Welcome to the Nutrition Science Podcast, where we help you cut through the noise and make informed science-based decisions about nutrition and your health.

How's it going, everyone? Welcome back to another episode of the Nutrition Science Podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Adrian Chavez. And in this episode, we are going to be discussing the role of saturated

fat and health. And we're going to take a deep dive into this topic. We're going to discuss

what saturated fats are, the different types of saturated fatty acids, where they're found

in our diet and the role of saturated fat consumption and various health outcomes. So this is going to

be a pretty complicated topic overall.

It's just a complicated topic.

There's a lot of nuance to this topic.

So my goal is to give you a little bit of that nuance,

but then also take a bigger picture approach

and really help you to understand what this new information may mean for you and the choices that you make

in terms of your dietary habits. Before we get started, I want to encourage you if you haven't

already to tune into the previous episode of the show. The previous episode, I interviewed my good

friend, Dr. Crystal Zuniga, who is a cancer dietitian. She's a professor at

University of Texas. She is the go-to person when it comes to cancer for me. And I wanted her to share

her wisdom and knowledge with all of you because cancer is a very important topic. One in two

men are going to experience cancer in their lifetime. One in three women are going to experience cancer in their lifetime, one and three women are

going to experience cancer in their lifetime. And it's really good if you have an understanding

beforehand, because if you ever did happen to get a diagnosis, which I don't wish upon

anyone, that's a scary time. And having a little bit of understanding of nutrition,

what's important, is going to help you navigate that a lot better.

Because if you get diagnosed and you're scared and you're desperate, there's a lot of people

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