Confusion reigns. Is a diet rich in saturated fat risky for health or not? One of the oldest and most widely understood dogmas of human nutrition is that too much of this fat from meat, dairy and other animal sources is potentially harmful.
Given the strength of the consensus on this for decades, it has been unsettling to see this advice comprehensively challenged recently by a loose confederation of doctors, nutritionists and popular writers.
These detractors say that saturated fat has no adverse effect on human health, and that overconsumption of carbohydrates and highly processed plant oils is instead…
