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.

[@Nikkiiwang1]

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.

[@Bmaechtel21]

Very well spoken .... congratulations .....keep 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

[@shanpadarath2931]

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.

[@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.

[@Angkhoo1]

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,

[@henrybird26]

Stay home!

[@kell_checks_in]

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

[@BritGirlJay]

Yes quite right but if you put this on the back of keeping only thinner people healthy it wouldn't be picked up by media (as in 'you're thin so you MUST be healthy, so this sugar thing must be quackery'). If you win the war against sugar, even piggy-backed soley on obesity, then everyone, both fat and thin will benefit longterm.

[@andrewmartin9549]

did you actually follow this video form beginning to end? I think not

[@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?

[@kell_checks_in]

presjo What "overfeeding" studies. Neither Keys nor Drunkard succeeded in turning genetically thin people into fat people and no one anywhere can turn genetically fat people into thin people. If your theory is correct, why are the majority of people with metabolic syndrome thin people?

[@BritGirlJay]

I eat keto/low carb (and have done for now 2 years) I also eat way MORE calories now than I ever did - and lost weight, improved bloods (as per doctor, I don't do it myself) and better energy. I eat proper food now, no processed junk, lots of veg, (my carb source is veg) meat and fat. I eat no wheat products either.

[@ldean8360]

Dr. Malhotra is not talking about obesity. He's talking about metabolic dysfunction. Some foods enhance health, some degrade it, some are neutral.
Sugar degrades health, starting with the first thing it touches - your teeth. Next it nourishes harmful bacteria in your stomach. Then it is broken into two chemicals, one of which spikes your insulin and the other that gives you fatty liver, and both of them form harmful molecules when they touch proteins in your body (AGEs).
You seriously don't see the benefit to cutting sugar consumption?

[@LTPottenger]

That's cute. Coca cola came out with the calories in calories out bs, it's nonsense and propaganda.