And one of the primary messages attached is that fat equals bad, without any nuance. Turns out, that is not necessarily true. In fact, there are three kinds of fat: brown, visceral, and ...

For starters, fat does not come in one singular form but rather can be broken down into four different types—fluffy, fibrous, ...

The unsaturated fats, which are present in food items such as avocados and nuts, are known to be good for heart health.

"Finding these [fat] subtypes is something very surprising," study co-author Esti Yeger-Lotem,a professor of computational biology at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, told Live Science. "This opens ...

Experts claim the real message we should all be heeding is that we need to be eating the right amount of the right type of fats. But what are the right types of fat? And how much should you be eating?

The food we eat contains many different types of fats and oils – collectively known as lipids – and it used to be thought that the main distinction that mattered for our health was whether ...