A diet rich in oily fish, vegetables and oil can help stave off coronary heart disease, a group of cardiologists claimed Cathal McNaughton/Press AssociationPeople who want to stave off heart disease should eat “real food” and take a brisk 22-minute daily walk rather than worrying about cutting saturated fats from their diet, experts have urged. Writing in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, a group of doctors say that the belief that saturated fats clog the arteries and cause coronary heart disease is “plain wrong”. However, they have been condemned by other medics, who accuse their editorial of being “simplistic”, “muddled” and “misleading”. Critics said that the phrase “real food” was meaningless and akin to the dietary fad for “clean eating”. The cardiologists, led by Aseem Malhotra, of Lister Hospital, Stevenage, wrote that coronary artery heart disease was a chronic inflammatory condition that responded to a Mediterranean-style diet…

Source: The Times April 26, 2017 00:22 UTC