Published in the January 13, 2010 issue of The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition is a huge bombshell in the “saturated fat is bad” campaign that has plagued our country for the past several decades called “Meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies evaluating the association of saturated fat with cardiovascular disease” by lead researcher Dr. Ronald M. Krauss from Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute. He took the premise of all those organizations I listed above and the work of Ancel Keys that reducing saturated fat in the diet would improve cardiovascular health and looked at 21 epidemiological studies that referenced saturated fat and heart disease. The studies ranged from 5-23 years in length and followed 347,747 study participants.
Dr. Krauss, along with Dr. Frank B. Hu and Dr. Patty W. Siri-Tarino, concluded that“intake of saturated fat was not associated with an increased risk of CHD, stroke, or CVD.” Did you catch that? Let me say it again. Eating saturated fat which has been deemed off limits for the past 50 years is NOT ASSOCIATED WITH AN INCREASED RISK of getting a heart attack, stroke or cardiovascular disease.
http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/abstract/ajcn.2009.27725v1?papetoc