Essays Tagged: "Saturated fat"
Cost of your diet
amp; starch) calories. Of the 35% total fat calories consumed as an average, 46% of those fats were saturated fats and 54% of them were monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats.My total calorie count ... ydrates and 32 grams were fiber. Of the 259 grams of fat I consumed over three days, 120 grams were saturated fats and 139 grams were monounsaturated & polyunsaturated grams of fat. After dividing ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays
An overview on wheather or not fatty foods can impair your thought process.
journal Neurobiology of Learning and Memory; your memory can indeed be inhibited by a diet high in saturated fats. This study was conducted on a controlled group of lab rats. In which a wide spectrum ... patial ability, and rule learning were tested. Of the two control groups one was fed a diet high in saturated fat, while the other was fed a diet consisting mainly of unsaturated fats. It was found th ...
Subjects: Science Essays
This talks about how different drinks affect our bodies at a chemical level.
um." They also say that their orange juice meets the American Heart Association's food criteria for saturated fat and cholesterol for healthy people over the age of two. Tropicana orange juice is beli ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry
Vegetarianism.
tomatically make for a healthy diet. Vegetarian or not, a healthy regimen is low in cholesterol and saturated fat, it is also based around fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and lean protein. Along wit ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Chocolate's Little Secret
es contain some fat, the fat in chocolate comes from cocoa butter, "a vegetable fat that is rich in saturated fatty acids" (Shahkhalili 246). Cherri Straus, MPH, states in her article for the Blue Cro ... s, MPH, states in her article for the Blue Cross of California, "Chocolate contains stearic acid [a saturated fat], which after eaten is converted to oleic acid in the body." Saturated fats have often ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
An Insight into heart disease, prevention and treatment
ase as well as other chronic illnesses. Byrnes identifies the true fat problems as processed, polyunsaturated vegetable oils and the unnatural trans-fatty acids created during the artificial hydrogena ... xercise habits can certainly help. A simple way to accomplish this is the eat less fat, by avoiding saturated fats and lowering one's blood fat level. If lowering the cholesterol is impossible to do b ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Letter to principal, why school food is lacking nutrition.
and is not considered healthy, you need to have a definition of each. Healthy food would be low in saturated fat and containing limited amounts of cholesterol and sodium. Also, it should be rich with ... o, it should be rich with essential vitamins and minerals. Unhealthy food would be products high in saturated fat with a lot of cholesterol and low amounts of nutrients. If I wanted to pick a "healthy ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
The effects of a diet rich in saturated fats
Aim: To find out the effects of Saturated Fats on the human body.Hypothesis: That a diet rich in saturated fats can cause health pro ... bility of death.Definition: All animal fats, such as those in meat, poultry, and dairy products are saturated. Fast foods and vegetable oil are also saturated. Saturated fats are solid at room tempera ... d. Saturated fats are solid at room temperature. Saturated fats are the very unhealthy fats.Effects:Saturated fats make the body produce more cholesterol, which may raise blood cholesterol levels. Eat ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology
Recommended Daily Allowance
trients you need, and the suggested serving sizes can help you control the amount of calories, fat, saturated fat, cholesterol, sugar or sodium in your diet.2. One advantage of using the Food Guide Py ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Introduction to various biological molecules
oxygen atom, and an oxygen-hydrogen or hydroxide group).There are 4 different types of fats: Saturated fato Saturated fat has no double bond between any hydrocarbon chain and therefore ... d fat has no double bond between any hydrocarbon chain and therefore allows the fat molecule to be 'saturated' with as much hydrogen as it can hold. Unsaturated fato A fat is defined as ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
Olive or Coconut Oils? 7 pages of study notes on the differences between the two and which is better for your body
e over-eat carbohydrates, which really packs on the pounds, cause of obesity3) Specific Types of FatSaturated: Olive14% vs. Coconut 92%Mono-unsaturated: Olive 77% vs. Coconut 6%Poly-unsaturated: Olive ... ns) a day of olive oil, may help reduce the risk of coronary heart disease thanks to its high monounsaturated fat contentCarcinogens & Radicals- polyunsaturates in olives contain omega 3 and 6 fat ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Plant Biology
Health and Eating Smart
fat-soluble vitamins which are vitamins A, D, E, and K. There are different types of fats which are saturated fats found in meats, eggs, milk, dairy products, palm oil and coconut oil, all which are f ... lod your arteries which can cause a heart attack or high blood pressure. The other type of fat is unsaturated which are either polyunsaturated or monounsaturated and both can lower body cholesterol. E ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Health & Fitness
Food Journal Analysis
tary Guidelines for Americans 2005 states that most of the total fat intake "should come from polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fatty acids, such as fish, nuts and vegetable oils."I had pizza for th ... for a day should fall at less than 129 grams to not exceed 30% of total calories from fat. Now for saturated fat, the recommendation or acceptable range (in grams) is less than 40.6. This is so as no ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Health & Fitness
Food Journal Analysis
tary Guidelines for Americans 2005 states that most of the total fat intake "should come from polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fatty acids, such as fish, nuts and vegetable oils." I had pizza for t ... uld be noted that my total fat intake for the day falls within the recommended range. Good! Now for saturated fat, the recommendation or acceptable range (in grams) is less than 26.2. This is so as no ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Food Journal Analysis Three
d and unmotivated, but my mind feels like mush. There is so much more to calories than just fat and saturated fat.A person can consume about 1600 calories a day and still not consume more than 30 perc ... should be according to the recommended 20%-35% per day. A person can also consume about 16 grams of saturated fat in one day and still be below the maximum recommended amount of 10%. I only consumed 9 ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Health & Fitness
Food Journal Analysis and Personal Diet and Activity Plan
Food Journal Analysis #3A person should consume about up to or less than 10% of saturated fat. Essentially saturated fatty acids contain all the hydrogen the carbon atoms are able ... lid at room temperature, and they are more stable - that is, they do not merge readily with oxygen. Saturated fats and trans fats are the main dietary factors in raising blood cholesterol. This is ess ... nd trans fats are the main dietary factors in raising blood cholesterol. This is essentially why it saturated fats are to be consumed in such amount.As in this case, an individual aiming for healthier ...
Subjects: Science Essays
The Scientific Method
hrimp. For this serving there contained about 80 calories, 2% total fat, of which there weren't any saturated fat. They also contained about 55% cholesterol, 8% sodium, 0% sugar and fiber, and about 1 ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology