Dr. Bret Scher: "
Want a healthier heart? Eat a steak"
I'm a cardiologist — and I encourage patients to eat red meat.
This
advice defies conventional wisdom. For decades, nutritionists and
physicians have urged people to limit consumption of red meat and other
fatty foods, which were thought to cause heart disease.
But
new studies debunk this conventional wisdom. Indeed, it now looks like
low-quality carbohydrates -- not saturated fats -- are driving America's
heart disease epidemic. It's time to stop demonizing steak...