Busted: Cholesterol Plaque NOT Caused By This Animal FatIn the past three decades, science has been so inconsistent when it comes to the health risks of animal fats that consumers have been understandably confused about what to consume and what to avoid.

But a new study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition has now decisively revealed that one type of animal fat is definitely not unhealthy for your heart.

In fact, those who consumed this fat moderately were 25 percent less likely to die than those who didn’t consume this fat.

The scientists examined data collected from the Italian cohort of the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition study, also called the EPIC study.

They specifically collected the subject’s socioeconomic and demographic data, their health data, and information regarding their intake of milk (total, full fat, and low fat), yogurt, cheese, butter, and overall dairy calcium.

They specifically wanted to know whether dairy consumption increased their participant’s risk of dying prematurely of cardiovascular disease, cancer, or all other causes combined.

Following up after approximately 14.9 years, they found that 2,468 of their 45,009 participants had died, 59 percent of cancer and 19 percent of cardiovascular disease.

But they could find no difference in the death rates of consumers versus non-consumers of dairy products.

No type of dairy product puts its consumers at increased risk of death.

Not even full-fat milk.

Interestingly enough, when they compared people who consumed milk with those who consumed no milk, they found that people in the former group were actually 25 percent less likely to die of all causes than people in the latter group.

This was, however, only true for those who consumed between 120 and 160 grams of milk per day, not for those who consumed more than 200 grams per day.

So, if not milk, then what causes cholesterol plaque buildup? It’s this ONE ingredient you didn’t even know you were consuming…