Unsaturated and Saturated fats
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Foods containing fats are most cases tasty but harmful. You may have heard that fat is also essential for body. That is truth, according to US FDA maximum fat one should take a day is 65 gram and that is for a regular person, who spend around 2000 calories. Now that is the maximum. The healthy intake of fat for a day is around 30/40 grams. Most of the people take more than that. A Big Mac in McDonalds contains 30 grams of fat. So you see the minimum amount of fat we need for body to function few of it activities are consumed by whether we like it nor not. So if somebody says, hey you need some fat for your body to run, don't pay heed to that person. If you are already overweight, it means you have excess fat stored in your body, so our main goal is to reduce fat percentage of our body, not to increase it.
Good fat and bad fat
To tell you truth, if you are overweight and thinking to lose some weight and to flatten your stomach, no fat is good for you. So instead of good and fat we may say bad and worse fat. Saturated fat is the worse fat and non saturated fat is the bad fat. When fat are termed as bad and good, they indicate what effect they have on cholesterol in your body. Cholesterol has two parts HDL and LDL. LDL is the one which helps to clog the artery and lead to heart disease. HDL do the reverse, they rather remove the LDL from artery. Now unsaturated fat lower the LDL level of cholesterol while saturated fat raise the LDL level in cholesterol. That is unsaturated fat is good fat and saturated fat is good fat. Let's look in more detail of these two types of fats.
Saturated fat
Most cases we consume saturated fat from animal products. If you like red meat and whole milk dairy products like cheese, butter, ice cream and sour cream then you are probably eating a lot of saturated fats. Saturated fats are also available in plant sources. Coconut oil, cocoa butter and in palm oil. Even if you are not a fan of these products then may be you like to eat cookies and cakes. Many commercially prepared products like cookies, cakes, chocolate are made of these products (coconut oil, cocoa butter and in palm oil). Saturated fat are solid in room temperature. If you can't avoid fat, at least try to make sure you are not taking much saturated fat.
Unsaturated fat
Polyunsaturated and monounsaturated, both are unsaturated fats. They come form fish oils, plant oils, avocados, salmon, trout, herrings, nuts. One of the major source of unsaturated fat is vegetable oils such as soybean, safflower, canola, corn, olive, canola and sunflower. These fats are liquid in room temperature. Though you will always hear that unsaturated fat is the good fat, but I want to remind you again that no fat is good for you. While unsaturated fat is not harmful for your heart, it is not good for a over weight person.