New Analysis Calls Saturated Fat Nutrition Advice Into Question

A new analysis of data from the Minnesota Coronary Experiment, originally performed more than 40 years ago, is raising serious questions about nutrition advice to limit saturated fat to reduce the risk of heart disease. The new report , published in the BMJ, found that study participants fed diets higher in saturated fat had lower risk of death from coronary heart disease compared to participants fed a diet with lower saturated fat levels. This contradicts decades of dietary advice including recommendations in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

The new analysis was performed after researchers discovered previously unpublished documents from the study. It generated considerable media attention in outlets around the world.

In response, the Meat Institute penned a letter to USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack, HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell and an open letter to nutrition researchers and journal editors urging that research projects, no matter their findings, be published so they may be considered in public health deliberations.

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