The Science Of Obesity: Fats & Cholesterol

For years we heard that a low-fat, low-cholesterol diet would keep us healthy and help us lose weight.
And many of us jumped on the bandwagon, eliminating fat and high-cholesterol foods from our diets. Well, unfortunately, we were doing it all wrong.
Instead of eliminating fat completely, we should have been eliminating the ?bad fats,? the fats associated with obesity and heart disease and eating the ?good fats?, the fats that actually help improve blood cholesterol levels.
Before we examine the good fats and bad fats, let?s talk about cholesterol.
Cholesterol - It?s been ingrained into our brains that cholesterol causes heart disease and that we should limit our intake of foods that contain it, but dietary cholesterol is different than blood choleste View the rest of this article