Understanding Your Fats and Fibers

Understanding Your Fats and Fibers

Tonya R. Sanford

June 21, 2012

SCI/241 Nutrition

Renita Frazier

According to “Face the Fats” the bad fats are the saturated and the trans fats, better fats are the monos and the polys fats, and the best facts are the omega-3s. (B, 2012). There have been so many illness that are blamed on fats, I don’t think there is one out there that hasn’t been, from heart disease to cancer. The bad fats have got to be limited and when you are putting them in your body you want to make sure that you are staying with the low percent. The good fats you want to make sure that you are staying on the higher percent. So in other words the bad fats have got to be 5 % and lower and the better/best fats need to be 20 % and higher. A Saturated fat is known as a fat that is a type of single-bond animal or vegetable fat. (These are mostly found in butter, meat, egg yolks, and coconut or palm oil) it is known to increase the cholesterol level in the blood. A fat having a chain of unsaturated fatty acid is known as a unsaturated fat. Trans-fatty acids are known as an unsaturated fatty acid formed by partial hydrogenation of vegetable oil that is also believed to raise the blood cholesterol levels in the body. The differences in the stability between saturated and unsaturated fats are known as hydrogenated fats. Trans-fatty acids are bad for you because they are saturated fats that your body does not need too much of. It is known to raise the cholesterol level in your blood and too much of a bad thing is harmful to your body. It is important to limit the amount of saturated fats that enter your body on a daily basis. Major functions of carbohydrates are broken down into six major functions that they help with inside the body: providing energy and regulation of the blood glucose, sparing the use of proteins for the energy, breaking down of the fatty acids and preventing ketosis, biological recognition processes, flavor and sweeteners,...