Unsaturated fats support heart health and healthy cholesterol levels.Peanut butter is a source of unsaturated fats and other nutrients, but other foods provide equal or more unsaturated fats per ...

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 ...

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, ...

Fact checked by Nick Blackmer Chia oil and olive oil are both good sources of healthy fats.While chia oil contains mostly ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...