Dr Aseem Malhotra is a Consultant Interventional Cardiologist who has been the central catalyst in igniting the debate around the harms of excess sugar consumption in the United Kingdom. He has achieved this via writing commentaries in the BMJ, appearances on majors new channels including BBC, Sky News, ITV & Channel 4 and the regular columns he writes for the Guardian Newspaper about heart disease and other health topics – http://www.theguardian.com/profile/aseem-malhotra. He is the Science Director of the campaign group “Action On Sugar” and has been appointed as Consultant Clinical Associate tot the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges. Aseem was recently named in the London evening standard's top 10 "super smart set" in their 1000 most influential list. He has also made the Health Service Journal's top 50 BME outstanding contribution to health care list for the past two years in succession. Aseem has been arguably the most influential secondary care doctor in the UK on issues that effect population health. Thanks to his work it has now become government policy that AEDs will be introduced into all new schools. He is a keynote speaker at the Low Carb High Fat Summit in Cape Town between 19-22 February 2015. In this podcast, Liam West poses the questions that see Aseem take us through the evidence behind the effect of cholesterol, saturated fat and sugar on heart disease. Links to articles discussed in the podcast: Lancet burden of global diseases report http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(14)60460-8/abstract http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(14)61682-2/abstract NEJM – High fat Mediterranean diet versus low fat Mediterranean diet – impact on heart disease http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1200303?viewType=Print&viewClass=Print&activeTab=comments&page=3 EPIC Interact Study http://www.inter-act.eu/publications/publications---scientific-journals.html BMJ Article - Saturated Fat 2013 http://www.bmj.com/content/347/bmj.f6340 Sanja Basu & Robert Lustig – sugar consumption and availability worldwide http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0057873 Nutritional BMJ publications 12/2/15 – sugar industry bias http://www.bmj.com/company/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/sugar-invest.pdf http://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h780 http://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h231 http://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h215 http://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h219 http://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h220 Twitter handles: @BJSM_BMJ @DrAseemMalhotra Low Carb High Fat Hashtag - #LCHF

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