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“The belief that saturated fat in foods such as butter, cheese and meat clogs arteries is “just plain wrong,” a group of cardiologists say in a new editorial.
Instead, the focus should be on eating a Mediterranean-style diet, taking a brisk walk daily and minimizing stress, they say,” wrote CBC News on April 25, 2017.
CBC News continued, “After decades of thinking that cutting saturated fat in the diet was associated with lowering the risk of cardiovascular disease, Type 2 diabetes and death, doctors and researchers now realize there is no association in healthy adults.
Even in people with established heart disease, reducing saturated fat alone doesn’t reduce heart attacks, says British cardiologist Dr. Aseem Malhotra, of Lister Hospital, and an adviser to the U.K. national obesity forum.”
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