Afraid Of Fats?
We are deathly afraid of fats, thanks to the 1980′s and terrible pasta diets.It is all about fat loss. Let me first say one thing: fats are not bad. What makes people scared of fat is that fat contains 9 calories per gram. So if you eat 1000 grams of food a day, and all of it is from fats, you’ll be eating 9000 calories a day, whereas if you eat all of it from carbohydrates, you’ll be eating 4000 calories per day. However, no one eats a serving of butter the same size as a serving of pasta. That’s unreasonable and stupid. So there is no reason to fear fats, because we don’t eat as much of them!
Fat, in fact, has many values.Know though that fat that burns fat is a good thing. First of all, it is good for your heart, joints, and brain. It keeps your digestive track lubricated. It can be made into hormones. And best of all, when your body is making energy from glucose, it needs fats to provide the enzymes to complete that energy cycle. So you can’t burn fats without fats.
What many people fear about fats is other micronutrients found in foods that contain lots of fats, like cholesterol and sodium. The key is to understand that there are different sorts of fats, and knowing these sorts of fats will help you to choose fats without bad side effects.
There are unsaturated fats and saturated fats. A fat, also known as a lipid, looks sort of like a two-tailed sperm. Each of the “tails” of the fat is a long chain of carbon atoms. The more hydrogen atoms that are bonded to these carbon atoms, the more “saturated” a fat is.
