Should You Be Cooking With Olive Oil?
Is cooking with olive oil harmful to your health? I used to think so but updated research has shed new light on the topic. Keep…
fats and oils
The Truth About Coconut Oil: Is Coconut Oil Good For You?
How do you use coconut oil? Refined or unrefined? Substitute with coconut oil for baking and cooking? Coconut oil is used for personal care like…
Which Fats Are the Healthiest to Start Your Day With?
If breakfast is the most important meal of the day, what’s the most important part of a healthy breakfast? Making sure what you eat is…
Monday Mission: Refocus on Healthy Fats
Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to check your pantry for industrial oils or trans fats and root out any remaining stragglers. Today…
A Fat Full Fall: Baseline Fats Chart
Want to know what to do with coconut oil? How to substitute one kind of fat for another? Wish you always knew what to do…
Lazy French Fries in Beef Tallow or Coconut Oil Recipe
I’ve got a touch of obsessive-compulsive disorder at times. For example: as a child, every week during the 45-minute drive on the way back from…
Food for Thought: Canola Oil, a Unique Omega-3…Thumbs up or Thumbs Down???
I used to use Canola oil almost exclusively as my liquid fat for baking. The popular press said it was the healthy oil. I felt…
Food for Thought: Are Polyunsaturated Oils Healthy?
Anyone want to disagree with me? Question my research? Please, do. Really. This may sound confrontational at first, but I truly appreciate and welcome those…
Food for Thought: Fat and Your Body
Does the very word, “fat” make you squirm and think of exercise and cellulite? Today I’m practically begging you to release your fear of fat.…
A Fat Full Fall: Introduction
Does it ever drive you nuts that candy companies will slap a “Fat Free!” label on their packages, tempting sorry dieters to indulge in a…
How to Use and Store Flax Seeds and Flax Oil
We know flax has heart-healthy omega-3 fats, and even though they’re not as power-packed as salmon (and have some side effects), it’s still not a…
Food for Thought: Power-Packed Omega-3 Fats in Salmon and Flax
Last week we focused on Super Foods with monounsaturated fat, and this week we’re going to learn about two Super Foods that are stars in…
Monday Mission: Search Out Trans Fats
The FDA actually FINALLY made a final call regarding trans fat in Sept 2017: FDA update from 9/29/17 FDA update from 2015 – “trans fat” has officially been…