Increasing saturated fat and decreasing monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats in the diet leads to higher LDL cholesterol for approximately 70% of people.

“if you're measuring ldl in milligrams per deciliter then i think 70 of humans are going to see an increase in ldl when you increase their saturated fat in the diet and so when you really look into this there's a pretty clear correlation between the ratio of saturated fat to mono plus polyunsaturated fat”

“if you're eating more saturated and less mono and poly your ldl for 67 of people observationally is gonna be higher”

“when you eat more saturated fat butter eggs tallow meat all the things that make us vital real strong humans your ldl will likely go up in the majority of the population”

“and I think that LDL rises in humans when we eat saturated fat this is not a bad thing this is a good thing I think and I'll show you why in a moment and it rises in humans when you avoid polyunsaturated fatty acids”

“what we find is that if you eat more saturated fat from animals and less polyunsaturated fat from seed oils or whatever your LDL often Rises 20 15 20 percent”

“there's a clear relationship between the ratio of saturated to polyunsaturated plus monounsaturated fats in your diet and your LDL cholesterol what do I mean by this the more saturated fat that I eat and the less polyunsaturated fat that I eat the high my LDL cholesterol is going to be”

“it is very well established that increasing saturated fat intake increases LDL cholesterol and increasing PUFAs decrease LDL cholesterol”