Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Ban Butter To Save Our Hearts, Says Doctor

Adjusting your diet by replacing butter with a healthy spread or margarine
is a very simple thing to do Photo: CORBIS


From The Telegraph:

Butter should be banned in a bid to save thousands from heart disease, a leading heart surgeon claims.

Dr Shyam Kolvekar said that he is "increasingly concerned" about the nation's eating habits as he is seeing patients as young as 30 in need of heart bypass surgery due to a diet "overloaded" with saturated fat.

According to a national diet survey, nine out of 10 of children, 88 per cent of men and 83 per cent of women in Britain eat too much saturated fat, consuming a fifth too much each day.

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