Scientific consensus contradicts this claim.

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What the evidence found 3 findings
Based on 13 sources:
PMC peer-reviewed View
Nature Medicine peer-reviewed View
Circulation peer-reviewed View
PMC peer-reviewed View
PubMed peer-reviewed View
Science Direct peer-reviewed View
Nature Medicine peer-reviewed View
PMC peer-reviewed View
British Journal of Nutrition peer-reviewed View
PMC/NCBI peer-reviewed View
PMC/NCBI peer-reviewed View
PubMed peer-reviewed View
ResearchGate peer-reviewed View
Based on 10 sources:
PubMed peer-reviewed View
MSN Health news View
PubMed peer-reviewed View
Dietary prevention of coronary heart disease: the Finnish Mental Hospital Study peer-reviewed View
Heart Attack Prevention - Finnish Mental Hospital Trial institutional View
Dietary saturated fat and heart disease: a narrative review peer-reviewed View
PLoS Medicine peer-reviewed View
Annals of Internal Medicine peer-reviewed View
Cochrane Review - Reduction in saturated fat intake for cardiovascular disease peer-reviewed View
Cochrane Review - Reduction in saturated fat intake for cardiovascular disease peer-reviewed View
Based on 11 sources:
PMC/NCBI peer-reviewed View
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine institutional View
New York Times news View
STAT News news View
PubMed peer-reviewed View
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition peer-reviewed View
PMC (PubMed Central) peer-reviewed View
Center for Responsive Politics/OpenSecrets.org federal lobbying disclosure database institutional
Taylor & Francis Online peer-reviewed View
Global Reporting Initiative institutional View
Wiley Online Library peer-reviewed View
What research hasn't answered 2 gaps
Sources 18 findings
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2020 Hooper argumentation
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World Cancer Research Fund argumentation
2017 BMJ argumentation
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2020 Hooper · Annals of Internal Medicine argumentation
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2019 tree-leaf argumentation
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