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In a big 1960s study, people ate less saturated fat to lower their cholesterol, but they didn’t have fewer heart attacks or die less often — and nobody even heard about these results for 40 years.
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A short history of saturated fat: the making and unmaking of a scientific consensus
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2023 Feb 1This study says that a big old experiment found that lowering cholesterol by eating less saturated fat didn’t help people live longer or have fewer heart attacks — but nobody published those results for 40 years. That’s exactly what the claim says.
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