When it comes to dietary fats, not all are created equal! Here are some tips to help you know which are healthy:
-Avoid trans fat, common sources: Solid margarine, commercial cookies, and pastries, fast-food french fries, “partially hydrogenated oil” in food ingredients.
-Limit saturated fat, common sources: Red meat, whole milk and whole-milk dairy foods, cheese, coconut oil, many commercially prepared baked goods and other foods.
-Take monounsaturated fats, common sources: Olive oil, peanut oil, canola oil, avocados, most nuts, high-oleic safflower, and sunflower oils.
-Take polyunsaturated fats, common sources: Salmon, mackerel, and sardines, flax seeds, walnuts, canola oil.
