From: http://www.biznews.c...diet-dangerous/ Rossouw is one of your most vocal critics, who is wedded to the diet/heart disease hypothesis, is a fan of statins (which you call the “ single most ineffective drugs ever invented”), cites lots of research, including his own, (in the debate and elsewhere) and clearly believes your diet is potentially harmful. Does he have any points? This is a man who has spent $700million of American taxpayers’ money in a clinical trial that lasted eight years, and proved that cutting fat from the diet had absolutely no beneficial effect whatsoever on the health of post-menopausal women. In fact, I was the first to show and publish in the SAMJ (November 2013), that his own data showed that women with established heart disease, who reduced their fat intake, were more likely to suffer subsequent heart attacks, than women with heart disease who continued to eat their conventional higher-fat diet. He showed the same for patients with diabetes. Neither he nor anyone else was brave enough to own up to these inconvenient findings. When you spend that magnitude of other peoples’ money, and disprove your own deeply held dogmas, you have to say: I was wrong. Reducing the fat in your diet may well make you worse. Instead, he continues to say the opposite. That, unfortunately, is not science. It is religion. Eina!! I wonder what Rossouw junior is going to have to say about this...? Edit: And at the end of the article: *Prof Jacques Rossouw has been invited to respond Be interesting if he does respond...
