Relentless Inquiry

Via 's link to the Heart Healer, an interview with a physician who helped reduce coronary mortality by 82% in a rural area of Finland:

Would deaths have dropped even more if you'd also had a weight-loss programme?
Coronary heart disease is the biggest global killer today. The greatest risk factor is high blood pressure, and that has nothing to do with obesity. Cholesterol, the second biggest risk factor, is slightly related to obesity. Smoking, the third-biggest contributor, has nothing to do with obesity. Obesity is a sign that diets are going wrong, and not itself a cause of ill health. Weight-reduction programmes that aim just to lose weight without changing diets are a waste of time.

Ha! And again I say 'ha!' Especially in the direction of several previous doctors, who would rather fixate on weight-reduction to the exclusion of anything short of broken limbs.