NEW STUDY ON SATURATED FAT AND HEART DISEASE LINK

It’s a long-held belief that saturated fat (the type found in butter, meat, and cheese) is to blame for an increased risk of heart disease and other cardiac events. A new analysis by international scientists recently published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, however, indicates that this may not actually be the case. The study suggests that other dietary factors may hold more of the blame than saturated fats when it comes to causing heart attack and stroke. The belief that saturated fat increases the risk for heart disease is grounded in the fact that saturated fat contains high levels of LDL cholesterol, the kind of cholesterol that increases an individual’s risk of heart attack. This new study, however, claims that the kind of LDL [ ] The post NEW STUDY ON SATURATED FAT AND HEART DISEASE LINK appeared first on Jeremy E. Korman, M.D., F.A.C.S..
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