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Making the New Dietary Guidelines a Part of Your Life: Choosing Fats

This is the 5th post on how to make the 2015-2020 Dietary Guideline’s Key Recommendations a part of your life. This post will help you choose healthy fats. Fats are discussed in the “limits” of the Dietary Guidelines, saying “a healthy eating pattern limits saturated fats and trans fats…” However, the guidelines also state a healthy eating pattern should […]

WRITTEN BY: Shawna Hite, Healthy People Program Specialist, OSU Extension Family & Consumer Sciences

REVIEWED BY: Barb Hennard, Extension Educator, OSU Exntesion Family & Consumer Sciences

PHOTO CREDITS:

  • American Heart Association (2014). Fats: The good, the bad, the ugly. Retrieved from: http://www.heart.org/idc/groups/heart-public/@wcm/@fc/documents/downloadable/ucm_469423.pdf

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Reducing Saturated Fat in Your Diet But Still Eating Meat

The 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines recommend we reduce the saturated fat in our diet.  This usually means limiting your intake of red meat, which is high in saturated fat. The problem with saturated fat is it raises our blood cholesterol level, especially the LDL (bad) cholesterol  increasing our risk of heart disease and stroke.  However, many […]

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