Ban Butter To Save Thousands Of Lives, Says Heart Surgeon

Daily Mail (UK) ^ | January 18th 2010

[Steelfish]

Ban Butter To Save Thousands Of Lives, Says Heart Surgeon By SEAN POULTER 18th January 2010

Shyam Kolvekar is a leading heart surgeon [Pic in URL]

Butter should be banned to protect the nation's health, according to a leading heart surgeon. Shyam Kolvekar says only radical action can save growing numbers of young adults from heart attacks and clogged arteries.

Warning of the dangers of other foods high in saturated fat, he advises people to eat less red meat, take low-fat milk and switch to olive and sunflower oil. Saturated fat is blamed for a third of the 200,000 premature deaths from heart disease a year.

Adults are eating an average of 800 grams of it a month - 20 per cent more than the recommended limit. Hitting the recommended level could save 3,500 lives a year. Mr Kolvekar, a consultant at University College London Hospitals, said: 'By banning butter and replacing it with a healthy spread the average daily sat-fat intake would be reduced by eight grams.

[manc]

prefer marge anyway

[darkangel82]

Spew.
I think we should ban liberals instead.

[31R1O]

They can have my butter when they pry it from my cold dead hands.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Bump for tonight.

[SandRat]

[bboop]

Take on the Norwegians and you will be SO SORRY.

[PLD]

My exact thoughts...

[Mr. Lucky]

Not me. I’m gonna die healthy.

[paulycy]

"They can have my butter when they pry it from my cold dead hands popcorn."

[airborne]

Guess I’ll just have to cook my eggs in bacon fat then!

;^)

[Buckeye McFrog]

if he lived in the US, Obama might appoint him as a Czar and there is a chance he could actually make this happen.

[PLD]

Best idea I have heard all day..

[tet68]

My god, next thing you know they’ll want to
ban BACON!!!

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

Soon coming to a Congress and Senate near you!

[Elpasser]

Why bother with food bans?

Why doesn’t the government just tell people what they are allowed to eat? And how much. And when...

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Sweet cream, unsalted for me please! I tried Smart Balance Light, and it wasn’t bad. But when I put a pat on my grits, it didn’t eggs ackley melt. Strange stuff.

[scoobysnak71]

WHAT? That would be like ...

BANNING BACON!

[SonOfDarkSkies]

I eat butter (and eggs) but because I also do many hours of cardio each week (spin class and bike outdoors) it doesn't have any effect on my cholesterol.

I asked my doc about it and he said that the problem with such foods in not so much the foods as the combination of such foods with a sedentary lifestyle.

[HerrBlucher]

I love butter too, and lots of it on popcorn. I also love olive oil. Recently, just for a change, I put olive oil on the popcorn. Adios butter!