You can't judge if a food is healthy just by how much saturated fat it has — what else is in the food and how it's structured matters just as much.

Eating foods high in saturated fat doesn't seem to make you more likely to have a heart attack or die sooner, according to a review of many studies.

Eating more saturated fat, like in butter or cheese, is linked to higher levels of bad cholesterol in people eating strictly controlled diets.

Eating more saturated fats might raise your risk of dying from cancer by 10%, but it doesn’t seem to affect your risk of dying from heart disease or any other cause—so maybe it harms you in a different way, not by hurting your heart.

If you eat less of the kind of fat found in butter and red meat, you're less likely to have heart problems like heart attacks or strokes.

Focusing on cutting butter and red meat may help lower cholesterol more than just removing fried foods with trans fats.