Benefits of Reducing Saturated Fat Intake Criticized

A recent editorial by Malhotra, et al. made headlines claiming that reducing saturated fat intake has no effect on coronary heart disease. The authors do not cite the best or most recent evidence to support this claim. Importantly, they fail to acknowledge the results of a recent Cochrane review, which found moderate quality evidence that reducing saturated fat intake decreased cardiovascular (CV) events (including CV deaths, CV morbidity or unexplained CV interventions) in populations at low,...