Dr. Davis posted an article, emphasis mine:
Cardiologist Dr Aseem Malhotra says the obsession with a low-fat diet
has “paradoxically increased” the risk of heart disease.
Other experts have added their voices to his controversial call to end
40 years of advice to cut saturated fat – which has been described as
“the greatest medical error of our time".
They claim the guidance has left millions of people at risk of
developing cardiovascular disease and “led to the over-medication of
millions of people with statins”.
Dr 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.
But recent studies “have not supported any significant association
between saturated fat intake and risk of cardiovascular disease” and
saturated fat has actually been found to be protective.
A Journal of the American Medical Association study recently revealed
that a “low fat” diet showed the greatest drop in energy expenditure
and increased insulin resistance – which is a precursor to diabetes –
compared with a low carbohydrate and low glycaemic index (GI) diet.
Professor David Haslam, chair of the National Obesity Forum, said:
“The assumption has been made that increased fat in the bloodstream is
caused by increased saturated fat in the diet, whereas modern evidence
is proving that refined carbohydrates and sugar in particular are
actually the culprits.”