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Dr. Alice Lichtenstein discusses the impact of dietary fats on heart health and provides practical food swaps to lower cholesterol.

Is fat good or bad for your heart? For decades, we blamed fat and cholesterol for clogged arteries and heart attacks. Now you choose low-fat yogurt to protect your heart, while others cook with beef tallow. In this episode, Dr. Alice Lichtenstein, a world-leading expert on dietary fat and heart health, helps settle the debate. Dr. Lichtenstein explains which fats protect your heart and which to cut back on, you'll learn what raises your cholesterol, and why the type of fat you eat matters more than how much of it you eat. You’ll leave the episode with some practical food swaps to protect your heart and live longer. Have you swapped butter for "low-fat" alternatives loaded with sugar? Could that choice be working against your heart? 🌱 Try our science-backed and tasty wholefood supplement Daily30 🌿Let your gut microbes snack on the ZOE Gut Health Bar Build healthy habits. Download the ZOE app today and start your trial for just £2.30 for your first week. 👉 Join ZOE Follow ZOE on Instagram. Timecodes 00:00 Intro 01:33 The most common myth about fat, busted in one word 03:20 What fat actually is, and why your body needs it to survive 11:29 Why butter and beef tallow turn solid at…

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Host: ZOE

Guest: Dr. Alice Lichtenstein

Topics covered

• cholesterol
• heart health
• dietary fat
• food swaps
• nutrition

Keywords

• cholesterol
• heart disease
• dietary fat
• food swaps
• nutrition advice

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