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