The benefits of eating good fats can be impaired by stress. New research, published in the Journal of Molecular Psychiatry, highlights how stress alters the body’s inflammation levels. Women were randomly assigned breakfasts made with either saturated or monounsaturated fat. Those who ate breakfasts made with monounsaturated fat, but were stressed the day before, fared the same in blood tests for increased inflammation as though who ate the high saturated fat breakfast.