If you swap out butter or oil for sugary white bread or pastries, it won’t lower your risk of heart disease—and might even raise it if you’re prone to blood sugar problems.

If you swap out fats in your diet—like butter or oil—for sugary white bread, pasta, or pastries, it won’t lower your risk of heart disease, and it might even make it worse if you’re prone to blood sugar problems.

If you swap out foods like butter and cheese for things like white bread and sugary snacks, it might raise your blood sugar and fat levels after meals, which could make your heart more likely to get sick.

If you swap out foods like butter and cheese for sugary snacks and white bread, it might make your heart health worse by raising bad fats in your blood, lowering good cholesterol, and making your body less sensitive to insulin—which could raise your chance of having a heart attack.

Eating too many sugary, processed carbs and not enough good fats might make your body less responsive to insulin and mess up your cholesterol levels, which could raise your chance of heart disease—especially if you're older, female, don't move much, or are overweight.

Switching from foods high in saturated fat (like butter) to foods full of sugar and white bread doesn’t make your heart any safer — studies show it doesn’t help prevent heart disease.