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Fats and Cholesterol

Moreover, fat tastes good. It makes food smoother, juicier, and more tender. Butter is rich in fat and has a creamy taste. We smother it on vegetables and bread. We put it on mashed potatoes. Fat makes puddings creamier and baked goods more tasty. Fat is in your refrigerator, and

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Fat Basics

not just in the butter dish. It’s in the frozen pizza and ice cream. It’s in your cupboard, in cans of soup, bags of chips, and packages of cookies. Of the 100 to 150 grams of fat Americans eat on average each day, more than 60 percent is hidden in foods. C hewing the F at When people hear the word “fat,” they automatically think of types of fat they can see, such as the white jelly-like stuff around the edges of a steak, or the rolls of jiggly flesh around a person’s belly, thighs, and arms. It’s true, those are forms of fat, but there’s much more to fat than what’s visible. Fat is the way humans and animals store energy. Fat comes from the food we eat, and we store some fat to keep us going when supplies run low. Our bodies burn fat when we need energy. It provides us with essential fatty acids that the body cannot manufacture itself. Fat also serves as a warehouse for extra calories. When the body uses up all its calories from carbohydrates, the body reaches into its warehouse to burn calories from fat. Fat makes skin healthy and hair luxurious. It insulates us from the cold and protects our organs from damage. Scan this code for a video about fat.

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