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This was the week when everything we thought we knew about eating and drinking healthily was turned on its head.

First, a damning new study in the British Medical Journal showed that – after all we have been told to the contrary – saturated fat is good for you.

Far from being the great risk to our health and hearts, it turns out that most people who eat butter, milk, cream and full-fat yoghurts generally have better heart health, less risk of Type 2 diabetes, and are even slimmer than those who eat fat-free. It seems that there is a connection between our 30-year war on saturated fat and our terrifying obesity epidemic.

Now experts are saying instead that carbohydrates are the real killer.

Later in the week, more research was published in the British Medical Journal, suggesting that despite what we have always thought, the benefits of drinking wine have been overstated.

So what can we safely eat these days? And what had we better avoid? Here, the experts give their “definitive” verdict…

– Anna van Praagh

Source: Why you should never eat a bacon sandwich: what you can – and can’t – eat