Good Fat Consumption Lower Risk of Heart Disease Deaths

Consuming less healthy fats in fact just as dangerous to consume too much saturated or trans fats. Encourage people to eat healthy fats like those found in olive oil or fish may help prevent more than one million deaths from heart disease worldwide each year. According to the researchers the number of deaths from heart disease because of the lack of healthy fat intake is almost three times greater than the number of deaths due to excessive intake of saturated fat. Saturated fats are commonly found in fatty meats, cheese, other dairy products, as well as palm and coconut oil.

For decades we have focused on reducing saturated fat in an effort to prevent heart disease, but we found that in most countries, the intake of too little healthy fat is a big problem, bigger than too much intake of saturated fat, "said study author Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian, of the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, Boston.

In the study, researchers looked at data intake of food and the death rate from heart disease of 186 countries in 2010. They estimate that 711 800 deaths, or about 10.3 percent of deaths from heart disease in the world is because people eat too little healthy fat called "omega-6 polyunsaturated.

By comparison, only about a third of the 250 900 deaths, or about 3.6 percent of deaths worldwide are due to heart disease as people who eat too much saturated fat, the reason why so many deaths could be prevented by increasing the intake of healthy fats is due to the increased health derived from omega-6 polyunsaturated fats, such as "instead of eating two slices of bread, you should eat half a piece of bread and lots of olive oil or nuts," said Mozaffarian.

The researchers also found that 537 200 deaths in 2010 were due to excessive intake of trans fats, including fat from foods in processed, baked and fried foods. When the researchers looked at patterns of deaths jantungdari time to time, they discovered that the number of deaths from heart disease because of inadequate intake of omega-6 polyunsaturated declined 9 percent between 1990 and 2010.

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