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Two rows – one about carbs, one about fat

Just to follow up from last week's note - both Dr Briffa and I have been in touch with the speaker from the ION conference, Dr Wen Leong, and she has NOT been able to explain HOW dietary fat can turn into cholesterol - let alone that it does. Her specific claim was that eating saturated fat raises LDL - good luck explaining how that can actually happen. While answering us to say that she couldn't ...

 

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