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by 6t6t6t6 2864 days ago
> heart disease, cancer, diabetes

Those diseases have a primary cause: obesity.

And a secondary cause: extension of the life expectancy; people who die at 40 from an infection or an accident, cannot die from cancer or a heart attack at 55.

The importance of saturated fats as a factor in the extension or reduction of life expectancy is orders of magnitude lower than the former two.