Let’s discuss about foods high in saturated fat – Good advice from Dr Harold “Do not be afraid of eating fatty foods, because- your body needs fat. It gives you shape, controls your temperature, helps absorption of fat soluble vitamins, among other benefits and your excess fat is stored in fat cells as triglycerides. The question is how much to eat. If you are active and exercise daily, it does not matter because fat will be utilized to provide energy. It is the sedentary individual who needs to restrict”. Fats are all composed of fatty acid chains. These are carbon atom chains linked with hydrogen atoms on either side to balance and at the two ends there are CHO molecules. Saturated fats have all the carbon atoms filled with hydrogen links, with no vacancies. So, we call them saturated. It is a type of fat that is solid at room ...

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