I often receive notes asking questions about dietary fats, like why is unsaturated fat healthier than saturated fat, and what is trans fat. Good questions, but to answer them I’ll have to first walk ...

February is American Heart Month. Like many of you, I do my best to eat healthy and get enough exercise. As I was preparing dinner, I casually made a comment about how the meal I was making was higher ...

The previous article described how fatty acids consist of long chains of carbon-carbon bonds, with the carbon mostly “saturated” with hydrogen atoms. When two saturated adjacent carbon atoms exchange ...

Fat has been a dietary villain for decades. Because saturated fat, in particular, was found to raise cholesterol levels and thereby increase heart disease risk, and too much fat had been linked to an ...

Avocados are healthy, but many other nutrient-dense fats can also support heart and overall health.Healthy fats like olive oil, walnuts, seeds, sardines, egg yolks, and full-fat yogurt provide good ...

Fat has had quite the parley in dietary discussion spaces – the low-fat movement starting in the 1980s told us we should eliminate fat, while high-fat diets like keto tell us the opposite. How do you ...

Remember the '90s, when ‘low-fat’ claims plastered every food label possible? Little did we know that there are good healthy fats — also known as monounsaturated fats — that the body quite literally ...