This isn’t just about saturated fat. It’s about the broader cost of reductionism in nutrition—where complex dietary patterns ...

Oct. 4, 2004 -- A high intake of polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fat, particularly cis fat, is associated with a reduced risk of gallstone disease, according to the results of a prospective, ...

Experts recommend emphasizing mono- and polyunsaturated fats (including Omega-3s) in daily eating. In addition to avocado, ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Saturated fats, which include butter, lard and shortening, are solid at room temperature. (Steve Wisbauer / Getty Images) (Steve ...

Looking at nutrition labels can be confusing, as foods with high amounts of total fat won’t necessarily make you fat. Saturated fat and trans fat are two artery-clogging types that you should severely ...

There may be no nutrient more maligned than fat. In the 90s, it was widely believed we needed to avoid fat at all costs, and food products branded as “low-fat” were everywhere. By the 2010s, the ...

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 ...

Dieting culture tends to move in cycles. At present, companies are jam-packing protein into many packaged goods because the average person now knows about the importance of protein. While this can get ...

Unsaturated, or Good Fats Saturated, or Bad Fats Replace Bad Fats With Good Ones 7 Ways to Increase Your Healthy Fat Intake Eating well when you have Crohns disease, a form of inflammatory bowel ...

Butter or margarine is a debate which has been raging for more than a century, ever since the first butter alternatives ...