Saturated fat is often vilified but within the context of an otherwise healthy diet it isn’t likely to be a major risk for mortality.
Advice to reduce saturated fat ignores that several types of saturated fatty acids are beneficial to health.
Substitution studies are used to support the idea that saturated fat is bad…but do they actually show this?
Does saturated fat increase the risk of cardiovascular or all-cause mortality? What do we know from randomised controlled trials?
All About Saturated Fat Part 1: What do we know about saturated fat, mortality, and heart disease from meta-analyses of the observational evidence?
Dr Cliff Harvey on the Nourish Balance Thrive podcast with Chris Kelly