Are you Saturated?

Monday, my dad and I went to our public library in search of nutrition facts, weight training, and anatomy books or videos. If you want to know about nutrition, the best advice I can give you is to read, and if you get a chance go to your public library do so.

Anyway, we ran across a cool video called,

Here’s to Your
Health
Nutrition:
Eating to Live or
Living to Eat
&
Obesity:
The Slimming of America

Here are a few tips I found in the video,

· If your cholesterol is too high then you could be putting yourself at risk of
kidney failure, heart attack, and strokes.

· If your cholesterol is too low then you could be risking colon cancer.

· Saturated fats, or animal fats, are solid at room temperature and examples include
beef, pork (ham, sausage, and bacon), steak, chicken, turkey, and fish.

· Chicken, Turkey, and Fish are better than the beef and pork. Dark chicken meat is
not as good for you as the white meat because it contains more animal fat.
Fish is the best choice if you can afford it!

· Oils, liquid fats, are better than animal fats and are called poly and mono unsaturated fat.
Some certain types of oils are canola, safflower, and corn. Basically, unsaturated fats are
the healthy fats. Saturated fats should be extremely limited.

· A healthy cholesterol number is 190-200 mg per deciliter of blood plasma.

· The average American’s total cholesterol is pushing around 220.