Could the diets and food choices often advertised as “heart healthy” actually cause heart disease and other health problems?
Yes. And the science is actually quite straightforward, having been sorted out in detail over the past 30 years. All the tragic and misguided dietary advice surrounding heart health, early clinical studies from the 1950s and 1960s when the design of clinical studies was crude and unreliable, coupled with the ambitions of people who were absolutely convinced that fat intake caused heart disease, led us on a 50-year long goose chase. Fat is not the problem, never was. And the evidence never showed that it was. “Foods” added just a moment ago, speaking anthropologically, i.e., wheat and grains, and now sugars, are the cause. And there are concrete reasons to explain why this happens….