When we eat a lot of high fat foods, we get a lot of calories.
With too many calories, we may gain weight.
Eating too much fat may also increase the risk of getting diseases like cancer, heart disease, high blood pressure or stroke.
Health experts recommend that we should get no more than 30% of our calories from fat to reduce our risk of getting these diseases.

Fat is found in many foods.
Some of the fat that we eat comes from the fat we add in cooking or spread on breads,
vegetables or other foods.
A lot of fat is hidden in foods that we eat as snacks, pastries or prepared meals.

We can reduce the amount of fat we eat by cutting down on the fat that we add in cooking or spread on foods.
We can eat skim milk and low fat cheeses instead of whole milk and cheese.
We can also use less fat, oil, butter, and margarine.
Another way to cut down on fat is to drain and trim meats and take the skin off poultry.
We can also read labels and compare the amount of fat in foods to make lower fat choices.