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    Fats And Figures: Re-Examining Saturated Fat And What's Really Good For Your Heart
    Fats And Figures: Re-Examining Saturated Fat And What's Really Good For Your Heart
    Fats And Figures: Re-Examining Saturated Fat And What's Really Good For Your Heart
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    Fats And Figures: Re-Examining Saturated Fat And What's Really Good For Your Heart

    By Dr C. Edward Pitt

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    Have doctors been deceiving us for decades?

    If you believe the plethora of memes doing the rounds on social media, medical science has got it wrong. Generations of patients have been told that saturated fat was the enemy, the villain that caused heart disease and stroke. But according to every diet guru and self-titled nutrition expert, it’s not saturated fat at all, but sugar and inflammation that are to blame for the modern plague of atherosclerosis.

    In this min-eBook, Dr C. Edward Pitt cuts through the spruiking to examine the science. What separates memes that are more about sales than science? What does the evidence show about saturated fats, sugar and inflammation? What’s the best way to reduce our chances of heart attacks and strokes? And just what is poly-unsaturated fat anyway?

    This short, easy-to-read analysis of the evidence provides a starting point to help every health consumer navigate through the competing myths and memes swirling through social media, and helps to clarify what really is good for your heart.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDr C. Edward Pitt
    Release dateJan 28, 2015
    ISBN9781311255570
    Fats And Figures: Re-Examining Saturated Fat And What's Really Good For Your Heart
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    Dr C. Edward Pitt

    Dr C. Edward Pitt MBBS FRACGP is a full time GP* and spare-time writer. He lives and works in the northern suburbs of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. He has been studying and working in the medical profession since 1992. He spent a number of years in hospital paediatrics before getting sick of shift-work and moving into general practice. Since attaining his GP Fellowship in 2005, he has gained experience in many and varied areas of medicine including Skin Cancer Medicine, Cosmetic Medicine, Aged Care, and Sexual Health & Family Planning. He acts as an independent medico-legal expert in the field of general practice, and serves in executive positions on a number of national and state level boards for the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. His written work has been broadly published in a number of different spheres. In the early 2000’s, he was a regular writer for the national Christian magazine, “Alive”. He published his first book in 2009, “Stress Out”, now in its second edition. In 2013, he published "Hold That Thought: Reappraising The Work of Dr Caroline Leaf", and in 2015, he published "Fats and Figures", a short book on heart health. In early 2016 his article, "Cutting through the Paleo hype: The evidence for the Palaeolithic diet” was published by the peer reviewed medical journal Australian Family Physician. He is a husband, father to two rambunctious boys, coffee connoisseur, amateur actor and a terrible dancer. Whatever time he has left, he usually wastes it on Facebook or Angry Birds! (* GP is short for General Practitioner, also known as a Family Physician in some parts of the world)

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      Fats And Figures - Dr C. Edward Pitt

      FATS AND FIGURES

      Re-examining saturated fat and what's really good for your heart

      Dr C. Edward Pitt MBBS FRACGP

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      FATS AND FIGURES - Re-examining saturated fat and what's really good for your heart

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      Copyright © 2015 Dr C. Edward Pitt/Pitt Medical Trust

      All rights reserved

      No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without the prior permission of the author. Requests for permission should be directed to pittmedical@gmail.com, or in writing to Pitt Medical Trust, PO Box 33, North Lakes Q 4509 Australia

      Author: Dr C. Edward Pitt

      Edition: 1st / Smashwords Edition

      Published by Pitt Medical Trust at Smashwords

      The information contained in this book is general in nature. It does not constitute individual medical advice. Any information contained in this book should be discussed with the reader’s treating physician before implementation as part of the reader’s individual medical care, and any use of the information contained in this book is at the user’s discretion. The author/publisher specifically disclaim any and all liability that may arise either directly or indirectly from the use of, or application of information from, or the interpretation of information from, this work.

      Table of contents

      Chapter 1 - By way of introduction

      Chapter 2 - Anatomy of a medical meme

      Chapter 3 - Fast facts on fats

      Chapter 4 - Inflammation

      Chapter 5 - The evidence

      Chapter 6 - The final word

      References

      Acknowledgements

      About the author

      CHAPTER 1

      By Way Of Introduction

      A Facebook friend forwarded me an article a few weeks back and asked for my humble medical opinion.

      The article was entitled, World Renowned Heart Surgeon Speaks Out On What Really Causes Heart Disease. It was written by a man who said he was a heart surgeon, and who claimed to be coming clean on the real reason why our world has an epidemic of obesity and heart disease despite the low fat advice of the medical profession.

      I started my response, thinking it would just be a brief reply on Facebook. It wasn't long before I realised that I was going to run out of room trying to explain all of the important

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