Choosing Healthy Fats : Good Fats-Bad Fats

Some fats are essential to your health and even help to reduce inflammation and to lose weight: they are a bit 'like oil for a motor, make it smoothly and efficiently the body. To do some 'clarity, we know the so-called "good fats".
Omega-3 polyunsaturated fats

These fatty acids are potent anti-inflammatory and are considered the most important among the good fats. Our power it has become poor because they are fats found mainly in natural foods, such as in many fish (salmon, mackerel, sardines), flax seed, nuts and other seeds.

 monounsaturated fat

These fats are found mainly in olive oil, but also in almonds, Brazil nuts, cashews in, avocado and some seeds. This category of fats has healthy metabolic effects, such as lowering cholesterol and blood glucose.

Some saturated fats

Most of the saturated fat content in cheese and meat is not healthy. However, a minimal amount of saturated fats, egg from foods like coconut, can be useful. These sources are rich in la uric acid, which, together with the Omega-3, is an important component of the central nervous system.

Some polyunsaturated fatty acids Omega 6

In low doses, some polyunsaturated fatty acids, omega-6 are useful, because it can also produce the anti-inflammatory substances . However, be careful not to take these fats from refined sources such as commercial vegetable oils. Appropriate sources, if taken in small doses, are the sesame oil, sunflower oil, walnut oil and safflower, obviously cold pressed.

But remember to stay away from hydrogenated fats, refined polyunsaturated fatty acids and not cold-pressed vegetable oils and the saturated fatty acids present in beef, in lamb, cheese, milk and derivatives.