Saturated fats do not clog the arteries

The belief that saturated fats clog up the arteries, and so cause coronary heart disease (CHD), is just “plain wrong”, contend experts in an editorial published online in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. It’s time to shift the focus away from lowering blood fats and cutting out dietary saturated fat, to instead emphasising the importance of eating “real food”, taking a daily walk and minimising stress to stave off heart disease, they insist. Coronary artery heart disease is a chronic inflammatory condition that responds to a Mediterranean-style diet rich in the anti-inflammatory compounds found in nuts, extra virgin olive…