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10 tips for incorporating healthy fats into your diet
- Make your own salad dressing with heart-healthy oils, like olive oil, walnut oil or avocado oil. ...
- Stir ground flaxseed into your oatmeal or other cereal, smoothies, yogurt, pancake batter and muffin mix. ...
- Go nuts!
Choose foods with “good” unsaturated fats, limit foods high in saturated fat, and avoid “bad” trans fat. “Good” unsaturated fats — Monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats — lower disease risk. Foods high in good fats include vegetable oils (such as olive, canola, sunflower, soy, and corn), nuts, seeds, and fish.
Use healthy oils to:
- Make your own salad dressings, marinades, dips and sauces.
- Grill, stir-fry, bake or roast foods.
- Coat pans to keep food from sticking.
- Lightly drizzle on foods for flavor.
- “Season” cast-iron cookware.
- Substitute for butter, stick margarine or solid fats.
7 Ways to Add 10 Grams of Healthy Fat to Your Meals
- Drizzle on olive oil. About 2 teaspoons of olive oil = 9-10g. ...
- Add nut butter or nuts. About 4 teaspoons nut butter or ½ ounce (7 pieces) nuts = 10 g. ...
- Melt some cheese. ...
- Spread some avocado. ...
- Top with canned fish. ...
- Sprinkle on seeds. ...
- Up the flavor with olives.
Tips to eat less fat
- compare food labels when you shop so you can choose foods that are lower in fat.
- choose lower-fat or reduced-fat dairy products or dairy alternatives.
- grill, bake, poach or steam food rather than frying or roasting.
- measure oil with a teaspoon to control the amount you use, or use an oil spray.