A cardiologist explains why this versatile veggie should be a staple in your weekly meals.

The foods you eat—including fats—have a big impact on your blood pressure levels. Foods that are high in saturated fat, for example, can increase levels of low-density lipopro ...

Researchers have developed a technology, FALCON, to analyze the effects of free fatty acids in any cell type, and found type 2 diabetes genes that may further boost diabetes risk when cells are in a ...

Medically reviewed by Sohaib Imtiaz, MD Key Takeaways Walnuts can reduce low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol and are ...

An international team, including scientists from Leipzig University, has gained important new insights into the regulation of food intake in mammals. The study, recently published in the journal ...

Oleic acid [(Z)-9-octadecenoic acid] is a natural monounsaturated fatty acid that exists mostly in triglycerides that make up animal and vegetable oils and fats. One of the most common fatty acids, ...

The previous article described how fatty acids consist of long chains of carbon-carbon bonds, with the carbon mostly “saturated” with hydrogen atoms. When two saturated adjacent carbon atoms exchange ...

Researchers have discovered that different dietary fats may have dramatically different effects on pancreatic cancer, with ...

You can't beat the fact that Indian cuisine is incomplete without ghee. The glory of ghee has been celebrated since the ancient times. Even modern science verifies what Ayurveda said thousands of ...