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Healthy Fats Demystified: What's on Your Plate? 🥑🍳

23 Sept 2024 · 1 min

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Short educational video by Dr. Tabatha Barber explaining types of dietary fats. The speaker defines saturated fats (solid at room temperature; examples: butter, lard), monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats (liquid at room temperature; example: olive oil), and warns that industrial trans fats are man-made, used in processed foods for shelf stability, and are harmful (toxic, inflammatory). The clip emphasizes that fat type matters for health.

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When we talk about eating fats, we want to focus on healthy fats. There's saturated fats, which means at room temperature, it's a solid, like butter, like lard. Monounsaturated fats, polyunsaturated fats, those are liquids at room temperature, like olive oil, things like that. And then you get into trans fats, which are a man made version that are used in processed foods to stabilize and give shelf preservation. But those are very toxic and inflammatory, and so it really does matter the types of fats that you're having.