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One study that tried to get people to eat only 10% saturated fat actually saw more people die than in the group that ate more fat.

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Evidence from randomised controlled trials did not support the introduction of dietary fat guidelines in 1977 and 1983: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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2015

This study looked at all the major old experiments on low-fat diets and found no evidence that eating very little saturated fat made people die more often — in fact, it showed no difference in deaths at all.

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Evidence from randomised controlled trials did not support the introduction of dietary fat guidelines in 1977 and 1983: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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DOI: 10.1136/openhrt-2014-000196

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