Cooked up: reducing dietary animal fat might not be as healthy as government advice has led millions of people to believe (Alamy) Get the Well Enough newsletter with Harry Bullmore for tips on living ...

The British Medical Journal has issued a clarion call to all who want to ward off heart disease: Forget the statins and bring back the bacon (or at least the full-fat yogurt). Saturated fat is not the ...

The voice of reason is easy to shout down but hard to vanquish altogether. This week it turned up in an unlikely place: an academic paper about gender bias in the sciences. The Proceedings of the ...

Diets low in saturated fat don't curb heart disease risk or help you live longer, says a leading US cardiovascular research scientist. And current dietary advice to replace saturated fats with ...

Palm oil, being the most readily available to much of the world's population, has become one of the most debated ingredients ...

A dollop of ghee or butter in your diet does not cause as much harm to your heart as it was believed till now. A dollop of ghee or butter in your diet does not cause as much harm to your heart as it ...

Researchers have found that adding saturated fats to a pig's diet does not change pork firmness. Many pork producers have added saturated fats to counteract the effects of feeding distiller's dried ...