For example, people who replaced saturated fats with unsaturated fats — especially polyunsaturated fats — had significantly lower risk of death overall during the study period, as well as lower risk of death from CVD, cancer, neurodegenerative disease, and respiratory disease, compared with those who
maintained high intakes of saturated fats.
«These results indicate that most healthy people probably tolerate
a high intake of saturated fat well, as long as the fat quality is good and total energy intake is not too high.
Scientists publishing in the British Medical Journal have reported
a high intake of saturated fats could be linked to increased coronary heart disease risk.
Endotoxemia is associated with high calorie intake,
high intake of saturated fat, abdominal obesity and an increased risk of diabetes (13, 14).
Yet another meta - analysis21 that pooled data from 21 studies and included nearly 348,000 adults found no difference in the risks of heart disease and stroke between people with the lowest and
highest intakes of saturated fat.
• A meta - analysis published last year, which pooled data from 21 studies and included nearly 348,000 adults, found no difference in the risks of heart disease and stroke between people with the lowest and
highest intakes of saturated fat.
It is well known that
a high intake of saturated fat can increase levels of cholesterol in the blood (20), which is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease.
Additionally, «good» cholesterol HDL consistently increases with
a higher intake of saturated fat.
The higher our intake of saturated fats, the more LA needed to both counteract the saturated fat, and also provide the nutrients our body needs to perform its functions.
The authors speculate that the DASH diet may have characteristics that prevent the rise in LDL - cholesterol typically associated with
a higher intake of saturated fats.
Reduced intake of saturated fat and meat:
The high intake of saturated fat and meat may be a part of the reason that breast cancer is much more common in areas where Western diets prevail.In the Nurses» Health II Study, premenopausal women who ate the most fat had a slightly increased risk for breast cancer.
They did and highlighted the experience in Finland where «a successful nationwide health project to lower the very high rate of CHD mortality, started in 1972, had as a major goal the reduction in
the high intake of saturated fat.