Saturated Fat Finally Vindicated in Long Buried Study

By Dr. Mercola In all likelihood your doctor and nearly every public health authority has told you to stay away from saturated fats, warning you it will raise your LDL cholesterol and clog your arteries, putting you at increased risk for heart disease. The 2015 USDA dietary guidelines also still advise limiting saturated fats to a maximum of 10 percent of your daily calories, warning of similar dangers. Such recommendations are in fact based on an unproven hypothesis, and a large number of studies that have reexamined the theory have shown that saturated fat do not increase your risk of heart disease. Interestingly, the latest study to emerge showing conventional wisdom on saturated fat has been completely wrong was buried, and is actually four decades old. One of the original researchers was Ancel Keys—the man who initially proposed the link between saturated fat and heart disease—and it’s believed he was largely responsible for suppressing and not disclosing this damning study, as it doesn’t support his original hypothesis.