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A big study in the 1960s tried to see if eating less saturated fat (like butter and fatty meat) would help people have fewer heart attacks. It lowered cholesterol, but people didn’t live longer or have fewer heart attacks—and no one told anyone 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 old experiments tried lowering cholesterol by cutting saturated fat, but didn’t find fewer heart attacks — and the results were hidden for years. That’s exactly what the claim says.
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