This is the most amazing medical article I've ever read...
(From the British Medical Journal)
Saturated fat does not clog the arteries: coronary heart disease is a chronic inflammatory condition, the risk of which can be effectively reduced from healthy lifestyle interventions:
http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2017/03/31/bjsports-2016-097285
Summary:
Saturated fats do not cause heart attacks - sugar, fructose, refined carbs, a sedentary lifestyle and stress do.
We should all be eating Mediterranean diets (vegetables, extra virgin olive oil, oily fish*, nuts) and exercising daily.
Decades of emphasis on the primacy of lowering plasma cholesterol, as if this was an end in itself and driving a market of ‘proven to lower cholesterol’ and ‘low-fat’ foods and medications, has been misguided.
And the piece de resistance:
Coronary artery disease is a chronic inflammatory disease and it can be reduced effectively by walking 22 min a day and eating real food. There is no business model or market to help spread this simple yet powerful intervention.
*Women of child-bearing age or younger should be careful how much fish they eat due to mercury content which remains in the body forever (thanks to man-made pollution)
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