Saturated fats: current evidence does not clearly support cardiovascular guidelines that encourage high consumption of polyunsaturated fatty acids and low consumption of total saturated fats

Still, it's probably comforting to know that countries where people eat more cheese, for example, have less heart disease than in the U.S. In the French paradox, people have high saturated fat diets, and drink wine regularly, but seem to have less heart disease. So something seems to be amiss with the saturated-fat-causes-heart-disease theory, but just what's going on is still a mystery. Diet and lifestyle do play a role in heart disease risk, but we may still have some work to do to really nail down the causes of that risk. The great fat debate is revving up again. What's greasing the wheels is some recent research that shows that diets high in saturated fat are not associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, stroke, and all-cause mortality. It's a meta-analysis that pools the results of many studies. The news about saturated fat has been accumulating. Last year, the authors of another meta-analysis from Cambridge University in England included over 650,000 participants, in both observational studies and randomized controlled trials, and concluded that "current evidence does not clearly support cardiovascular guidelines that encourage high consumption of polyunsaturated fatty acids and low consumption of total saturated fats." http://www.medpagetoday.com/Blogs/EdibleRx/53696?xid=nl_mpt_DHE_2015-09-24&eun=g721819d0r