Dietary fats play different roles in human health. Some fats provide necessary energy and support cell function. Others ...

Coconut and olive oil are both plant-based fats. However, they differ in the types of fats they contain, which affects how ...

The findings suggest certain less-refined types retain more bioactive lipids, including FAHMFAs and LNAPEs, that may support ...

Fats, in addition to protein and carbohydrates, are an important part of your diet. Here's how to eat them in a healthy way.

When you think about the objectively healthy foods that are part of a good diet, you’ll come up with things like lean meats ...

For practical dietary purposes, fats include visible animal fats, oils rendered from those fats (e.g., lard from pork and ...

Fat has been a dietary villain for decades. Because saturated fat, in particular, was found to raise cholesterol levels and thereby increase heart disease risk, and too much fat had been linked to an ...

If you eat more artery-clogging, saturated fats, you'll likely have a higher risk of heart disease. That's well documented. But simply cutting saturated fats isn't enough — if you also eat more ...

New research shows that the types of fats we eat, like those in cooking oils, might influence the rate at which cancer cells ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Noma Nazish writes about actionable ways to live well. For years, fat had been shunned as a pariah of the food groups. All fatty ...

WASHINGTON — You may not even know you are eating them, but trans fats will soon be mostly gone from your food. The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday it will require food companies to phase ...