It is hard to give up entrenched beliefs. We cling to our dogmas the way a drowning man holds on to a life preserver. Eventually, though, the weight of the evidence forces people to accept a new paradigm. That was true for the flat earth defenders. Perhaps it’s time for the diet dictocrats to reconsider their demonization of saturated fat.
The New Paradigm:
Three cardiologists have broken ranks with many of their colleagues in an editorial published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine (April 25, 2017). These are not just any old cardiologists.
One is Rita Redberg, MD, MSc. She is Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and Director of the UCSF Women’s Cardiovascular Center. She is editor of one of the world’s pre-eminent medical journals, JAMA Internal Medicine. Pascal Meier, MD, is an interventional cardiologist at University Hospital Geneva and The Heart Hospital, University College London Hospitals. He is Editor-In-Chief of Open Heart (BMJ), associate editor of the BMJ (British Medical Journal) and associate editor of the Cochrane Heart Group. Lead author, Aseem Malhotra, MD, is consultant cardiologist at London’s Lister hospital and at the Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust. He has emphasized an anti-inflammatory diet, exercise and stress management in helping control heart disease.
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