WORLD Heart federation bombshell!

[Neil]

Surely this has to be the big one https://drmalcolmkendrick.org/2017/02/15/what-causes-heart-disease-part-xxvi/#comments
The video in the link has the President of the World Heart Foundation saying (extracted from Macolm Kendricks blog) :

On February the 12th he gave a presentation at a cardiology conference in Davos, Switzerland which can be seen on YouTube. In this presentation, he makes the following points:

Saturated fat does raise LDL, a bit, but has no effect on CVD – maybe slightly beneficial. Monounsaturated fats are slightly beneficial. Polyunsaturated fats are neutral.
Carbohydrate intake is most closely associated with CVD
Fruit and vegetable intake has little or no impact on CVD – nor does fish intake [He wonders where the five portions of fruit and vegetable intake recommendations actually came from]. Vegetables in particular have no benefit.
Legumes – beans and suchlike – are beneficial.
The recommendations on salt intake are completely wrong, and set far too low. For those who do not have high blood pressure, low salt intake increase mortality. On the other hand, high salt intake does no harm.
He recommends higher potassium intake.
He criticizes Ancel Keys and lauds Nina Teicholz [Author of big fat surprise].
Well, good for him. It seems to have taken him a long time to get there, but he did in the end. Of course, mainstream medicine will remain in shocked silence, so you will likely hear nothing of this in the mainstream media. But, hey, you get to see it here. Perhaps someone would like to send this presentation to the BHF and the AHA and ask them for a comment?

Wow!

by the way Malcolms blog is, I believe one of the most interesting blogs on the planet… well worth reading the rest of his posts… after watching that video…

[stacy]

Thanks for posting this. I believe it is just a matter of time because all the evidence is mounting heavily against the old low fat dogma, and very few have ever benefited from it. There is strong commercial resistance but the grass roots energy behind low carb will prevail — there are too many people having their health transformed by ditching the old ways and this will continue to grow.

[richard]

The urinary measurements (and mechanism for estimating 24 hour urine from morning fasted) to establish sodium excretion is hard science. And the J curves for ideal salt intake show our current recommendations to reduce salt to be wrong and that 5g/day of sodium seems to be right amount, and only for people who are hypertensive is more a problem.

But the food frequency surveys that they used to identify the macronutrient effect on disease is just more bogus epidemiological science. It will serve a purpose to confound dietitians using Harvard epidemiological studies to try to support their high grain dietary recommendations.

What I did find interesting was looking at hard endpoints like cardiovascular disease instead of measuring against surrogate end points (like LDL). That’s an improvement in the state of the science.