Beef tallow, seed oils, and full-fat dairy: Are any of them heart-healthy?
No wonder people are confused about healthy versus unhealthy fats. The latest federal dietary guidelines refer to beef tallow and butter as healthy. (Beef tallow is rendered fat from a cow.) But nutrition and heart experts alike have long encouraged people to steer clear of those animal-based fats, which are high in artery-clogging saturated fat.
U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy even referred to them as poisonous.
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