Know Your Fats

Do You know your Healthy Fats from the unhealthy Fats?  Confused and think Fat is Fat?

Regrettably media generally informs us FAT IS BAD!  Ask anyone who knows nutrition will tell you otherwise.  Here is a brief outline and lists of good fats and bad fats.

Good Fats 

 

Fats play many very important role in the human body and an abscence of Fat in you diet can have severe effects.   Healthy fats can be broken into 2 sub categories of monounsaturated and polyunsaturated.  Some of the roles Healthy Fats play is improve nutrient absorption, transport vitamins and minerals through the blood stream, protect the organs, improve brain function and primarily for most aid in the reduction of unwanted unhealthy fats stored in the body.

GOOD FATS
Monounsaturated fat	Polyunsaturated fat
Olive oil Canola oil Sunflower oil Peanut oil Sesame oil Avocados Olives Nuts (almonds, peanuts, macadamia nuts, hazelnuts, pecans, cashews) Peanut butter	Soybean oil Corn oil Safflower oil Walnuts Sunflower, sesame, and pumpkin seeds Flaxseed Fatty fish (salmon, tuna, mackerel, herring, trout, sardines) Soymilk Tofu

Many advise Healthy Fats make up approx 30% of your daily calories.

Now the Bad Fats

And on to bad Fats.  You may think all people in the health profession are a bunch of boring bastards reminding you of your parents, but there are good reasons why we look to minimise the amounts of unhealthy Fats. 

Bad Fats are known as saturated Fats and Trans Fats and these are the fats that carry some sever health risks including Heart disease, cancers of the breast and colon and of course obesity.  Yes you guessed it, its all those foods you want!

BAD FATS
Saturated fat	Trans fat
High-fat cuts of meat (beef, lamb, pork) Chicken with the skin Whole-fat dairy products (milk and cream) Butter Cheese Ice cream Palm and coconut oil Lard	Commercially-baked pastries, cookies, doughnuts, muffins, cakes, pizza dough Packaged snack foods (crackers, microwave popcorn, chips) Stick margarine Vegetable shortening Fried foods (French fries, fried chicken, chicken nuggets, breaded fish) Candy bars

 University of Michigan study suggests you consume less than 10% saturated Fats and just 1% of Trans Fats as part of your daily total calories.

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