David Parker’s Reviews > The Cholesterol Myths: Exposing the Fallacy That Saturated Fat and Cholesterol Cause Heart Disease > Status Update

A recent study including more countries than the previous ones found only a weak, positive correlation between consumption of animal fat and hear mortality. Furthermore it found a much higher but negative correlation to other diseases: stroke, stomach cancer and other gastrointestinal diseases.
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