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Low-fat dairy and other dairy foods showed no clear association. People who regularly ate higher-fat cheese and cream had a lower risk of developing dementia over 25 years, while low-fat dairy and ...

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 ...

Anyone who has paid close attention to Donald Trump’s utterances over the years is acutely aware of his black-and-white perspective on America’s history and its current trajectory. It’s a tale of ...

Researchers have uncovered a surprising new role for the HSL protein: beyond breaking down fat, it also works inside the nucleus of fat cells to keep them functioning properly. When HSL is missing, ...

FAT Brands – parent company of Fazoli’s, Round Table Pizza, and Fatburger — may “seek to reorganize through a bankruptcy proceeding” after receiving notices of acceleration on the company’s debt.

Jelly belly. Thunder thighs. Muffin top. When it comes to our wobbly bits, we aren’t short of derogatory terminology. Many societies tend to view fat as an inert padding that keeps us warm at best, if ...

Americans have been told to prioritize low-fat dairy for decades, but Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has called that recommendation into question. By Caroline Hopkins Legaspi Since the 1980s, federal health ...

If you melted down the average UK adult, you’d find around 22 kilograms (48.5 pounds) of creamy yellow fat – equivalent to around 88 blocks of lard, enough to fill two-thirds of a small suitcase or ...

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. Christopher Gardner is exuberant in his ...

Valdemar Brimnes Ingemann Johansen's PhD studies are funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research. This article was commissioned as part of a partnership collaboration ...

Fruit fat sounds like an oxymoron since the macronutrient is virtually absent in apples, oranges, berries and other popular choices. “Most fruits naturally contain little to no fat. Bananas are a ...