Become a Friend with Fat
Are you trauma with fat? Are you frightened with it? Do you want to avoid it? Don’t think it negatively as fat isn’t that worse as you thought. Even men’s bodies really need it.
Today fat is considered as overweight factor. It also raises illness. That point of view is not fully right. There are some kinds of fat avoided, but some of them are required by our bodies.
Maintain Body-Shape
Fat is a solid energy source. Too little fat in food consumed makes the body difficult to get enough calorie to meet daily energy and maintain fat supply. This substance is required to produce estrogen and protect bones and kidneys.
Sexual Passion Decreased
Fat helps estrogen building. If fat is drastically decreased, estrogen will be decreased. For women, sexual passion may decrease, fertility decrease, bones becoming weak, and period stop. In the effect, blood cholesterol will increase.
Healthy Skin, Hair, Eyes, and Bones
Fat makes the body able to absorb maximally, vitamin A, D, E, and K. Vitamin A is useful for healthy skin, hair, and eyes. Vitamin D is to absorb calcium for strong bones. Vitamin E is useful as great antioxidant. Whereas, vitamin K is required to build bones and blood freezing. In order to absorb those vitamins, you should consume fat 20-30 grams per days.
Provide the Essential Fat Acid
Fat provides the essential double vegetable fat acid, namely linoleat (omega-6) acid and linolenat-alfa (omega-3) acid. “Essential” means that human’s body can’t produce them. So, you must consume them. But, our bodies can change linoleat acid becoming good long-chained double vegetable fat (long choin polyunsoturotes = LCP), such as erochidonio. Besides, the body wil change linolenat-alfa acid to be ‘very good’ LCP, that is eicosapentoenoic acid = EPA, and docosahexaenoic = DHA.
All LCPs are required for growth, building cell membranes, and producing eicosonoid, which is chemical essence helping to manage some functions, such as blood freezing, blood pressure, and body protection. In order that the functions run optimally, it’s required balance of omega-6 and omega-3 fat acids.
Omega-6 is usually obtained from food you consumed. Therefore, the consumption is unnecessarily added. But, you’re suggested to consume more rich omega-3 foodstuff.
Build Cells
Fat is a part of each membrane’s structure in each cell of the body. Linoleat acid is especially important to build healthy skin and DHA to brain growth. Omega-3 and omega-6 fat acids will compete to across cell membrane. And the composition finally affects cell characteristic, as like sensitive to insulin hormone, and influences mood.
In matured-term, LCP centers in the brain, nerve cell and retina. LCP supply is very essential during pregnancy, especially the last three months when the brain growth and nerve system fast occurred. To fulfill DHA consumption, pregnant and suckle women should consume at least one or two portions of fresh water fish, salmon, or sardines every week or consume daily fish oil supplement.
Good for the Brain
The functions of normal eyes and brain depends on the membrane’s structure. A baby consumed formula milk without LCP has low double vegetable fat in his/her brain’s membranes and blood cells. A 10 months-years-old baby who is given formula milk containing LCP experiences a significant skill development. While, the other baby suckled with mother’s milk (and also receiving LCP from the mother’s milk) tends to have good performance in his/her educational levels. Moreover, low LCP in blood is found in children who get difficulties in learning, such as dislexia and less focused LCP supplement is believed to balance this condition.
Maintain Healthy Heart
You may consider that for maintaining healthy heart you must reduce the fat consumption. It’s not the problem how much you eat, but the problem is the kind of fat. Animal fat and trans fat (trans fat acid is fat made by human being contained in margarine, most toasted food, biscuits, and candies) will stimulate liver to produce more cholesterol if it’s consumed excessively. These kinds of fat will make blood more contentrated and clot easily.
Therefore, you should reduce your animal fat consumption. It’s better to consume fat in a proper portion together with omega-3 and single vegetable fat, rather than doing low-fat diet. The kind of diet will help to decrease trigliseride fat and LDL cholesterol (low-densitylipoprotein) which is usually called ‘wicked cholesterol’. Besides, it will keep ‘good’ cholesterol (HDL) in high rate. Eating fresh water fish, salmon, or sardines once or twice a week will decrease heart attack risk. You can also consume fruit and vegetables.
Being Happier
Countries whose the people consume a few number of fish have high depression level. The shortage of LCP omega-3 (or imbalanced between omega-6 and omega-3 fat acids) directs to make changes in the brain to manage serotonin and dophamin hormones in controlling moods. The harder their depressions, the lower omega-3 rate in red blood cell membrane.
Make You Enjoy Food
People think that free-fat has low calorie, so that it’s good for our health. Low-fat diet means that one-third calorie you should consume everyday resulted from fat. It equals to 20-30 grams per day. You can get the calorie from food containing ‘good’ fat. You may consume chocolate or cheesecake. It’s fun, isn’t it?
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