Eating more saturated fat — like in butter or red meat — doesn't appear to raise the chance of dying from heart disease, based on long-term studies of nearly 90,000 people.

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Evidence from prospective cohort studies does not support current dietary fat guidelines: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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2017 Dec

This study looked at thousands of people over many years and found that eating more saturated fat didn’t make them more likely to die from heart disease, so the claim that it’s not linked is backed up by the data.

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Evidence from prospective cohort studies does not support current dietary fat guidelines: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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DOI: 10.1136/bjsports-2016-096550

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