The key to dietary fat, then, is moderation—not avoidance. Don’t buy in to the hype behind the low-fat mantra. There is little research to support strong links between dietary fat (including saturated fat and cholesterol) and heart disease, cancer—and even body f at. 422 As researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health, who used to be among the chief recommenders of a low-fat diet, proclaim, “It is now increasingly recognized that the low-fat campaign has been based on little scientific evidence. . . .”
