Eating more saturated fat from butter, meat, or cheese doesn’t clearly make people more likely to die early or get heart disease or diabetes, but the studies aren’t perfect, so we can’t be totally sure.

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Intake of saturated and trans unsaturated fatty acids and risk of all cause mortality, cardiovascular disease, and type 2 diabetes: systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies

Systematic Review With Meta-Analysis

Human

2015 Aug 11

This study looked at whether eating saturated fat (like butter and cheese) makes people more likely to die or get heart disease or diabetes, and found no clear link — just like the claim says. But the scientists warn the data isn’t super reliable because of how it was measured.

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Intake of saturated and trans unsaturated fatty acids and risk of all cause mortality, cardiovascular disease, and type 2 diabetes: systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies

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DOI: 10.1136/bmj.h3978

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