Your response speaks to part of the problem: most Americans don't know what is healthy. Fat is fine. You should eat fat, but near zero sugar/carbs. Carbs and sugar are the major causes of obesity in the US. Go back to the 1920s and the US diet was 50~100g of carbs (sugar and starch, excluding fiber) each day. Today it's 400g ~ 500g. Most "low fat" foods just add more sugar to compensate for the taste. Salt also isn't bad for you. Most of the studies showing it leads to heart disease or high blood pressure are pretty flawed. Same with Cholesterol. Over 3/4ths of humans self regulate cholesterol. If you eat a ton more, your body just gets rid of it. If you don't eat enough, it will make more from other nutrients. The reason we see Cholesterol is arteries is because sugar causes glysification (when you cook bacon; you know how it turns brown? Sugar does that in your arteries). Cholesterol is used to fix the damage. You constantly inflame the blood vessels and the cholesterol just builds up and builds up in the wall lining until it breaks and causes a heart attack. Big media demonized Adkins and other low carb people in the 2000s. We're seeing Keto diets making a come back. Those diets provide us intake that's closer to what America had before the 1980s, which was way less sugar and way more meat and veggies.