A new study said that saturated fat is instead beneficial to the body.

Dr Malhotra said that recent studies have failed to show a link between risk of cardiovascular disease and high saturated fat intake and added that some studies have shown a low-fat diet to be worse than diets that had low carbohydrate intake. He said that while the food industry tried to replace saturated fats with added sugar, there is growing evidence that added sugar may be an ‘independent risk factor’ for metabolic syndrome which increases risk of diabetes.
“The greatest improvements in morbidity and mortality have been due not to personal responsibility but rather to public health. It is time to bust the myth of the role of saturated in heart disease and wind back the harms of dietary advice that has contributed to obesity”, Dr Malhotra said.
Source-Medindia