For months, nutrition experts have been anxiously waiting to see whether the new U.S. dietary guidelines would follow through on health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s pledge to end the war on saturated fat. The guidelines’ longstanding recommendation to cap saturated fat consumption at 10% of daily calories in order to reduce the risk of heart disease seemed likely to get the axe.
But when the much-ballyhooed new guidelines finally dropped on Wednesday, their stance on saturated fat was decidedly muddled.
