NUTRITION
NUTRITION AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
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What are FATS?
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Makes up 50-70% of your body weight. Is important that your body can’t live for more than a few days without it. This nutrient has many functions, such as helping to carry nutrients and oxygen throughout the body and helping in digestion
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Found in meats and processed foods. The body needs a certain amount to:protect against cold, provide energy for muscles, provide a layer of padding between skin and muscles, and protect internal organs
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Found in grains, and vegetables. Are the main part of most human diets, and provides the body’s most important source of energy.
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Found in all meats, diary, beans, and nuts. Helps make skin, muscles and bones. They are needed to help repair damaged tissues
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Meat fat comprises mostly monounsaturated and saturated fatty acids, with oleic (C18:1), palmitic (C16:0), and stearic acid (C18:0) being the most ubiquitous. Meat and meat products are considerable sources of cholesterol in the diet.
Detailed explanation-2: -Saturated fat is mainly found in animal foods, but a few plant foods are also high in saturated fats, such as coconut, coconut oil, palm oil, and palm kernel oil. Cutting back on saturated fat will likely have no benefit, however, if people replace saturated fat with refined carbohydrates.
Detailed explanation-3: -Saturated fats. Transfats. Monounsaturated fats. Polyunsaturated fats. 01-Nov-2021
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