Eating healthier fats could reduce heart disease deaths worldwide

I bet your hospital has not had their nutritionist create diet protocols for stroke in and out of the hospital based upon the latest research. Ask when the diet protocol was last updated.
Do NOT do anything about this on your own, you know how dangerous eating is without your doctors prescription.
Even this seems to not account for the latest news on saturated fats, and it is from the American Heart Association. When you can't trust the American Heart Association to know what they are talking about you've lost the medical world as a professional source of information.

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http://www.mdlinx.com/internal-medicine/top-medical-news/article/2016/02/10/1
Eating healthier fats could save more than a million people internationally from dying from heart disease, and the types of diet changes needed differ greatly between countries, according to new research in Journal of the American Heart Association. Eating healthier fats could save more than a million people worldwide from dying from heart disease each year. Refined carbohydrates and saturated fats should be replaced with heart–protective vegetable oils. While estimated deaths related to consumption of trans fats is on the decline in high–income countries, it is a growing problem worldwide because of the use of inexpensive partially–hydrogenated cooking fats in lower–income countries. To estimate the number of annual deaths related to various patterns of fat consumption, researchers used diet and food availability information from 186 countries, and research from previous longitudinal studies– which study people over long periods of time – on how eating specific fats influences heart disease risk. Using 2010 data, they estimate worldwide:

• 711,800 heart disease deaths worldwide were estimated to be due to eating too little healthy omega–6 polyunsaturated fats, such as healthy vegetable oils, as a replacement for both saturated fats and refined carbohydrates. That accounted for 10.3 percent of total global heart disease deaths. In comparison, only about 1/3 of this – 250,900 heart disease deaths – resulted from excess consumption of saturated fats instead of healthier vegetable oils; accounting for 3.6 percent of global heart disease deaths. Saturated fats are found in meat, cheeses and –fat dairy products, as well as palm and coconut oils. The authors suggest that the difference is due to the additional benefits of increasing omega–6 polyunsaturated fats as a replacement for carbohydrates.
• In addition, 537,200 deaths, which represent 7.7 percent of global heart disease deaths – resulted from excess consumption of trans fats, such as those in processed, baked, and fried goods as well as cooking fats used in certain countries.

Comparing 1990 to 2010, the investigators found that the proportion of heart disease deaths due to insufficient omega–6 polyunsaturated fat declined 9 percent and that due to high saturated fats declined by 21 percent. In contrast, deaths due to high consumption of trans fats rose 4 percent.