For centuries, we have been told that low-fat intake is the key to losing weight and a walk down the grocery store deepens our fixation with low-fat foods. We are flooded with supposedly guilt-free options – roasted potato chips, fat-free ice cream, diet biscuits and cakes. But while our low-fat options are infinite, obesity rates have increased!So clearly, low-fat foods and diets have not kept their ‘healthy’ promises.

The solution does not lie in cutting out the fat; it lies in the type of fat you consume which plays an important role. Learning to make healthy substitutes to supplement bad fats with good ones could stimulate health and well-being. Let us look at few of the myths and realities about fats.

• Myth: All fats are alike and equally bad for you.
  Fact: Trans and saturated fats are unhealthy for you because they raise your cholesterol levels and increase your risk for heart disease. Monounsaturated fats and polyunsaturated fats are beneficial for you, lowering cholesterol and reducing your risk of heart disease.
• Myth: Reducing the amount of fat you eat, is what is important.
  Fact: The mix of fats that you eat, moderatelythan the total amount in your diet, is what matters most, both for cholesterol and overall health. The key is to eat more good fats and less bad fats.
• Myth: Vegetable Oil is a healthy fat – Fact: Turning a vegetable into an oil is a highly-involved procedure of bleaching, deodorizing, and handling with chemicals. The resultant oils are high in polyunsaturated fatty acids which are often linked to free radical damage andabating conditions like autoimmune disorders and Alzheimer.
• Myth: All oils are fattening, including olive oil – Fact: Extra virgin olive oil contains some of the highest amounts of monounsaturated fats compared to other oils. These fats essentially help reduce a person’s total cholesterol level and LDL cholesterol level, or bad cholesterol. When used in balance, olive oil provides more health benefits than undesirable health issues.
• Myth: Heating olive oil makes trans-fats – Fact: Heating olive oil in your home kitchen cannot make trans-fats. Trans-fats occur during hydrogenation – a manufacturing procedure where any oil can be turned into a solid fat with intense high heat and pressure.

Good fats or monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats, and Omega-3s have the opposite effect. They play an important role in managing your moods, helping you stay on top of your mental ability, fighting fatigue, controlling your weight, protecting your heart and maintaining your overall health.

Omega 3 fats are a type of vital fatty acid, meaning that they are important for health, but your body cannot make them. You can only get Omega-3 fats from the food you consume. Leonardo Olive oil is excellent for Omega 3 Fats. It is excellent for the brain and heart, to prevent and decrease the symptoms of depression, protect you against memory loss and dementia, reduce the risk of heart disease, stroke, and cancer, ease arthritis, joint pain, and inflammatory skin conditions and support a healthy pregnancy.