Eat and Lose Body Fat, Nutritional Facts About Fat
Jan 31st, 2009 by Ricardo d Argence
Anywhere you look; today you can find someone offering to sell you the latest fat loss plan or gizmo. From pills and shakes too little electro attachments all aimed at one thing the fat on your body. Sounds good, right? Eradicate fat from our bodies by burning it off or eliminating it from our diets. The problem is there is actually some fat that we need in order to remain healthy the body has a required fat content and consumption. Yes, you heard correctly.
Although everyone is going crazy trying to lose a huge a mount of weight, we can’t lose sight of the fact that in small amounts fat is part of a healthy diet. The purpose of fat cells is to help regulate hormonal levels, furnish energy sources, as well as provide cushioning for the body’s internal organs. The problem then is not in the presence of fat but the amount. The three-percent threshold, when crossed, signals a dangerous situation to vital parts of the body.
When you eat there are two types of fat that you will consume. You can choose to either eat good fats or bad ones. Polyunsatured and mono-unsaturated rank among the good fats, while saturated and trans fats are harmful to the body. The latter we need to avoid while the former is an essential part of a balanced diet. The body is unable to manufacture its things like omega 3 fatty acids are essential to the human body however. Therefore, we must get it from our diet.
You should be familiar with the kinds of fat contained in different foods in order to get the good fats your body needs. Examples of good fat foods are nuts, avocados, sunflower seeds and fish oil.
The kind of fat you should avoid will be contained in deep fat fried foods and heavily preserved foods. A short list of examples would look something like eggs, cheese, french fries and potato chips. When we eat high levels of saturated or tran’s fats we can run into health problems in a hurry.
Tran’s fats tend to have a doubly bad effect on the body, it increases the amounts of bad cholesterol in the body while at the same time lowering the good cholesterol.
So on top of adding weight to your midsection you can see that the storage of fat can have an adverse effect on your health. Along with high cholesterol, you are flirting with the possibility of diabetes, stroke, and heart attack. The short answer is cut back on the bad fats, exercise more and you will lower you risk of these and other health problems.
