Real food saturated fat is not subsidized…Industrial seed oils are subsidized. “Saturated fat intake was not associated with all -cause mortality, CVD mortality, total CHD, ischemic stroke, or type 2 diabetes.
The Women’s Health Initiative is one of the largest randomized controlled diet trials ever performed using 48,835 post-menopausal women, with a mean follow-up period of 8.1 years, randomized to either a standard western diet or a low-fat, calorie-reduced diet with increased exercise.
The authors had postulated that a low-fat, calorie-reduced diet with increased exercise would reduce cardiovascular disease. The intervention achieved an 8.2% energy decrease in total fat intake and a 2.9% energy decrease in the saturated fat intake but did not reduce the risk of CHD or stroke.
The reduction in dietary fat and total daily calories (361 calories/day reduction) failed to produce any significant weight loss over the duration of the study, rejected the hypothesis that the low-fat diet is either beneficial for cardiovascular disease or weight loss.
Saturated fat is part of our ancestral diet. “Diets with cheese and meat as primary sources of Saturated Fatty Acids cause higher HDL cholesterol and apo A-1 and, therefore, appear to be less atherogenic than is a low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet.”