New U.S. dietary guidelines promote eating full-fat foods and meats. But experts say nuts and seed oils are better sources of ...

For more than half a century, Americans have been urged to shy away from saturated fats, found mainly in animal products. We have been told to cook with canola oil instead of butter, select skim ...

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to unveil new dietary guidelines encouraging more consumption of foods high in saturated fats, but nutrition experts told MedPage Today this goes ...

Sarah Todd returned to reporting in January 2025 after being assignment editor at STAT since October 2022. You can reach Sarah on Signal at sarahlizchar.47. Elizabeth Cooney is a cardiovascular ...

After repeated delays, the United States Department of Health and Human Services published new dietary guidelines on Jan. 7, which for the first time prioritize certain sources of saturated fats. “We ...

U my life I have been on the edges of science. At the start of the century, my father, J.S. Haldane, deeply engaged in the problem of alveolar air, probably didn’t notice that I was having fun on the ...

New research hints at a few ways fatty foods affect cells in the brain, a finding that could help explain the link between a high-fat diet and impaired memory -- especially as we age. A new study in ...

It’s official: The food pyramid is back, baby. Only it’s been flipped upside down, and beef, not bread, is king. That’s right: On January 7, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr ...

The idea of saturated fats' negative impact on cardiovascular health was a 1950s introduction, “based on weak science”. A review of diet-heart hypothesis going back to the late 1950s has claimed ...

On Wednesday Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and the U.S. Department of Agriculture released new official guidance that effectively overturns the food pyramid. The ...