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CARLA OATESis a natural beauty expert and the author of Feeding Your Skin.

Low-fat, high-carbohydrate diets have been prescribed since the 1950s based on bad science that linked saturated fat and raised cholesterol levels with heart disease. Confusing things more, the low-fat, fat-free packaged foods we were told to eat were usually highly processed and high in sugar, salt and refined carbs.

But decades of rising rates of obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease and high blood pressure have shown that found no link between saturated fat and heart disease.

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