Macro partitioning
Replacing dietary saturated fat with polyunsaturated vegetable oils significantly reduces cardiovascular disease incidence by approximately 30%, an effect comparable to statin treatment.
To lower your risk of heart disease, swap foods high in saturated fats (like butter, lard, and fatty meats) for foods high in polyunsaturated fats (like corn, soybean, and safflower oils). Do not replace these fats with refined carbs or sugars, as that offers no heart benefit. This change should be part of an overall healthy diet like the Mediterranean diet.
randomized controlled trials that lowered intake of dietary saturated fat and replaced it with polyunsaturated vegetable oil reduced CVD by ≈30%, similar to the reduction achieved by statin treatment.
Why this rating
Based on high-quality, double-blind, controlled randomized clinical trials with objective adherence biomarkers.
Source
Dietary Fats and Cardiovascular Disease: A Presidential Advisory From the American Heart Association
Frank M. Sacks et al. · Circulation · 2017
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