Saturated vs Trans Fats - Which is healthier?

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What does the data say about saturated fat and all cause mortality, cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes?

What are saturated fats?

Butter, tallow, dairy, coconut, and fatty meat are a few examples of saturated fats.

An analysis of cohort studies was analyzed in 2015.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC4532752/

Their findings indicated there were no associations with saturated fat intake and all cause mortality, heart disease, or type 2 diabetes.

Meaning: saturated fat couldn't be linked to poor health outcomes.

Trans Fats:

Trans fats were associated with all cause mortality (that's bad).

Artificial trans fat is created during hydrogenation, which converts liquid vegetable oils into semi-solid partially hydrogenated oil. This is another indicator that vegetable oils lead to disease while saturated fats (typically animal fats and coconut) are vindicated.

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