Time to reset: What causes coronary artery disease? Dr Aseem Malhotra.

Britain's leading anti-sugar campaigner and one of the most prolific doctors in the world influencing obesity thinking and highlighting the harms of too much medicine. In addition to being a Consultant Cardiologist, Dr Malhotra is a member of the board of trustees of UK health think tank, The King’s Fund and a member of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges Choosing Wisely Steering Group Here’s the link to his website: http://doctoraseem.com/biography/ Topics covered include: No association of saturated fats and heart disease in primary or secondary prevention studies. Focus on sugar - • CVD mortality has come via reduction in smoking & trans fats with better acute AMI management. • Statins have a number needed to treat of 1 in 83 for mortality in secondary prevention in men • Stents save lives during heart attacks but not for 'stable' coronary disease • PREDIMED and Lyon heart study • Cholesterol is not the mechanism of action of how diet studies work • Practical explanation-of frying vegetable oils and dangerous omega 6 (high omega 6 to omega 3 is bad) • Butter and coconut oils have saturated fatty acids and are stable in cooking. • Criticism from the Centre for evidence based medicine (Oxford). Here is the editorial (Free) in BJSM:

http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2017/03/31/bjsports-2016-097285