The conversation on dietary fat, particularly, is butter healthy or not, has led to one major lesson: getting caught up in the nitty-gritty of every food’s nutritional value can mislead us to replace healthy fats with sugars and simple carbohydrates that could actually be more damaging.
Not all fats are bad and should not be totally eliminated from our diets. Fats can be consumed at a healthy level by choosing food with good fats and balancing how much of it you eat with how many calories you burn off. It also involves eating more vegetables, fruits, whole grains, low-fat dairy products, poultry, fish, legumes, non-tropical vegetable oils and nuts, and less sodium, sugar and red meats.
The best sources of fats are oily, cold-water fish (salmon, tuna), avocados, nuts and vegetable oils. These are known to fight inflammation which risks heart disease.
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