Monday, November 24, 2008

Eating to Lose Body Fat, Some Facts About Fat

By Ricardo d Argence

Anywhere you look; today you can find someone offering to sell you the latest fat loss plan or gizmo. From pills and shakes too little electro attachments all aimed at one thing the fat on your body. Sounds good, right? Eradicate fat from our bodies by burning it off or eliminating it from our diets. The problem is there is actually some fat that we need in order to remain healthy the body has a required fat content and consumption. Yes, you heard correctly.

While we are all trying desperately to lose excessive amounts of weight it is important that we understand that a small amount of fat is actually good for us. Fat cells help regulate hormones, provide energy stores, and cushion our internal organs.The problem then is not in the presence of fat but the amount. When we cross, the three percent threshold is when a necessary part of the body becomes dangerous.

When you eat there are two types of fat that you will consume. You can choose to either eat good fats or bad ones. Polyunsatured and mono-unsaturated rank among the good fats, while saturated and trans fats are harmful to the body. The latter we need to avoid while the former is an essential part of a balanced diet. The body is unable to manufacture its things like omega 3 fatty acids are essential to the human body however. Therefore, we must get it from our diet.

You don't want to have to guess which foods contain healthy kinds of fat. Instead, you need to learn which foods to eat and which to avoid. Examples of good fat foods are nuts, avocados, sunflower seeds and fish oil.

In deep fat fried foods and heavily preserved foods will be contained the kind of fat you should avoid. When we eat high levels of saturated or tran's fats we can run into health problems in a hurry a short list of examples would lood something like eggs, cheese, french fries and potato chips.

Tran's fats are really harmful for your body as they decrease the good cholestrol besides increasing bad cholestrol in your body.

Fat storage adds weight to your midsection and also has an overall adverse impact on your health. Besides having high cholesterol you are prone to the risk of having diabetes, stroke and heart attack. The simple solution is to cut back on bad fats and exercise more in order to reduce your risk of these as well as additional health problems. - 15275

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