Mooove over, butter. Everything from “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter!” to “plant” and “oat milk” butters are vying to unseat the spreadable dairy fat. That’s a good thing. Most wannabes have far less artery-clogging saturated fat...and more heart-healthy unsaturated fat. Here are 8 tips to help you find the best non-butters, plus what else does (or doesn't) matter.
“Although avocados are high in fat, it’s mainly healthy monounsaturated fat,” says WebMD. “Research has found that this type of fat in your diet can help trim your waistline.” Or...maybe not.
Lowering your LDL (“bad”) cholesterol cuts your risk of a heart attack. How to do it? Replace saturated fats (red meat, cheese, butter, coconut oil, fatty sweets, etc.) with unsaturated fats (oil, salad dressing, mayo, nuts, fish, avocado, etc.).
Why do health experts recommend eating seafood once or twice a week? Among the reasons: You’re in good company. In studies that track thousands of people for years or decades, frequent seafood eaters have a lower risk of heart attacks and strokes.
Healthy EatingLindsay Moyer, MS, RDN, Kate Sherwood
All fats are a mix of saturated, monounsaturated, and polyunsaturated fatty acids, though people usually categorize them by the fatty acid that predominates.
The good fats include monounsaturated fats (like avocado, canola oil, olive oil, safflower, and sunflower oil) and polyunsaturated fats (like fish, nuts, seeds, soy foods, sesame oil, and soybean oil).
Nuts get lots of attention...and they deserve it. Healthy fats. Vitamins & minerals. A little plant protein. And talk about taste! The hard part: stopping after one serving.
If you’re trying to eat more nuts and seeds—or just trying to find the healthiest ones—here are 9 tips to consider.
It’s one of the best-established medical facts: Lowering your LDL (“bad”) cholesterol cuts your risk of a heart attack. How to do it? Replace bad fats (red meat, cheese, butter, coconut oil, fatty sweets, etc.) with good fats (oil, salad dressing, mayo, nuts, fish, avocado, etc.).
Are some fats in foods more likely to end up as harmful visceral fat than as less-harmful subcutaneous fat?
To find out, Ulf Risérus, associate professor of clinical nutrition and metabolism at Uppsala University in Sweden, and his colleagues devised what some have called “the muffin study.”
“We had lean people eat, on average, three muffins per day on top of their usual diet,” he explains. That meant that each participant ate 750 more calories a day than he or she needed.
“We wanted a moderate—not an extreme—increase in calorie intake to represent the normal situation in the Western world, where most people gain weight after their 30s.”
"Replacing saturated fat with healthier fat could lower cardiovascular risks,” announced a Presidential Advisory from the American Heart Association in July 2017. We talked to the advisory committee’s chair.
