Eating foods high in saturated fat doesn't seem to make you more likely to have a heart attack or die sooner, according to a review of many studies.

If you eat less of the kind of fat found in butter and red meat, you're less likely to have heart problems like heart attacks or strokes.

You can't judge if a food is healthy just by how much saturated fat it has — what else is in the food and how it's structured matters just as much.

Eating more saturated fats might raise your risk of dying from cancer by 10%, but it doesn’t seem to affect your risk of dying from heart disease or any other cause—so maybe it harms you in a different way, not by hurting your heart.

Eating more saturated fat, like in butter or cheese, is linked to higher levels of bad cholesterol in people eating strictly controlled diets.

For people who already have heart disease, eating foods high in saturated fats—like butter or red meat—doesn’t seem to make their chances of having a heart attack or dying any higher or lower.