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by lambdaba 1431 days ago
You might be interested in this document from Credit Suisse: https://research-doc.credit-suisse.com/docView?language=ENG&...

There are more than 450 references to saturated fat in the document, but I found this phrase early on:

> Our view is that saturated fats intake is at worst neutral for CVD risks and the current 10% upper limit should be lifted.

Apologies if there was some other property of red meat that you had in mind, although I've been convinced from people commenting studies purportedly linking red meat and say, colon cancer, are just based on poor quality epidemiological data. And, while there was some sort of intuitive sense in which one could imagine the saturated fat eaten with meat/dairy products would mechanically clog arteries, I don't see anything like this with red meat. In fact, we are made of it, why would eating it have a deleterious effect? To the contrary, it seems that abstaining from meat often quite quickly causes iron deficiency/disregulation, B12 deficiency and so on.