For the best health, about a quarter of your fat intake should come from saturated fats, most from healthy monounsaturated fats like olive oil, and around 15% from fresh polyunsaturated fats like those in nuts and fish.

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Associations of Dietary Fat Intake With Mortality From All Causes, Cardiovascular Disease, and Cancer: A Prospective Study

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2021

The study found that eating more saturated fat was linked to higher risk of death, while more polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fats were linked to lower risk. This goes against the claim that a diet with 25% of fat as saturated fat is healthy.

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If you swap out a little bit of butter and fatty meats for healthier fats like nuts and fish oil, you’re less likely to have a heart attack or die from heart disease — it’s not about eating less fat, but choosing better kinds of fat.

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People who eat more olive oil, nuts, and fish instead of butter and fatty meats have lower chances of having unhealthy cholesterol levels.

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