If in 1 gram of:
And you are trying to loose weight, than you should:
The bad fats are:
1.Saturated fat, raises bad cholesterol and increases the risk of heart disease, stroke and cancer.
The most saturated fats are found in foods like:
2.Trans, or hydrogenated fat, raises bad cholesterol and lovers good cholesterol.
Trans, or hydrogenated fat is found in:
Do some careful nutritional label reading to determine if food has trans fats.
Check the ingredient list for ” hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated vegetable oil.” The higher up on the list this ingredient is, and the more total fat that’s in the product, the more trans fat the food has.
Chose low-fat baked goods, stay away from packaged and prepackaged foods, eat more raw foods like fruits and vegetables and cook as much as you can home.
The good fats are:
1.Unsaturated fats:
Monosaturated fat, helps lower bad cholesterol (LDL) while maintaining good cholesterol (HDL) and has been shown to protect against heart disease, stroke, and cancer.
Foods rich in monosaturated fat:
2.Polyunsaturated fats, omega-3 and omega-6, both are critical to the health of all of our cells, especially those of the skin and immune system.They also:
Omega-3 fat
The best sources of omega-3 fat are:
Omega-6 fat
Benefits are mixed, good and bad.
Big omega-6 sources include:
Many foods, like walnuts, tofu, wheat germ, soybean oil, are rich in both omega-3 and omega-6 fats.
Eating the mixture of these three types of unsaturated fats – mono, omega-3, and omega-6 is important.
The key to consuming more healthful fats is consuming more omega-3 and mono unsaturated fats.
