What the Heck Is Saturated Fat?

Most of us have heard the term saturated fat all our lives without understanding it. How can fat be “saturated?” Does that mean it’s soaking wet? And is unsaturated fat dry? And if so, is polyunsaturated fat dry in multiple ways?

Let’s clear this up right now. It’s a sin to go through life ignoring facts that could prevent a heart attack or cancer.

Fats in General

Fat molecules are chains of carbon atoms with hydrogen atoms along their sides like legs on a centipede. (Remember this. It’s the only chemistry you’ll need here.)
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Free Weight Loss Program

The majority of us start a diet, they go into it with the belief that they must keep fat intake down to a minimum, we have been led to believe fat equals extra weight, well yes but only to a certain extent.

We have been told to fill up on plenty of complexed carbs, choosing low fat high carbohydrate foods. There are certain setbacks with this attitude, one of these would be the fact that your body can and will convert carbohydrates into fat .

Carbohydrate Metabolism

When you eat carbs, you body goes to work breaking them down, converting them into glucose, glucose is a sugar molecule that is converted into energy within the cells of your body by insulin. The problem here is that after a meal based largely around carbohydrates, you will have a a lot of unusedglucose in your system. This can be harmful to you over time so your body deals with it moving the glucose out of the blood and into the cells for energy, the extra glucose that doesnt get used or infact isnt needed then goes through the process of being converted.
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Decisive Weight Loss

Making a decision is a powerful process towards achieving something. By not making a firm decision you are just floating around the edges of any goal that you want to achieve. Too many people that want to lose weight approach it in an indecisive way. They may say things like:

I should try to lose weight,
I’ll try to cut down on bad food,
Maybe I should start exercising,
I could join a gym,
Perhaps I’ll try that new diet,
I’ll start in a few weeks,

None of the above are decisions, they are just fleeting thoughts or at best weak intentions, and frankly they will not get you anywhere. Making a firm decision can be very empowering because you are making a commitment. Try this for yourself:

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Glyconutrients and Their Importance for the Health

The body needs many specific types of sugar and sugar-like substances to work properly. A group of these has been given the nameglyconutrients. This term is not used in scientific textbooks. The term is an invention of a supplement company, Mannatech, but the substances included in this group all have specific roles in the human body that are described in scientific literature.

The body has the ability to make all the glyconutrients, but there are claims that this production tend to be too slow, so that the body may get too little of them if they are not supplied through the diet. These claims are not yet definitely proven scientifically. However, many persons report health gains after having applied asupplement of glyconutrients.

The sugar type glucose is the most central gyconutrient. Glucose is used as an energy source, and it is used to produce other important substances, for example the other glyconutrients. Glucose should be supplied in a manner that allows it to be absorbed evenly through the whole day. Such an even absorption is secured by eating food that will releaseglucose gradually during the digestive process. Such a food is said to have a low glycemic index. Examples of such food types are beans, peas, full corn cereals or bread, and to a less extend potatoes and sweet fruit in natural form. Many of these foods contain starch that will gradually be broken down to freeglucose when digested.
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