The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
Most recent meta-analyses which is a study of studies a collection of studies and randomized trials which are interventional trials and observational studies which are the things that i have referred to as epidemiology found no beneficial effects of reducing saturated fat intake on cardiovascular disease and total mortality and instead found protective effects against stroke
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we could not show that saturated fat was associated with higher rates of heart disease
most recent meta-analyses of randomized trials and observational studies so both randomized trials and observational studies found no beneficial effects of reducing saturated fat intake on cardiovascular disease and total mortality and instead found protective effects against stroke