Eating saturated fat regularly affects your LDL cholesterol levels and can raise your heart disease risk. There are simple steps you can take to lower your numbers.
However, there may be confusion in the aftermath of the release of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA), 2025-2030 ...
Confusion often arises in conversations about dietary fat. There are many, e.g., polyunsaturated, monounsaturated, and saturated fats, cis and trans fats, short, medium, and long chain fatty acids, ...
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 ...
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 ...
When new dietary guidelines for Americans came out in early January, I couldn’t help but notice “healthy fats” at the top of the inverted food pyramid. Like the food pyramid itself, the new guidelines ...