Dr Aseem Malhotra is a star cardiologist of the UK who has been getting a lot of attention these days. In late April, he wrote an article in Men’s Health magazine titled, “The Truth About Fat and Sugar is Finally Explained”, that has been reproduced in The Daily Mail and is being widely discussed. He writes: “This morning, as I do most days, I breakfasted on a three-egg omelette cooked in coconut oil, with a whole milk coffee. I enjoyed a wedge of full fat cheese with my lunch, poured a liberal dose of olive oil on my evening salad and snacked on nuts throughout the day. In short, I ingested a fair amount of fat and, as a cardiologist who has treated thousands of people with heart disease, this may seem a particularly peculiar way to behave. Fat, after all, furs up our arteries and piles on the pounds—or at least that’s what prevailing medical and dietary advice has had us believe. As a result, most of us have spent years eschewing full fat foods for their ‘low fat’ equivalents, in the hope it will leave us fitter and healthier. Yet I’m now convinced we have instead been doing untold damage: far from being the best thing for health or weight loss, a low fat diet is the opposite. In fact, I would go so far as to say the change in dietary advice in 1977 to restrict the amount of fat we were eating helped to fuel the obesity epidemic unfolding today.” 
Dr Malhotra goes on to write about a series of recent research papers and ideas from global experts that pin the blame on refined carbohydrates and sugar that are responsible for heart disease, diabetes, obesity, cancer, and many maladies. In Sweden, up to 23% of the population is embracing a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet. The obesity rates are falling in Sweden. As Dr Andreas Eenfeldt, who runs Sweden’s most popular health blog, Diet Doctor, says: “You don’t get fat from eating fatty foods just as you don’t turn green from eating green vegetables.”
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