The Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC) determined the relationships between saturated fat and cardiovascular disease (CVD) and the roles of dairy, red meat and plant-based oils with findings ...

I often receive notes asking questions about dietary fats, like why is unsaturated fat healthier than saturated fat, and what is trans fat. Good questions, but to answer them I’ll have to first walk ...

Avocado is great, but sometimes you need to branch out.

February is American Heart Month. Like many of you, I do my best to eat healthy and get enough exercise. As I was preparing dinner, I casually made a comment about how the meal I was making was higher ...

For decades, saturated fat was considered unhealthy and eating it was thought to contribute to heart disease. More recently, experts have begun to question whether eating saturated fat is really as ...

Health experts have long recommended limiting it, but Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has signaled a shift in that advice. By Alice Callahan For decades, nutrition experts and health officials have warned ...

When new dietary guidelines for Americans came out in early January, I couldn’t help but notice “healthy fats” at the top of the inverted food pyramid. Like the food pyramid itself, the new guidelines ...