The Importance Of Fats

Certain fats are essential for our overall healthy and well being.

Healthy fats are essential for:

• Maintaining hormone function

• Improving brain function, heart health and immunity

• Reducing cravings and keeping you feeling fuller between meals

• Reducing inflammation within your body

• Helping the body absorb certain nutrients

There are certain types of fats you should avoid such as the fats on meats, butter and cream and the fats in fast foods and baked goods.

You want to try and include whole, unprocessed, high quality fat sources. The healthy fats you should be including in your nutrition are foods such as avocado, nuts, coconut oil, chia seeds, flax seeds, eggs and fish/fish oil.