Healthy eating diets begin
with healthy ingredients. One
of the most important things
you can do is to cut
unhealthy fats from your diet.
Eating too many unhealthy
fats lead to high cholesterol
and heart disease.
How to Cut Unhealthy Fats
From Your Diet

by Julie McMurchie
It can also lead to an increased risk of colon, prostate, rectum, and
endometrium cancers. There is substantial evidence that suggests
saturated fat plays an important role in increasing cancer risk. It is
obvious that unhealthy fat has the potential of making us unhealthy.

If your family’s diet is high in unhealthy fats, there is no better time than
now to change the way you eat. Your children will benefit from a lifetime
of healthy eating, and you will most likely see changes in your health and
possible prevent major illness later on.

There are five types of fats. Knowing which of them are healthy and
which aren’t is your first step toward eating for health.

Unhealthy Fats

  • Saturated Fats are found in animal foods, such as meat and dairy
    products. Tropical oils (palm, coconut and cocoa butter) are also
    saturated fats.  
  • Trans Fats are found in many cakes, cookies and snack foods.
    They are made when a liquid fat is turned into a solid. You may
    recognize them as partially hydrogenated and hydrogenated
    vegetable oils, and shortening.
  • Cholesterol in eggs, dairy food and meats.

Healthy Fats

  • Polyunsaturated Fats, safflower, sunflower and corn oil are liquid
    at room temperature. They are also the main fats in seafood.
    Omega 3 (which may lower your chances of getting heart disease)
    and Omega 6 fatty acids are polyunsaturated fats. Omega 3 fatty
    acids are found in fatty fish like salmon and mackerel. Other
    sources include ground flaxseeds and flaxseed oil, soybeans,
    walnuts, and seeds.
  • Monounsaturated fats are liquid at room temperature but become
    solid when refrigerated. They may help lower your bad (LDL)
    cholesterol and raise your good cholesterol (HDL) and lower your
    chances of getting heart disease. Sources of monounsaturated
    fats are canola oil, olive oil, peanut oil, olives, avocados, nuts, and
    nut butters.
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