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Even one meal with saturated fat is bad for your heart

Posted on Sep 11th 2007 6:05PM by Rigel Celeste
I hate news like this, I really do. I'm doing my best, along with everybody else, to live a better healthier life and avoid as many processed and saturated fats as I can. That's good, right? Well now experts are saying it's not good enough.

Even one meal high in unhealthy fats can get in the way of how well the good cholesterol works in your body and it can inhibit your blood vessels from expanding the way they're supposed to during periods of physical activity. Ideally you should avoid saturated fats altogether, but considering they're found everywhere limiting them to just 10% of your total daily calories is a good rule of thumb.

And FYI, softserve ice cream is apparently one of the worst offenders. (Damn!)

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