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An association between dietary fats and coronary artery disease was initial noted within the 1950s. In 1957, the American Heart Association (AHA) published its first, tentative recommendations for limiting the consumption of saturated fat. The recommendations were specifically aimed only at individuals who had strong genetic predisposition to heart attacks or strokes, or who already had heart disease. An accompanying editorial by Herbert Pollack, in the August, 1957 concern of Circulation, specifically warned against the widespread application of the recommendation to stay away from saturated fat:
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