The Nuance

Cheese, Eggs, Milk, and Meat: Solving the Mystery of Saturated Fat

A new theory could resolve long-standing contradictions in the saturated-fat research

Markham Heid
Elemental
Published in
5 min readNov 17, 2021
Photo by Alexander Maasch on Unsplash

It’s a mystery that has confounded nutrition scientists.

People who have high levels of cholesterol in their blood — especially LDL…

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Markham Heid
Elemental

I’m a long-time contributor at TIME and other media orgs. I write mostly about health. I grew up in Michigan, but these days I live in southwest Germany.