{"id":165,"date":"2015-05-11T06:14:40","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T11:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flagshipinsuranceservices.com\/?p=165"},"modified":"2020-04-27T07:57:28","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T12:57:28","slug":"separating-fat-fact-from-fat-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flagshipinsuranceservices.com\/index.php\/2015\/05\/11\/separating-fat-fact-from-fat-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Separating Fat Fact From Fat Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to fat consumption, it often seems like there\u2019s a lot of noise and little agreement about how much (or how little) you should eat. This can be frustrating for people who are trying to be healthy and follow expert recommendations, and it\u2019s tempting to try to eliminate fat intake altogether and let the experts fight it out.<br \/>\nBut is the amount of fat you eat really the issue? According to the Harvard School of Public Health, it\u2019s time to end the low-fat myth. Research has shown that the number of calories from fat that you eat, whether high or low, isn\u2019t really linked with disease. What really matters is the type of fat.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Unsaturated fats<\/strong>, which are found in nuts, avocadoes, fish and vegetable oils, are considered \u201cgood\u201d fats. Some of these, like omega-3 fatty acids, are considered essential fats that must be eaten regularly because the body cannot produce them internally.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Saturated fats<\/strong>, which are found in cheese, butter, red meat and some oils, have long been seen as a key culprit of heart disease and high cholesterol. The American Heart Association recommends limiting saturated fat consumption, but cautions against doing so by choosing products that replace fat with sugars and other refined carbohydrates.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Trans fats<\/strong> are found in heavily processed breads, baking mixes, shortening, snack foods and fried foods. For once, there is little disagreement\u2014the overwhelming scientific consensus suggests that trans fats are dangerous.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to fat consumption, it often seems like there\u2019s a lot of noise and little agreement about how much (or how little) you should eat. This can be frustrating for people who are trying to be healthy and follow expert recommendations, and it\u2019s tempting to try to eliminate fat intake altogether and let [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flagshipinsuranceservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flagshipinsuranceservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flagshipinsuranceservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flagshipinsuranceservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flagshipinsuranceservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flagshipinsuranceservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flagshipinsuranceservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flagshipinsuranceservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flagshipinsuranceservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}