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Fat is a major source of energy and aids your body in absorbing vitamins. It's important for proper growth, development and keeping you healthy. Fat provides taste to foods and helps you feel full. Fats are an especially important source of calories and nutrients for infants and toddlers. Dietary fat also plays a major role in yourcholesterol levels.
But not all fats are the same. You should try to avoid
- Saturated fats such as butter, solid shortening, lard and fatback
- Trans fats, found in vegetable shortenings, some margarines, crackers, cookies, snack foods and other foods made with or fried in partially hydrogenated oils
Try to replace them with oils such as corn, canola, olive, safflower, soybean and sunflower. Of course, eating too much fat will put on the pounds.
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Start Here
- Dietary Fat(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- Know Your Fats(American Heart Association)
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- Teenagers
- Patient Handouts
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Overviews
- Fats 101(American Heart Association)
- Weighing in on Dietary Fats
From the National Institutes of Health(National Institutes of Health) - What Are the Types of Fat?(Dept. of Veterans Affairs) – PDF
Latest News
- High-Fat Dairy Foods Linked to Worse Survival After Breast Cancer(03/14/2013, HealthDay)
- Omega-3 DHA May Prevent Earliest Preemies(03/12/2013, Reuters Health)
- No Sign That Omega-3s Benefit Babies' Brains(02/08/2013, Reuters Health)
- More News on Dietary Fats
Alternative Therapy
- Omega-3 Supplements: An IntroductionFrom the National Institutes of Health(National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine)
- What Are Chia Seeds?(Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics)
Specific Conditions
- Butter vs. Margarine: Which Is Better for My Heart?(Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
- Fat Substitutes(American Heart Association)
- Fats and Oils to ChooseFrom the National Institutes of Health(National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute) – PDF
- It's a Good Thing — Omega-3 Fats(InteliHealth, Harvard Medical School)
- Olive Oil: What Are the Health Benefits?(Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
- Trans Fats(American Heart Association)
- What Are Oils?(Dept. of Agriculture)
- What Are Solid Fats?(Dept. of Agriculture)
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Related Issues
- Disorders of Lipid Metabolism(Merck & Co., Inc.)
- Fat Grams: How to Track Your Dietary Fat(Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
- Fats and Cholesterol: Out with the Bad, In with the Good(Harvard School of Public Health)
- Trans Fat Now Listed with Saturated Fat and Cholesterol on the Nutrition Facts Label(Food and Drug Administration)
- Also available in Spanish
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Health Check Tools
- Face the Fats Quiz 1(American Heart Association)
- Face the Fats Quiz 2(American Heart Association)
- My Fats Translator(American Heart Association)
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Videos
- Cut Down on Fat – Not on Taste!(Healthy Roads Media)
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Anatomy/Physiology
- What Do Fats Do in the Body?From the National Institutes of Health(National Institute of General Medical Sciences)
- You Are What You EatFrom the National Institutes of Health(National Institute of General Medical Sciences)
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Clinical Trials
- ClinicalTrials.gov: Fatty AcidsFrom the National Institutes of Health(National Institutes of Health)
- ClinicalTrials.gov: Fatty Acids, Omega-3From the National Institutes of Health(National Institutes of Health)
- ClinicalTrials.gov: Dietary FatsFrom the National Institutes of Health(National Institutes of Health)
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Research
- Link Between Omega-6 and Chronic Disease – Does Ancestry Play a Role?From the National Institutes of Health(National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine)
- Omega-3 Fatty Acids and Congestive Heart Failure in Older Adults(American College of Physicians) – PDF
- Omega-3 Fatty Acids May Reduce Inflammation and Anxiety in Healthy Young AdultsFrom the National Institutes of Health(National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine)
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Journal Articles
References and abstracts from MEDLINE/PubMed (National Library of Medicine)
- Article: Fat that's bad for the heart, brain.
- Article: The atherosclerotic risk profile is affected differently by fish flesh…
- Article: Plasma n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids in chronic heart failure in…
- [[@http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=dietary+fats[majr]+AND+humans[mh]+AND+english[la]+AND+(review[pt]+OR+guideline[pt]+OR+clinical+trial[pt]+OR+jsubsetk[text]+OR+patient+education+handout[pt]+OR+systematic[sb])+NOT+(letter[pt]+OR+case+reports[pt]+OR+editorial[pt])+AND+%22last+1+Year%22[edat]&tool=MedlinePlus|Dietary Fats — see more articles]]
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Directories
- Nutrient Lists(Dept. of Agriculture) – PDF
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Organizations
- American Heart Association
- Food and Drug Administration
- Food and Nutrition Information Center
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood InstituteFrom the National Institutes of Health
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Children
- Dietary Fat and Toddlers(American Academy of Pediatrics)
- Fat, Salt and Sugar: Not All Bad(American Academy of Pediatrics)
- Fats and Your Child(Nemours Foundation)
- Learning about Fats(Nemours Foundation)
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Teenagers
- Dietary Fat and Cholesterol(Children's Hospital Boston)
- Figuring Out Fat and Calories(Nemours Foundation)
- Also available in Spanish
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Patient Handouts
- Butter, margarine, and cooking oils
- Also available in Spanish
- Dietary fats explained
- Also available in Spanish
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Related Topics
National Institutes of Health
- The primary NIH organization for research on Dietary Fats is theNational Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
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