Understand Your Fats and Fiber Jennifer Taylor SCI/241 December 6‚ 2012 Jeff Mundt Understand Your Fats and Fiber Bad fats are saturated and trans fats. Saturated fats are mostly in meats‚ dairy products and tropical oils. Saturated fat raises both bad cholesterol and good cholesterol‚ while trans-fat only raises bad cholesterol. This makes trans fats technically worse than saturated fats. The better fats would be monounsaturated and polyunsaturated. Monounsaturated will lower your cholesterol
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factors for coronary artery disease in adolescence‚ researchers found. More Video Watch: Childhood Obesity: What Parents Need to Know Watch: Is Pregnancy Weight Gain Dangerous For Child? Watch: Is This Your Child’s School Lunch? Those with a greater BMI between ages 9 and 12 were more likely to have high blood pressure‚ high levels of LDL cholesterol -- the so-called bad cholesterol -- and triglycerides‚ and insulin resistance at ages 15 or 16‚ Dr. Debbie Lawlor of the University of
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Fat Soluble Vitamins and the Body Humans need a number of vitamins in their body to survive. A group of the vitamins needed for vitality include the fat soluble vitamins‚ which includes vitamins A‚ D‚ E‚ and K. Deficiency in these vitamins is rare‚ but rather‚ over consumption is the problem often associated with these vitamins. Fat soluble vitamins are vitamins that are stored in fatty tissues and in the liver. These vitamins‚ unlike water soluble vitamins‚ are stored for long periods of
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In the article “Big fat tax is no gut buster” author Susie O’brien attacking the new tax on the fast food industry. By the opening slogan‚ “DON’T tax the big mac” she asserts her position on the tax. Written in bold the slogan immediately catches the eye and as it cleverly rhymes is very memorable. The author continues in cementing her standing on the issue by saying that a junk food tax is not the answer and the rhetorical question that‚ “why should reducing our weight start with our wallets?” Her
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“Dieting Makes People Fat” Shah Zaman Period: 5 Mrs. Greene 11/04/14 People try different dieting plans every day. They spend hundreds of dollars every day trying to lose weight. Throw away your meal replacements and dieting supplements. New study shows that dieting makes you fat. You’re actually spending more money dieting then eating normal meals. But this could be a really bad crash for companies that produce dieting supplements. This could also turn out bad for gyms and other workout facilities
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Shawn Wells‚ R.D. with Tim Skwiat‚ Pn1 2 8 “Healthy” Foods That Cause Flab If we were to ask you to define what it means to eat healthy or what constitutes a healthy diet‚ what thoughts‚ principles‚ and rules would come to mind? Is it a certain number of meals per day? Is it a specific number of grams of fat or carbohydrates? Is a low-fat or a low-carbohydrate diet better? Does it involve eliminating certain types of foods (e.g.‚ gluten‚ dairy‚ sugar)? Does it involve counting grams of sugar
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Millions of people are for low fat diets because..... One of the major benefits of a low fat diet is the potential for cutting back on calories in an attempt to better manage your weight. Foodnetwork.com says since fat serves up more than double the amount of calories per gram (9 calories per gram) as compared to carbohydrates and protein (4 calories per gram each)‚ cutting back on fat‚ theoretically‚ will provide you with more caloric trimming for your efforts. For example‚ dousing your dinner salad
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Dieting Makes People Fat A lot of people strongly believe that they have to starve themselves in order to reduce their weight. In fact‚ it is true that it may help them to reduce some ounces in a few days. However‚ dieting with an expectation of getting quick results is most likely to have serious consequences as rapid weight loss is not sustainable (FoodTalk‚ n.d.). The outcome of dieting is not just weight loss alone. Several other things also happen in the body when the energy intake of a person
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Body Fat and Eating Disorders Whether you are overweight or of normal body weight you should know the impact of body composition on your health. Even if your scale weight is normal‚ you can still have unhealthy or altered body compositions. Generally speaking‚ it refers to carrying too much or excess body fat in comparison too lean muscle mass. If your body fat-to-lean ratio increases‚ so does your health risks. More often than not an unhealthy body composition can lead
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essay “Fat and Happy?” that in the United States‚ “a fat person’s prior identification is with fatness; as a status‚ fatness comes before religion‚ race‚ sexual preference‚ income‚ gender. Only in a society so content with doing away with fatness could it become such a distinct and negative stigma” (par. 10). Schwartz’s comment gives a brief glimpse into what could be described as the fat society; a never ending series of fat discrimination that is all in all about trying to have a better and healthier
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