Eating saturated fat regularly affects your LDL cholesterol levels and can raise your heart disease risk. There are simple ...

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The fats you consume play vital roles throughout your body, from providing energy and supporting cell structure to enabling hormone production and helping absorb essential nutrients. However, not all ...

Saturated fat is a type of fat that is solid at room temperature. Meat and dairy products are the main sources of saturated fat. Coconut and palm oils also contain it. A review from 2020 reinforces ...

For decades, saturated fat was considered unhealthy and eating it was thought to contribute to heart disease. More recently, experts have begun to question whether eating saturated fat is really as ...

Mainstream science says eating too much saturated fat raises cholesterol and the risk of heart disease, so why are some diet trends encouraging people to eat more of it? Advice to limit intake of ...

From myths about being 'skinny fat' to labelling all saturated fat as bad for health, experts debunk some outdated beliefs ...

While consuming saturated fats increases blood cholesterol, meta-analyses suggest this does not translate into increased risk of cardiovascular disease, say researchers. Dietary guidelines around the ...

A controversial editorial is making some bold claims about saturated fat. Recently published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, Aseem Malhotra, Rita Redberg and Pascal Meier, cardiologists ...

Marinka Steur received funding from Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit (MC_UU_00006/3) and was also supported by the British Heart Foundation for part of this work. She declares no conflict of ...