With the Food Pyramid defunct as of 2015 (currently replaced with “My Plate” with no hard science to back it up - other than the motivation of special interest groups and their global influence over our dietary guidelines), along with the results of the (PURE) Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology study in 2017 (among many other cardiovascular & low carb/high fat studies for example), arriving at the opposite conclusions that Ancel Keys’ Seven Countries Study postulated (which lead to our current dietary guidelines), our medical communities are just now beginning to consider reconsidering the fallacies of Keys’ heart-lipid hypothesis that saturated fat was bad for us.
Of note, the central conclusions from the PURE study revealed (emphasis mine):
1. Higher carbohydrate intake was associated with an increased risk of total mortality but not with the risk of cardiovascular disease or cardiovascular disease mortality.
2. Intake of total fat and each type of fat was associated with lower risk of total mortality.
3. Higher saturated fat intake was associated with lower risk of stroke.
4. Total fat and saturated and unsaturated fats were not significantly associated with risk of myocardial infarction or cardiovascular disease mortality.
For the complete study see: