How Suppressed Science Led To Widespread Misunderstanding About Fat And The Root Cause Of Heart Disease

This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, Athletic Greens, and
BiOptimizers. For many of us, growing up we were told that eating
foods high in fat is bad for you. Many people still believe that
eating cholesterol and fat, especially saturated fat, causes heart
attacks. Yet recent studies show there is no association between
saturated fat consumption and adverse health outcomes like coronary
disease or heart attacks. We also don’t hear enough about insulin
resistance as a main driver of cardiovascular disease.  In
today’s episode, I talk with Nina Teicholz and Dr. Aseem Malhotra
about the origins of the hypothesis that dietary fat raises
cholesterol, subsequently increasing heart disease, and how it
caught hold. Nina Teicholz is a science journalist and author of
the New York Times bestseller The Big Fat Surprise, which upended
the conventional wisdom on dietary fat—especially saturated fat—and
spurred a new conversation about whether these fats in fact cause
heart disease. Nina is also the founder of the Nutrition Coalition,
a nonprofit working to ensure that government nutrition policy is
transparent and evidence based—work for which she’s been asked to
testify before the US Department of Agriculture and the Canadian
Senate.  Dr. Aseem Malhotra is an NHS-trained consultant,
cardiologist, and visiting professor of evidence-based medicine at
the Bahiana School of Medicine and Public Health in Salvador,
Brazil. He is a founding member of Action on Sugar. In 2015, he
became the youngest member to be appointed to the board of trustees
of the UK health charity The King's Fund. He is a pioneer of the
lifestyle medicine movement in the UK and in 2018 was ranked by
software company Onalytica as the number one doctor in the world
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Full-length episodes of these interviews can be found here: Nina
Teicholz Dr. Aseem Malhotra