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Healthy Sizzle: Choosing the Best Fats for Cooking

Analysis by Ashley Armstrong

best fats for cooking

Story at-a-glance

  • Modern Western diets have shifted dramatically from traditional saturated fats to polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) from vegetable oils, triggering metabolic slowdown and increased fat storage

Which gut bacteria are associated with breaking down cholesterol and reducing its accumulation in the body?

  • Clostridium sp CAG_299
  • Oscillibacter species

    Oscillibacter species produce enzymes that facilitate cholesterol metabolism, reducing both fecal and plasma cholesterol levels. Learn more.

  • Eubacterium rectale
  • Lactobacillus acidophilus

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