Ghee: how much is actually "healthy"?

Ghee holds a special place in Indian households and Indian identity - dadi's ghee, pure desi ghee, ghee as prasad. That cultural weight makes it easy to slide from 'ghee is a valued food' to 'ghee has no calorie or health limit.' Here's what the actual clinical and epidemiological research says, kept deliberately separate from Ayurvedic tradition - which is a different, and valid, but different, kind of knowledge.