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Will saturated fat kill yourselves?

No matter what kind of evidence comes out to the contrary,

the anti-saturated fat sect won't relinquish its dogma.

Whenever its advance is rebuffed,

perhaps by an observational study showing the lack of relations

between saturated fat intake and heart disease, or a study showing the beneficial effects of saturated

fat on multiple health markers. They regroup and try another route. The latest is a study that

several readers sent to me, worried that the attack had finally

made it through the defenses.

In it, researchers purport to show that saturated fat increases the solidity and rigidity

of cellular membranes, reducing membrane fluidity and eventually leading to cell death.

Is it true?

Have we finally lost?

What was this study all about?

First, there's this.

They weren't dealing with live humans or even whole animals fed butter or coconut oil.

They extracted living cells and bathed them in solutions of different fatty acid concentrations

to see how it would affect the lipid concentration of the cell membranes.

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