The dirty little secret of the diet-heart hypothesis

This entry is part 7 of 12 in the series Stephan Guyenet's "Whole Health Source"

The diet-heart hypothesis is the idea that saturated fat, and in some versions cholesterol, raises blood cholesterol and contributes to the risk of having a heart attack. To test this hypothesis, scientists have been studying the relationship between saturated fat consumption and heart attack risk for more than half a century. What have these studies found?

~ Stephan Guyenet from, The Dirty Little Secret of the Diet-Heart Hypothesis

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