Aseem Malhotra - Sugar, Advocacy or Activism?

Dr Aseem Malhotra is an Honorary Consultant Cardiologist at Frimley Park Hospital and founding member and cardiologist advisor to campaign group, Action on Sugar. He has been the central catalyst in igniting the debate around the harms of excess sugar consumption in the UK through commentaries in the BMJ and mainstream media.

[Nikkiiwang]

I’m so thankful there are doctors like you to teach the rest of us. I’ve been practicing emergency medicine in US for 18 yrs. I feel like I’ve committed malpractice all these years giving patients the wrong advice. Now I talk to every patient about LCHF. Here’s where I feel like I can actually make a difference in saving lives.

[Bmaechtel]

Very well spoken .... congratulations up the good work greetings form Mexico the country who sadly is number one in the consumption of sugary drinks) ignorance and poverty are the main causes for this

[felipearbustopotd]

13:30 it doesn't have to be in excess (for me) if I eat something that is ultra processed, I simply gain fat.

Glad to hear that carbs are not essential, try telling that to a Vegan or Vegetarian.

I recently had a well known plant based burger, 88% of the kcals came from fat... in particular rapeseed oil. Very expensive, full of ultra processed ingredients... 18 in total.and as nourishing as a piece of cardboard.

What was most shocking was the 1st ingredient....water.

So they can mix water with rapeseed oil and 16 other ingredients and call it food.

If we are FORCED to go plant based, our obesity isn't going to go away.


24:40 follow the money.

Thank you for uploading and sharing.

[shanpadarath]

Thanks for such a concise presentation on sugar. Though I would like to add that the tobacco industry did target sugar with introduction of menthol into their cigarettes to make them palatable. Furthermore, protagonists or role models from television programs were shown to smoke and yet remain very healthy.

[Angkhoo]

It IS possible to stop chilren from eating junk foodParents must SYOP buying these for them. At PTA meetings, parents must halt all sales of junk food. It can be done if parents realise the damage it is doing to their child's health. Pack lunches will be a good idea and do not give their kids pocket money without monitoring what they buy with it. Yes, all hospitals throughout the world have these small shops that sell magazines, snacks and newspapers plus a plethora of soft drinks and a variety of sweets, chocolates and candies. We have them in every hospitals in Malaysia too. At the National Heart Inst of Malaysia, one can buy these same stuff. Patients who can walk to these shops and canteens eat very unhealthy foods and top it down with sugary juices and beverages. without batting an eyelid. If they can't fo themselves, visitors are more than willing to oblige. No body stops them. If only security guards are given the authority to apprehend these patients,

[kell_checks_in]

And yet again talking about fatness when the majority of people with metabolic syndrome are thin people...

[backfru]

Obesity is excess calories, nothing more
This is easily demonstrated by overfeeding studies, and the weird accounts of people eating primarily ice cream/twinkies/mcdonalds etc but reduced calories.. and SURPRISE!
They lose weight

Unless these people still think carbs make you fat?