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Diet debate: is saturated fat good or bad for you?

8th June 2016Anitadietary guidelines, fat, saturated fat

8th June 2016 For years, we’ve been told that saturated fat is bad for the heart. The dogma was that this particular type of fat raises levels of cholesterol, promotes atherosclerosis and causes heart disease. But a new report and rash of media headlines (‘Eat Fat to get thin’) has claimed that saturated fat doesn’t…

Fat Fight: the row over fat advice

11th February 2015Anitadietary guidelines, fat, low-fat

11th February 2015 Yesterday’s row between nutrition experts over a report criticising dietary fat guidelines (it argued that dietary fat advice given to the nation was based on flimsy evidence and should not have been introduced) has thrown some timely nutrition arguments into the public arena. Should we continue advising the public to cut fat…