All Dietary Fat Is Bad For You, Or Is It?

All Dietary Fat Is Bad For You, Or Is It?

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As a child, my father was diagnosed as having extremely high triglyceride levels in his blood. It resulted in switching over to low or no fat diet for our whole family. Wow, what a change. We switched over from whole milk to the milk having less than 2% fat. Mom tried skim but that was completely rejected by us 4 children.

We had a lot of meat cut from our diet. Spaghetti and meatballs were replaced by more sauce and noodles. Tuna casserole was okay with everyone. There were lots of noodles in the casseroles. That was a replacement for meat. More of starches such as potatoes, bread and noodles formed the part of our daily diet instead of meat. Any meat we ate had to have fat trimmed off it as much as possible before being cooked. We ate ground chuck or sirloin and chicken had to have no skin on it. Fried chicken became a meal of the past.

We had to cut back or out the trans fats. This is the type of fat that is formed by adding hydrogen to saturated fat. The trans fats tend to increase bad cholesterol and lower the good. Fast foods, chips, crackers, fried foods, non-dairy creamers, shortening and baked items all contain hydrogenated fats.

Mono unsaturated foods are better for you but if you continue to eat the same stuff you have been eating, it's not going to have a positive impact on your health.

Next we come to polyunsaturated fat. Eating foods that contain polyunsaturated fats help to decrease the risks of developing heart diseases in future. Omega 3 fatty acids fall in the polyunsaturated category. This is the type of fatty acid that can help lower cholesterol, help you prevent that impending heart attack that hydrogenated fats could cause. Omega 3 thins the blood and improves the flow of the blood to the heart .

The easiest way to increase the inclusion of omega 3 in the diet is to eat fish two times a week. Not just any fish, the fatty type of fish like salmon, tuna, whale, mackerel and halibut. If you eat just one serving of fish twice a week, there will be no need to take any additional supplements such as fish oil or flax seed oil gel tabs. Omega 3 also can be found in many vegetable oils such as safflower, sunflowers, sesame, soy bean, and corn oils. Altering your diet a bit to include omega 3 in it could extend your life span by years. It can also extend your quality of life.

The total dietary fat intake should come from, no trans fats at all, as much as 10% polyunsaturated fats, 10% from saturated fats and 10 to 15% from mono unsaturated fats. That means you should have up to 10% of your daily in-take of fat from omega 3 and poly unsaturated fats.

Now when looking at the labels, look for polyunsaturated fats, and not trans fats. That will make your food much healthier. On a few products, you are even going to start seeing omega 3 percentages. Since they are amongst the good fats.

Start now on your way to a healthier lifestyle by adding omega 3 to your daily diet.

About the Author:
Sandy is a common guest blogger at www.whatisomega3.com and offers some sound advice on What's Omega 3 good for, which could be very helpful for you to lead a healthy lifestyle.



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