The word “fat” used to be the enemy. Today, the conversation has shifted from how much fat we eat to the type of fat we ...

For more than half a century, Americans have been urged to shy away from saturated fats, found mainly in animal products. We have been told to cook with canola oil instead of butter, select skim ...

It’s official: The food pyramid is back, baby. Only it’s been flipped upside down, and beef, not bread, is king. That’s right: On January 7, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr ...

Decades-old fears of heart risks from eating saturated fats appeared to have been overblown for many individuals, according to a meta-analysis of randomized trials. Across 17 studies, reduced ...

The idea of saturated fats' negative impact on cardiovascular health was a 1950s introduction, “based on weak science”. A review of diet-heart hypothesis going back to the late 1950s has claimed ...

Next to cholesterol, the main dietary demon is saturated fat. For several decades, the American public has been warned that sat-fat will clog coronary arteries and lead to heart attacks. Foods that ...