Cardiologist Says He Will ‘Rethink’ His Opposition To Saturated Fat

Filed under: Health — jimmy @ 7:53 am

One good interview deserves another!

In late August, I was privileged to conduct an interview with a cardiologist named Dr. William Davis who utilizes a rather unconventional approach for examining heart health by measuring the amount of plaque build-up in the arteries called a heart scan. It is cutting-edge technology that would be a more widely accepted way to manage heart health if there was money involved in it. This is the uphill battle that Dr. Davis is attempting to counteract with his “Heart Scan Blog” which I fell in love with after Dr. Davis wrote a blog post entitled “The Ornish Diet Made Me Fat”–I WAS HOOKED!

Not long after my interview with Dr. Davis, he approached me about returning the favor–doing an interview with me–because he was especially interested in learning more about why I support saturated fat consumption as part of a healthy lifestyle. It’s too important a subject to be swept under the rug and I was appreciative of the opportunity to articulate my argument to a man with an open mind willing to be convinced he may be wrong.

Before his interview with me, Dr. Davis contended that he has “had a hard time dismissing the ill-effects of saturated fat.”

“After all, we’ve all been taught–drilled–with the idea that saturated fats cause LDL cholesterol to go higher, cause arterial constriction, growth of atherosclerotic plaque, inflammation, even cancer,” Dr. Davis contended.

But…

“…there does indeed seem to be a growing sentiment that this long-held dogma may not be true,” he concluded following his interview with me.

Click here to read more about the interview and how it very well may have changed this cardiologist’s old-school thinking about saturated fat intake.