Fats aren’t all bad – We need the good kind

Fats are all bad – We need the good kind

Our body needs good fats and it can certainly go without bad fats. However, this doesn’t mean that good fats can be justified in large amounts. One might assume that if they just eliminated fat from their diet they would lose large quantities of weight and there in lies the magical solution to obesity. That is not the case because our body actually needs fat, but there is a difference between heart healthy fats and the type that clog the arteries. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Dietary Guidelines recommends that at …read more