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If you're overweight, eating more saturated fat from dairy — like cheese or butter — for a month probably won't hurt your blood sugar control or cholesterol levels compared to eating less of it.

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Diets high in protein or saturated fat do not affect insulin sensitivity or plasma concentrations of lipids and lipoproteins in overweight and obese adults.

Randomized Controlled Trial
Human
2014 Nov

The study looked at whether eating more saturated fat for a month affects health markers in overweight people, and found no negative effects—just like the claim says.

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Diets high in protein or saturated fat do not affect insulin sensitivity or plasma concentrations of lipids and lipoproteins in overweight and obese adults.

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DOI: 10.3945/jn.114.197624

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If you're overweight or obese and eat the same number of calories, boosting protein or saturated fat from dairy for a month doesn't seem to hurt your blood sugar control or cholesterol levels.

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When overweight or obese people eat fewer calories and either eat a little dairy or a lot of dairy, they lose about the same amount of weight and belly fat—dairy doesn’t help them lose more.

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If you swap out a small part of the fatty foods you eat—like butter or cheese—with healthier fats like olive oil or avocado for six weeks, it won’t hurt your body’s ability to manage blood sugar.

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Eating more dairy while dieting didn’t make bad cholesterol go up or good cholesterol go down—it didn’t hurt heart health markers at all.

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Eating saturated fat doesn’t always make you more likely to get heart disease or diabetes—it depends on what foods you’re getting it from and what you’re eating instead.

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