Eat Good Fat for Heart Health

For almost forty years, the medical establishment demonized dietary fat and claimed that a low-fat diet was the key to good health, particularly heart health. Of course, our ancestors knew better and recently the scientific evidence caught up with their folk wisdom. If you find it hard to accept that the "scientific consensus" could be so wrong for so long, Dr. Joseph Mercola explains how and why good fats are essential for heart health.

Omega-3 fats — specifically EPA and DHA — are essential to your overall health, including your heart health.

A recent analysis of 19 studies confirms that regular consumption of fish and other omega-3 rich foods, including certain plant-based sources, may lower your risk of a fatal heart attack (myocardial infarction) by about 10 percent.1,2,3

This effect held true even after accounting for confounding factors like age, sex, ethnicity, diabetes and use of aspirin or cholesterol-lowering drugs  Read more

Eat More Good Fat

Margaret Durst reveals twenty signs that you may not be getting enough essential fats.

Essential Fats are vital to our health. They help regulate body chemistry at every level. All cells in our bodies use fats as part of the membrane that lets the right things in and keeps the wrong things out. Good fats also help keep tissues lubricated and supple. Most people are deficient in good fats because they are not present in the typical American diet, and the types of fats that are present in typical diets actually block the action of good fats. Good fats are also depleted by eating too much refined grain – particularly wheat and corn.
Bad fats are known for increasing inflammation, increasing cholesterol, increasing blood clotting, and disrupting hormone balances. Good fats help decrease inflammation, decrease cholesterol, decrease blood clotting and balance hormones. Here is a list of symptoms of essential fat deficiency: Read more