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fats
Fats are also an important part of our diet. Many foods
contain fat in different amounts. High-fat foods include* dairy products like butter and cream as well as mayonnaise and oils. There are two kinds of fats: saturated and unsaturated. Saturated fats are normally solid at room temperature, while unsaturated fats are liquid at room temperature. Vegetable oils are the best examples of unsaturated fats, while lard and shortening (along with the animal fat you see in raw meat) are saturated fats. We can further distinguish the unsaturated fats between polyunsaturated and monounsaturated. Unsaturated fats are currently thought to be more healthy than saturated fats, and monounsaturated fats (as found in olive oil and peanut oil) are thought to be healthier than polyunsaturated fats. Fat is necessary because: the only way to get certain fat-soluble vitamins is to eat fat, your body has no way to* make certain essential fats, so you must get them in your food. Another reason is that fat is a good source of energy, in fact it contains twice as many calories per gram as do carbohydrates or proteins. Your body can burn fat as fuel when necessary |
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mattbma wrote:
Fats are also an important part of our diet. And they can be stored in people's heads, as you demonstrate. Pastorio |
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