India, March 19 -- A recent study by researchers from Mass General Brigham, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard suggests that replacing butter with plant-based oils may provide significant health benefits, including a lower risk of premature death.
"What's surprising is the magnitude of the association that we found - we saw a 17 percent lower risk of death when we modeled swapping butter with plant-based oils in daily diet. That is a pretty huge effect on health," said study lead author Yu Zhang.
The study analyzed the dietary habits of 221,000 middle-aged Americans over a 33-year period. Results showed that individuals who consumed the highest amounts of plant-based oils had a 16 per...