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Eating a lot of saturated fat makes your bad cholesterol go up.

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Reducing saturated fat intake lowers LDL-C but increases Lp(a) levels in African Americans: the GET-READI feeding trial

Randomized Controlled Trial
Human
2023 Sep

When people ate less saturated fat (like butter and fatty meats), their 'bad' cholesterol (LDL) went down — which means eating more saturated fat likely makes it go up, just like the claim says.

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Effect of milk fat on LDL cholesterol and other cardiovascular risk markers in healthy humans: the INNOVALAIT project

Randomized Controlled Trial
Human
2020 Feb

Even though people ate lots of saturated fat from milk, their bad cholesterol (LDL) didn’t go up compared to when they ate plant-based fats—so this study says saturated fat doesn’t always raise bad cholesterol like we thought.

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