Fat is a major
nutrient essential to your body. It supplies
you with more energy and helps maintain various
body functions. Fats come from both animals
and vegetables. They help to make our food
palatable. They also carry fat-soluble
vitamins A, D, E and K, as well as fatty
acids, which are broken down to release
energy and rebuild cell structure in your
bodies.
Fats are related to cellulite which is
basically ordinary fat. Women are prone to
cellulite because the female hormone
oestrogen makes them acquire fat, which
tends to be stored under the skin's surface.
Cellulite is a natural characteristic of the
female body. It is not the build-up of
toxins and impurities in the body as some
believe.
What does my body need more - fat,
carbohydrates or protein? Carbohydrates, fat and protein are
three different types of nutrients. They
pack different amounts of energy within them
and are converted to calories via different
biochemical pathways. To stay healthy, 55 to
65 per cent of the energy from food needed
to maintain basic bodily functions should
come from carbohydrates, 20 to 30 per cent
from fat, and the remaining 10 to 15 per
cent from protein.
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What
do you mean by 'Calorie'?
A calorie is a measure of energy. It is the
unit of measurement used to indicate the
amount of energy in food and used by the
body.
Is there 'good' fat and 'bad' fat? All types of fat are equally high
in calories. Excessive consumption of fat
can result in obesity and increased health
risks.
There are four
types of fat in food:
Saturated
Polyunsaturated
Mono-unsaturated
Trans fat.
Saturated
fat and Trans fat can be considered 'bad'
because these raise blood cholesterol when
taken in excess. This increases the risk of
developing heart disease and stroke. Foods
high in saturated fat include meat, butter,
coconut cream and vegetable oil blended with
palm oil. Foods high in Trans fat include
hard margarine, pastries, ice-creams and
biscuits.
Replacing saturated fat in the diet with
polyunsaturated fat and mono-unsaturated fat
may help to lower blood cholesterol. For
this reason, polyunsaturated and
mono-unsaturated fat can be considered
'good' fat.
Foods high in polyunsaturated fat include
margarine and vegetable oils such as corn
oil, soy bean oil and sunflower oil, and
fatty fish like salmon and mackerel. Foods
high in mono-unsaturated fat include olive
oil, canola oil, groundnut oil and avocado.
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Weight Loss Facts:
Low
Fat Foods DON'T WORK.
You cannot lose
weight using Low Fat Diets. Low fat
foods have been popular for more than
10 years, but yet our society is
getting more over-weight as each year
passes. This fact alone
should tell you that eating a purely
low fat menu is definitely not the
answer to losing weight.
Low Calorie
Diets DON'T WORK.
You will not lose
weight using a Low Calorie Dieting
Plan either. In fact, eating low
calories is the worst thing that you
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only slow down your body's fat burning
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weight (low calorie diets may allow a
few pounds of weight loss for the
first few days, but then after that
all weight loss comes to a halt
--- known as a dieting plateau).
You will never get slim by starving
yourself.
Low Carb
Plans DON'T WORK.
You will probably
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Low carb diets have recently become
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for very long. This is why so
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