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No matter what kind of evidence comes out to the contrary, the anti-saturated fat\\xa0sect won\\u2019t relinquish its dogma. Whenever its advance is rebuffed\\u2014perhaps by an observational study showing the lack of relations between saturated fat intake and heart disease, or a study showing the beneficial effects of saturated fat on multiple health markers\\u2014they regroup and try another route. The latest is a\\xa0study\\xa0that several readers sent to me, worried that the attack had finally made it through the defenses. In it, researchers purport to show that saturated fat increases the solidity and rigidity of cellular membranes, reducing membrane fluidity and eventually leading to cell death.

(This Mark\'s Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson, and is narrated by Tina Leaman)