Just because sugar is bad doesn't mean eating lots of fat is safe.

Eating foods with saturated fat, like butter or meat, doesn't seem to raise your risk of heart disease or dying from it, based on the studies reviewed.

Even when researchers accounted for how many total calories people ate or how much other fats they consumed, the link between saturated fat and heart disease still didn’t show up.

Eating foods high in saturated fat, like butter and red meat, doesn't appear to raise your risk of heart attacks, strokes, or other heart problems, according to a big review of long-term studies on thousands of people.

Eating more total saturated fat — like butter or cheese — doesn’t seem to raise the risk of high blood pressure, diabetes, or high cholesterol in this group of Italians, which goes against what many health guidelines say.

Eating more saturated fat from meat, butter, or cheese doesn’t clearly make people more likely to die early or get heart disease or diabetes, but the science isn’t strong enough to be sure.