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Meta-analysis and Systematic Review confirms that saturated fats are not bad for you !

Saturday, January 17, 2015

Submitted by

Joel Dunning

Source

Source Name: The Annals of Internal Medicine

Source URL: http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=1846638

Author(s)

Rajiv Chowdhury, MD, PhD; Samantha Warnakula, MPhil*; Setor Kunutsor, MD, MSt*; Francesca Crowe, PhD; Heather A. Ward, PhD; Laura Johnson, PhD; Oscar H. Franco, MD, PhD; Adam S. Butterworth, PhD; Nita G. Forouhi, MRCP, PhD; Simon G. Thompson, FMedSci; Kay-Tee Khaw, FMedSci; Dariush Mozaffarian, MD, DrPH; John Danesh, FRCP*; and Emanuele Di Angelantonio, MD, PhD*

Guidelines advocate changes in fatty acid consumption to promote cardiovascular health.

This papers summarizes evidence about associations between fatty acids and coronary disease.

They conclude that Current evidence does not clearly support cardiovascular guidelines that encourage high consumption of polyunsaturated fatty acids and low consumption of total saturated fats.