Animal Fats vs. Vegetable Oils Animal products that are high in saturated fats - like butter, lard, and tallow - have been shown to cause adverse health effects.

Neanderthals living 125,000 years ago in what is now modern-day Germany may have extracted and eaten fat from animal bones through an organized food preparation process that scientists describe as ...

Many critics promote swapping seed oils for animal fats like butter, beef tallow and lard. Just two decades after the fat-free era of the early 2000s, people are now fighting about which fat is best.

Not just any fat, but saturated fat. "Anyone that studies chronic disease seriously and its connection to health will tell you what's making us sick primarily is our diet," said Dr. Cate Shanahan.