Fats are one of the three macronutrients our bodies need to function properly. Fats provide 9 calories per gram, which is more than double the amount of calories per gram for both carbohydrates and proteins. For this reason, fats are often seen as harmful; however, fat has several beneficial functions in the body. Essential fatty acids are needed for structure and proper function in almost all cells, for example, neuronal cells, red blood cells, white blood cells, endothelial

In the 1990’s Americans latched onto a low-fat diet in response to research that indicated that reducing dietary fat would be the magic bullet we had been searching for in our quest for weight loss. What we failed to do as a society was recognize the difference between saturated fats, unsaturated fat and trans fat. Instead, the food companies created many low-fat or no-fat foods and hit the marketing scene hard with the message that fat is bad. In the presence of low-fat and