the U.S. want you to know is that to prevent heart disease and live longer, forget just about all the advice the mainstream has been feeding you for decades.
Starting with…the saturated fat myth.
“This idea that dietary saturated fats build up in the coronary arteries is complete unscientific nonsense,” is what one of the researchers, Dr. Aseem Malhotra, a cardiologist at the Lister Hospital in the UK, had to say.
This study confirms that eating real food containing saturated fat is not linked to heart disease, stroke or type 2 diabetes. These doctors also didn’t find a connection between saturated fats and heart disease if you’re healthy — nor any benefit in cutting them out if you have heart disease.
And that’s even if you’ve suffered a heart attack!
The next bogus concept these medical myth-busters tackled is the comparison of heart disease to a “clogged pipe.” It doesn’t work that way, they said.
If that were true, the use of stents to prop open arteries would actually prevent heart attacks — something studies show is not the case, the team said.
The group also tossed out of the window that sacred-cow concept known as LDL or so-called “bad” cholesterol. (Which is part of the house of cards that statin drugs are built on).
If you’re over 60, said Dr. Malhotra, LDL cholesterol “is not associated with cardiovascular disease.” Actually, it’s low LDL in seniors that’s linked to “all-cause mortality,” he said.
That’s something we told eAlert readers a year ago!
So what, then, is the real cause of heart disease? According to these doctors, chronic inflammation is the primary culprit.
And that inflammation is triggered, in part, by consuming not the hamburger… but the bun, the French fries and all the other processed foods loaded with refined carbohydrates.
Other causes of inflammation include vegetable oils — such as canola and corn oil — that are recommended by the American Heart Association!
So, instead of putting fake cream in your coffee, eating fake eggs, fake butter spread, GMO corn and canola oils and other processed foods, here’s what the group recommends you do to protect your heart:
- Stop worrying about fat and eat more “real food,” such as nuts, olive oil, oily fish, lots of veggies and “very little refined carbs and sugar.”
- Do whatever it takes to cut down the stress in your life. It’s known that stress can raise levels of the hormone cortisol, which, in turn, creates inflammation.
- Make walking a part of your daily routine, trying to get at least 20 minutes a day.
Dr. Malhotra says that he follows his own advice, which is basically built on the groundwork of “the most beneficial components of the Mediterranean diet” — something that includes lots of extra virgin olive oil.
As expected, the team has been attacked by the mainstream, most especially by the former chair of the American Heart Association’s nutrition committee, Dr. Frank Sacks.
He called the report “misleading,” and full of “obsolete methodology.”
But of course, that’s to be expected. You can’t try to undo a half-a-century of bad advice without taking a beating!
“Does saturated fat clog your arteries? Controversial paper says ‘no'” Susan Scutti, April 27, 2017, CNN, cnn.com
