As you know, fats have made a comeback in the diet in recent years.
And we often hear about “good fats”, but do they really exist?
From the banting diet, a kind of diet based on lipids (instead of carbohydrates), to lose weight, to the paleo diet with meat and fish and oil seeds, to ketogenic diets, fats are experiencing their redemption from a food point of view .

But what are the fats that play a key role in our metabolism?
The answer is not at all what you imagine.

ROLE OF FATS IN HEALTH

In general, fats perform many functions. The first is that they provide more energy than carbohydrates, since one gram of fat provides us with 9 calories. Another important function is that they help us to form cholesterol and therefore also play a hormonal role, since steroid hormones, including sexual ones, will then be formed from cholesterol. Therefore a low fat diet negatively affects the production of estrogen, progesterone and testosterone.
Finally, they allow us to absorb fat-soluble vitamins, including vitamin D and vitamin E which are crucial for good health.

So, let’s learn this first lesson: don’t cut lipids out of your diet.

The second lesson is: it is not true that all fatty foods raise cholesterol.
This does not mean bingeing. But in this article we will see the lipids that must not be missing if we want to have a good metabolism.

GOOD FATS: WHAT ARE THEY REALLY?

The big problem is that healthy fats often mean fats that, on the contrary, are not friends of our health, such as omega6, which we need in minimal quantities, but which we often exceed instead. Omega 6 and omega 3 are very delicate fats, which tend to go rancid easily.

We need both of them because our body is not capable of synthesizing them (essential) but in minimal quantities, that is, only from 6 to 11 grams per day.
So eating too many foods that contain these fats is never a wise thing, even if on the net you will find the opposite advice, due to their chemical instability, and therefore to the high risk that they can develop inflammatory substances or free radicals. For example, it is always better to consume fish that naturally contains omega3 than to take supplements, as it has been found that they are often at risk of becoming rancid.

Then we find the omega9, to be clear the monounsaturated. Even on these, that is on olive oil, avocado, olives, etc., we hear that they are healthy, and in fact many studies correlate them with health benefits, especially in the brain, and are more stable than other omega fats.

However, they should be consumed raw, especially as regards extra virgin olive oil, because these too are delicate fats.

But the real good fats I want to tell you about are others.