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How to include the right fats in your diet

 Choosing the right fats to include in your diet can seem like a minefield.

Conflicting reports about whether it's best to eat butter or margarine and which fats are best to cook with only make matters worse.

Here is our at-a-glance guide to how to choose the right fats in your diet.

Which foods contain the fats I need?
Even armed with the knowledge of which fats are healthiest it can often be hard to know which foods to find them in. This is complicated by the fact that all fats contain some proportion of the different types - healthy and unhealthy.

There are some general rules you can stick to though. Processed foods contain more unhealthy fats, so the fewer you eat the better. Switching to lower fat versions of dairy products will also help you to reduce the amounts of unhealthy saturated fats in your diet. Trimming fat from meats will also help to reduce your levels of saturated fats.

You should also try to include three portions of oily fish such as tuna, salmon, herring, mackerel and trout in your diet each week as these all contain excellent amounts of Omega 3 fatty acids - essential fats which researchers now believe can lower our chances of cancer and heart disease. For more ideas of the foods containing healthy fats click on the picture gallery further up this page.

Butter v margarine - which should you choose?
One of the biggest areas of confusion is which type of fat spread we should choose. In the 70s we were told to switch from butter - a saturated fat - to margarines. But recent research into the way some margarines are made has cast doubt on whether these spreads are really any healthier.

'Scientists have now discovered that the process involved in making many hard margarines now makes them even less healthy than saturated fats,' says Judith Wills, nutrition expert and author of several books including the Food Bible and the Diet Bible. 'So some margarines are now really no healthier than butter.' According to Judith the best spread of all to choose is margarine made with olive oil because it is high in monounsaturated fats.

If you don't like these spreads Judith advises avoiding hard margarines and to check the label of the margarine you are using for trans fats. Not all labels include this information so if in doubt always go for a good quality product as these are less likely to contain trans fats.

Fats for cooking
Some fats become less healthy when they are heated because they become more easily oxidised by the body - which increases the risk of cancers and other health problems. The oils that are affected by this process when used in cooking are polyunsaturates - vegetable oils such as corn oil, safflower oil, sunflower oil and walnut oil. For better health try to switch to monounsaturated oils for cooking such as olive oil, groundnut oil and rapeseed oil.

The Food Bible, by Judith Wills contains more information about healthy fats and other healthy eating habits. The book is available in all good bookshops priced £10.99