Yes, saturated fat is required for human health. Please read the resources.
Of course, IF you are a veg/an, you and I will never see eye-to-eye. That is fine. It's your health and it's still a free country :) At the least you might listen to #2, only 20 minutes and pretty eye-opening.
High LDL is a problem for many people, Chris and Chris talk about that in #4 and how to mitigate it.
Gov agencies and doctors have pushed the lie to avoid saturated fats to lower cholesterol. The resulting chain of events and misinformation has caused a health crisis like no other. Humans in "civilized" cultures are fatter and sicker than they've ever been. There's a YouTube video called "The Oiling of America" that goes into this debacle in depth.
RE: If your doctor tells you to give up saturated fat "because cholesterol" -- or because any reason, really -- RUN!