Sunday, March 21, 2010

Clarification

So, it was brought to my attention yesterday that people may not be familiar with saturated fat versus UNsaturated fat. I think most of you know that we want to limit the amount of saturated fat we intake in our diet, but then whats this unsaturated fat I speak of? How is that healthy?

Well saturated fat is hard at room temperature and is not essential for the body and is also loaded with cholesterol.

Unsaturated fat is actually "healthy" fat because it contains Omega-3 and Omega-6, which are broadly classified as Polyunsaturated fat. These are actually known as essential fats, meaning our body can't produce them so we need them from our diet! We really do need them....I swear. So get those double bonds in your diet and screw you saturated fat.

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