Diet experts say that saturated fat tax may shorten Danish lives

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"A saturated fat tax may negatively affect people's eating habits, because perhaps they choose to drop the cheese and eat more French bread instead, and that would be a wrong choice. Or perhaps they put jam on their bread instead, and that would also be wrong," University of Copenhagen life sciences associate professor Tine Tholstrup told bt.dk. "The saturated fat tax law sends out the signal that products with saturated fat are unhealthy, and that is wrong." Saturated fat has long been hailed as unhealthy fat, but some recent studies show no detectable changes in the number of cardiovascular diseases one contracts whether more or less saturated fat is consumed.