When it comes to your diet, all fats aren’t created equally. There are better fats and fats that should be limited. It’s important to get more of the good fats like monounsaturated fats and avoid the ...

Often referred to as “good” or “healthy” fats, polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fats feature unsaturated carbon bonds known as double bonds within their chemical structure. Fat molecules that ...

The fats you consume play vital roles throughout your body, from providing energy and supporting cell structure to enabling hormone production and helping absorb essential nutrients. However, not all ...

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

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 ...

Fat gives us energy and helps us absorb certain vitamins. colnihko/ Shutterstock You’d be forgiven for being confused about whether or not you should eat fat. For a long time, people were told to stay ...