Cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, cancer and respiratory disease kill 35 million per year globally. In 2012, the UN advocated a new health goal of reducing avoidable deaths from non-communicable diseases by 25 per cent by 2025. It identified tobacco, alcohol and poor diet as central risk factors.
Read more… Stop counting calories and count number of sugar teaspoons instead
I am delighted to share that this week I was named in the “Debrett’s 500 most influential people in Britain” featured in the Sunday Times.
Read more… Dr Malhotra featured in Debrett’s 500 most influential people in Britain
Last week I appeared on BBC Breakfast news to discuss calls from the UK’s Academy of Medical Sciences for more preventative medicines. In effect more healthy people to be taking medications to prevent the onset of disease. I have no issue with this as a concept but one of the reasons our current healthcare system is close to breaking point is that we have an overmedicated population with a total lack of transparency in the prescription of drugs. Often benefits are grossly exaggerated and side effects underplayed. If I was going to take a pill every day for many years I would want to know what is my actual benefit and what are/how common are the side effects that may interfere with my quality of life?
It’s patients who lose out if doctors and professional journals stop asking the right questions
Read more… How too much medicine can kill you
Dr Aseem Malhotra reveals why you need to let fat be your medicine.
Read more… The truth about fat and sugar is finally explained
It’s the slippery argument that’s divided researchers for decades – is butter or margarine better for our health? But just when we thought we had the answer – that saturated fats like those found in butter aren’t bad for us as previously thought – another study comes along to suggest the opposite. Here we try to unpick the debate.
Major US research suggests a fizzy drink a day is enough to raise the risk of heart attacks by one third, while significantly raising the chance of type two diabetes and stroke.
Read more… One can of fizzy drink daily ‘can increase heart attack risk by a third’
The majority of hospitals have made no plans to factor in Jeremy Hunt’s major changes to the NHS which will see seven day care and huge changes to Junior Doctor conditions.
Read more… Most hospitals aren’t ready for Jeremy Hunt’s disastrous NHS reforms for Junior Doctors
In an editorial, a group of doctors call for “shared decision making” with patients about whether or not to take statins.
Read more… ‘Patients views should be put first when it comes to statins’
