Fats and Oils

Palm kernel oil is trans-fat-free and 80 percent saturated fat when unmodified, according most experts saturated fat increases LDL in the blood, which is the bad cholesterol. However, excessive accumulation of LDL in the artery walls could trigger inflammation and destroy the heart and arteries, which may eventually cause heart attack or

In order to improve the individual’s diet I made sure to eliminate vegetable oil because there has been recent evidence conducted that any amount vegetable oil, is unhealthy for our body. As it the polyunsaturated fats in vegetable oil can cause many health problems, including heart disease.

Saturated fats were said to be linked to health risks that are detrimental to society as a whole. These health risks include the development of heart disease and type II diabetes

fats. This diet also proves problematic in that most foods advertised as ‘low fat’ are often very

Unsaturated fatty acids are characterized with having at least one carbon double bonded with another carbon, losing the normal bond with hydrogen and the corresponding hydrogen. The number of double bonds, hydrogens, and carbons differ in structure of different types of fatty acids and cause the difference in function between the fatty acids. But even though most fatty acids are different from each other due to structure and function, all unsaturated fatty acids do have some things in common. They all enter the cell via the membrane and increase the fluidity of the plasma membrane, increasing overall cell health, and they all form unsaturated fats [3]. Unsaturated fats are made up of many different strands of different types of fatty acid. The type of unsaturated fatty acid I will be talking about today is an omega-3 fatty acid made up of three different types of fatty

Saturated fats are most commonly found in meats, Haigh fat dairy products, and some plant based oils. While the majority of these items can be good for you, over consumption can increase your risk factors for chronic illness. Choose to eat all of these items in moderation to help reduce your risk factors. Even the healthiest of foods can fall into the category or of unhealthy if they are consumed in high quantities.

A Guide to Fats and Oils: Again with information on what is good and what to avoid.

In the early 1900s, dietary fat was viewed simply as a source of calories, interchangeable with carbohydrates. But in 1929 and 1930, George and Mildred Burr discovered that fatty acids were critical to health through punctilious analyses of rats fed special diets. If fatty acids were missing in the diet, a deficiency syndrome ensued and often led to death (Asbmb.org. 2016). Fatty acids rarely occur as free molecules in nature but are usually found as components of many complex lipid molecules such as fats and phospholipids. Biological fatty acids are composed only of hydrocarbon chain which is carbon, hydrogen and oxygen in the proportion of 76%, 12.6% and 11.3% respectively with one terminal carboxyl group (COOH). Fatty acids are aliphatic

Also it is important on where the fat is carried on the body that contribe to health problems. Belly fat for example is stored deep below the skin, causing it to be surrounded by the organs and liver. Saturated and trans fats are big ones to try and avoid. These types of fats are known to increase the risk of diseses and high cholesterol. Foods that include Saturated fats tend to be, cuts of meat like beef and pork, chicken but with the skin, whole-fat dairy products, butter, cheese, palm/coconut oil and many more. Trans fat foods include things like, baked goods, margarine, fried foods, potato chips, etc. Knowing the type of "bad fat" to look out for is important, but so is knowing what the "good fats" are. Monounsturated fats are found in olive/canola/sunflower/peanut/sesame oils, Avocados, olives and nuts. There is also Polyunsaturated fats that include, Soybean/corn/safflower oils, walnuts, Seeds such as sunflower, sesame, pumpkin and flaxseeds, fatty fish like salmon and tuna, soymilk and tofu. These types of fats have heath benifits because they are good for the heart and also cholesterol. Fats disgest differently than the other molecules dessuted earlier, because the fat does not dissolve into the the disgestive juices. Bile which is produced by the liver but is stored in the gallbladder, are able to attach to the fat molcules and break it up into smaller particles, but lipase which is a fat-disgesting enzyme can break it down. It gets broke down into fatty acids and chlesterol which are then absorbed through the intestinal wall to the bloodstream. The fat is then stored in the body to be used as energy when it is

Trans fatty acids is a kind of unsaturated fatty acid, and it is called trans-fat when it is combined with glycerin. Trans-fats are divided two kinds that are Naturally-occurring trans-fats and artificial trans-fats. Artificial trans-fats are made when hydrogen is added to vegetable oils. In November 2013, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said that it is not safety when people use partially hydrogenated oils in food.

My passion for nutrition is greatly entangled with chemistry. All food is made up of molecules. The chemical structure is important, and the way a molecule interacts with other molecules sheds light on how and why our bodies function the way they do, especially in regards to nutrition. Trans fats are a good example of the necessary understanding of chemical structure, without this knowledge the effects of trans fats on the body would not be understood. Trans fats have no nutritional value and are harmful to the body even in small quantities. There are three things that are imperative to understand when looking at trans fats from a nutritional stand point: what are trans fats, why are trans fats so bad for you, and how to avoid trans fats.

I can replace butter when cooking with oils such as sunflower oil or canola oil, which are much lower in cholesterol.

A molecule of dietary fat typically consists of several fatty acids (containing long chains of carbon and hydrogen atoms), bonded to a glycerol. They are typically found as triglycerides (three fatty acids attached to one glycerol backbone). Fats may be classified as saturated or unsaturateddepending on the detailed structure of the fatty acids involved. Saturated fats have all of the carbon atoms in their fatty acid chains bonded to hydrogen atoms, whereas unsaturated fats have some of these carbon atoms double-bonded, so their molecules have relatively fewer hydrogen atoms than a saturated fatty acid of the same length. Unsaturated fats may be further classified as monounsaturated (one double-bond) or polyunsaturated (many double-bonds). Furthermore, depending on the location of the double-bond in the fatty acid chain, unsaturated fatty acids are classified as omega-3 or omega-6 fatty acids. Trans fats are a type of unsaturated fat with trans-isomer bonds; these are rare in nature and in foods from natural sources; they are typically created

More and more research studies are finding that getting enough Omega-3 fatty acids is critical to our health in many ways. Omega-3 fats are essential for the survival of the human body, but our bodies can't manufacture them on their own, so we need to get them from the foods we eat. Good dietary sources of Omega-3 fatty acids are fish and seafood, like salmon, tuna, sardines, halibut, herring, algae and krill, plus some plants and nut oils such as flaxseeds and flaxseed oil, canola oil, soybeans and soybean oil, pumpkin seeds and pumpkin seed oil, purslane, perilla seed oil, and walnuts and walnut oil.

My saturated fats were labeled as “ok”, so I ate the recommended amount. Trans fats are fats that were hydrogenated so the product can last longer. It's found in things like margarine, cakes, fries, etc. It is recommended to eat as little amount of saturated fats as possible because they cause heart disease.