Swap saturated fats for unsaturated fats to help lower LDL cholesterol. Replace butter, coconut oil and lard with olive, ...

Diets rich in mono-unsaturated fats from plants may lower the risk of death from heart disease and other causes. The largest reductions in the risk of death were found when healthy fats from plant ...

Eating a low-carb breakfast can prevent post-breakfast blood sugar spikes, compared to breakfasts high in sugary and ...

An unsaturated fat is a fat or fatty acid in which there is one or more double bond in the fatty acid chain. A fat molecule is monounsaturated if it contains one double bond, and polyunsaturated if it ...

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 ...

Few years ago ‘fat’ was a bad word and we were told to banish it. Now, health experts and researchers around the world are talking about different types of fats. The truth is that your body needs some ...

The major health complication of overweight and obesity is cardiovascular disease (CVD). Although dietary fat is often seen as major cause of obesity, there is no strong evidence that decreasing the ...

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