What Doctors Don't Tell YouMany of us could do with a major rethink of our daily dietary fat intake. For some, this will mean cutting back while, for others, it means reorganising our diets to eat more or different types of fats.
The world of dietary fats is a complicated alphabet soup of names and numbers, and our understanding of how each type of fat works in the body - for good or ill - is far from complete.
Fish oils
The standard line tells you to stop smoking, reduce high blood pressure and lower your cholesterol levels if you want to avoid heart disease. While this may be good advice, half of all heart patients are non-smokers with normal levels of cholesterol...
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Reader's Corner
Reader's Corner
Reader's Corner
In the midst of the ‘good’ fats vs ‘bad’ fats debate, opt to take the most sensible middle road.
