Polyunsaturated Fats Are Good Fats, Healthy For Your Heart

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Good Fats To Eat?
Polyunsaturated Fats Are Good Choices!

The Good Fats

Polyunsaturated fats or for that matter monounsaturated fats are healthy fats that help lower your levels of the bad cholesterol lipid known as low-density-lipoprotein (LDL), hence reduce your risk of heart disease.

They're definitely healthier than saturated fats which raise your levels of the bad cholesterol LDL and hence your risk of heart disease.

However, unlike monounsaturated fat, polyunsaturates tend to lower the good cholesterol lipid, known as high-density lipoprotein (HDL).

Polyunsaturates are Essential in our Diets

This is because they contain essential fatty acids like omega 3 and omega 6 fatty acids, which our body can't produce.

We need these essential fatty acids for healthy brain function and for normal growth and development of our body.

A bit on omega-3 fatty acids.

They're the most important essential nutrient that our diet lacks.

Research shows that they can improve your health by lowering triglycerides (a type of fat in your blood), improving your heart, brain and circulation functions and helping prevent diseases and ailments like cancer, diabetes, strokes, arthritis, Alzheimer, skin disorder and gout.

Vegetable oils like safflower, corn, sunflower and soybean are rich in polyunsaturates.

I try to go for polyunsaturates that contain the omega-3 essential fatty acids (alpha-linolenic acid, LNA), like flax oil, hemp oil, pumpkin seeds, walnuts or oily fish like salmon, mackerel, herring and trout.

How much of Polyunsaturated Fats you should Eat?

Well, the American Heart Association recommends that all the fats you eat should not be more than 30% of the total calories you eat in a day.

And for good health, the majority of those fats should be monounsaturated or polyunsaturated or both.

But like all fats, polyunsaturates are high in calories. 1 gram of them has 9 calories.

So, watch out for your portions when you eat them, if you wanna lose weight.

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