Answer To Your Fitness Questions" />Is Fat Good Or Just Bad?
July 26, 2007
This very last macronutrient and the least understood is fat. All the misinformation to date has a huge part in the obesity and diabetes problem we have today. We need to take in fats to supply us with essential fatty acids, which have an important role in good healthy functioning immune systems. It supplies us with energy, hormones, keeping the blood sugar level and also controlling hunger.
Even though there is a lot of disagreements by the scientists as to what percentage of fat is the best for a healthy diet, studies do show eating the monosaturated fats that come from olive oil, macadamia nuts and avocados have great health benefits. The scientists do agree, however, that the fats coming from hydrogenated oils or even partially hydrogenated oils, such as margarine and shortening is very damaging to health. They accelerate aging because we lack the enzyme that it takes to break it down. We don’t want that do we?
Fats add flavor to foods and texture. Fats do slow down the rate of absorption of sugar in the blood stream. Remember dietary fats do not turn into body fat because fats do not simulate insulin production. Anything that slows the uptake of insulin, the fat sorage hormone, is great for weight loss.
So don’t be scared off by fats!!!
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Great news….I LOVE LOVE LOVE avocados.
PS Come back to us at the RB we miss you at kickboxing!
Me too, so grateful they are so good for us!! Missed you last night Lauren!!