Don’t Fear the Fat! Why Your Body Needs Healthy Fats

Fat. That single word evokes a sense of panic in many. Don’t eat the fat! Buy the low-fat—always! But times they are a-changin’, kind of. And when it comes to high-quality, nutritious and natural fats (read: the stuff that comes from the earth and not the packaged, processed kinds), they are nothing to be afraid [...]

Are You Eating Enough Good Fats? A Buttery Review of Melt Organic Spread

For years, we’ve been trained to stay away from fat for our health. After all, you’d think that eating fat makes you fat (I still hate that word as a descriptor…). But the nutrition and health community has finally learned through research that that simply isn’t true. In fact, the right kinds of fat in [...]

Stick to Fashion, Karl

I was a bit annoyed recently when I saw Chanel bigwig Karl Lagerfeld’s comments on the singer Adele being “a little too fat.” If you haven’t been keeping track, he made the comments about the singing sensation before removing his foot from his mouth, apologizing and trying to make it right. Now, he’s saying that [...]

What Happens to Unused Muscle? Does It Turn into Fat?

We’ve heard a lot of readers ask—and read a lot of misinformation on the web—about the fate of unused muscle. Does unused muscle turn to fat? Does it just go away? Does it leave weaker or stronger than before? Well, we recently got this good info from the fitness experts at Life Fitness. Read on [...]

What Type of Fat Do You Use When Cooking?

A few days ago we looked at the pros and cons of butter versus margarine and buttery spreads. Which got us thinking about fat—dietary fat, that is. And you know what? Dietary fat seriously rocks. While you obviously don’t want to go overboard on it, healthy fats are an essential part of a healthy diet [...]