Dr Amir Khan

So what food production companies did then was make all these low fat foods and they took the fat out of things like yogurts and other foods.

But because they're not palatable, once the fat is taken out, they replace that taste with sugar and additives, which we now know are really bad for us.

So we replaced essentially a whole food, which was fat, with ultra processed foods.

Yeah.

They are healthy.

In balance.

In balance, yeah.

I think that's it.

And because they're whole foods, we're not just focusing on the fat content.

We're looking at it as a whole piece of food with so many other nutrients and micro, macro nutrients in.

So when people think butter, they just think, oh, God, you know, saturated fat.

But it's got loads of other beneficial things in there as well.

Right.

Yeah, and they don't fill you up at all.

No, they don't.

Because they don't contain anything useful.

Yeah.

So they will do that Q risk on you and they will decide whether you should be on statins or not.

So if your risk of having a heart attack or stroke over the next 10 years is more than 10% or 10% or more, they will offer you medication.

But there's also the lifestyle stuff.