Fats and oils: What’s the real story?

ZOE Science & Nutrition

Can Fat Ever Be Healthy?

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Can fat be healthy? Absolutely. As we age, does our ability to metabolize high fat foods change? absolutely yes. The evidence in terms of not just obesity, but in terms of many different health outcomes,. ranging from ardvascular disease, typetu diabetes, does not support any favorable effect of having a low fat diet over having a moderate fat diet.

Today we’re talking about fat, a delicious component of our food with a terrible reputation.

Fats have been broadly associated with weight gain and heart disease until recently.

A mountain of new scientific evidence suggests this is wrong and that it's not as simple as ‘all fat is bad’. Indeed, eating more healthy fat might actually reduce heart disease for many people.

In today’s episode, Jonathan speaks to Dr Sarah Berry to learn about what science tells us today, whether it is possible to lose weight on a high-fat diet, what oils we should be cooking with, and the different types of fats.

Dr. Sarah Berry is one of the world's leading experts on human nutrition, who has personally run over 20 randomised clinical trials looking at how humans respond to different fats.

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