Eating Fat Is GOOD For You

A DIET packed with fat is the healthy way to prevent heart disease, a leading British expert has claimed.  Dr Aseem Malhotra, an interventional cardiology specialist registrar at Croydon University Hospital, London, slammed the routine prescriptions of statins and claimed a diet high in saturated fats could be three times more effective at lowering cholesterol.

Writing on bmj.com, he said a preoccupation with levels of total cholesterol “has diverted our attention” from the worse risks of a condition known as atherogenic ­dyslipidemia, which is an unfavorable ratio of blood fats. 

 

He said saturated fat has been demonized since the 1970s when a landmark study found a link between coronary heart disease and total ­cholesterol, which correlated with the percentage of calories provided by saturated fat.

Read the entire article at: http://www.express.co.uk/news/health/438600/Eating-fat-is-good-for-you-Doctors-change-their-minds-after-40-years

 

  

 

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