Why Do You Need Monounsaturated Fats

Because monounsaturated fat is lowers the “bad” cholesterol levels, it may assist in reducing heart disease. Adding monounsaturated fats to your diet shouldn’t be difficult as they are found in natural foods like canola, olive, and peanut oils, as well as most nuts, and certain cold water fish species such salmon, halibut, mackerel, and rainbow trout. They are also the main component of tea seed oil and olive oil. Most monounsaturated fats are rich in Vitamin E. Fat helps the body absorb fat-soluble nutrients such as vitamins A, D, E, and K. If you live long enough on the planet Earth, you KNOW Vitamin E is an anti-oxidant vitamin and is called the youth vitamin.

Monounsaturated fats are at the center of the popular Mediterranean diet in those countries heart disease, bowel and breast cancer are less likely than the other parts of the Western world. Those fats are more stable than polyunsaturated fats, so they can tolerate higher temperatures for cooking.