Less eating healthy fats in fact just as dangerous to consume too much saturated or trans fats. Fill in a study recently released in the Journal of the American Heart Association.
Encourage people to eat healthy fats like those found in olive oil or fish may help prevent more than one million deaths from heart disease worldwide each year, according to the researchers.
In fact, the number of deaths from heart disease because of the lack of healthy fat intake is almost three times greater than the number of deaths due to excessive intake of saturated fat.
Saturated fats are commonly found in fatty meats, cheese, other dairy products, as well as palm and coconut oil.
"For decades we have focused on reducing saturated fat in an effort to prevent heart disease, but we found that in most countries, the intake of too little healthy fat is a big problem, bigger than too much intake of saturated fat," said study author Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian, of the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, Boston.
In the study, researchers looked at data intake of food and the death rate from heart disease of 186 countries in 2010.
Encourage people to eat healthy fats like those found in olive oil or fish may help prevent more than one million deaths from heart disease worldwide each year, according to the researchers.
In fact, the number of deaths from heart disease because of the lack of healthy fat intake is almost three times greater than the number of deaths due to excessive intake of saturated fat.
Saturated fats are commonly found in fatty meats, cheese, other dairy products, as well as palm and coconut oil.
"For decades we have focused on reducing saturated fat in an effort to prevent heart disease, but we found that in most countries, the intake of too little healthy fat is a big problem, bigger than too much intake of saturated fat," said study author Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian, of the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, Boston.
In the study, researchers looked at data intake of food and the death rate from heart disease of 186 countries in 2010.
