Healthy eating: Cutting unhealthy fats from your diet

Foods like cheese, butter, and sausage are delicious, but they have a lot of saturated fat and cholesterol. Eating too much of these unhealthy fats could lead to high cholesterol and heart disease.

Start with small changes first. Use heart-healthy olive or canola oil instead of butter for cooking. Drink fat-free or low-fat milk instead of whole milk. Pick leaner cuts of meat.

Use this Actionset as a guide for making healthy choices.

 What are the different types of fats?

 Why cut down on unhealthy fats?

 How can you make healthier choices?

 Where do you go from here?

Talk with your doctor

If you have questions about this information, print it out and take it with you when you visit your doctor. You may want to mark areas or make notes in the margins where you have questions.

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