In the recent Harvard Gazette article “,” researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health debunk the controversy surrounding saturated fat and heart health. In a appearing online in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, senior author Frank Hu and colleagues found that people who replace saturated fat (primarily found in meats and dairy foods) with refined carbohydrates do not lower their risk of heart disease, whereas those who replace saturated fats with unsaturated fats or whole grains lower their heart disease risk.
鈥淥ur research does not exonerate saturated fat,鈥 said Hu. 鈥淚n terms of heart disease risk, saturated fat and refined carbohydrates appear to be similarly unhealthful.鈥
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